Public Safety
Analytical Method for Defining Requirements for Elevator Rescue
by Hilkka Hämäläinen and Jaakko Kalliomäki This paper was presented at the 2022 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Barcelona, Spain. Abstract Elevator rescue situations can be classified in different...
Texas’ RICO Elevators Earns State Safety Award
RICO Elevators, Inc., headquartered in Dickinson, Texas, earned the Award of Safety Excellence 2022 from Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Texas Mutual recognizes policyholders like RICO that share its vision to...
Training Tool Helps Responders Unlock Elevator Doors
A new training tool is helping firefighters and other emergency responders in Washington, D.C., quickly unlock elevator doors to rescue entrapped passengers, DC News Now reports. Recently ordered by District...
Kings III Earns “Top Places to Work” Honor for Third Time
Kings III Emergency Communications, headquartered in Coppell, Texas, announced on November 30 it was recognized by The Dallas Morning News and Kings III employees as one of the Top 100...
Bangkok Escalator Mishap Prompts Look at Managing Commuters
Limiting the number of passengers entering crowded stations is among measures being considered by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration after 28 people suffered minor injuries on August 20 when a passenger...
Woman Dies in Escalator Fall at Music Concert in Denver
A 49-year-old woman died falling from an escalator on July 30 at the end of a Kenny Chesney country music concert at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, outlets...
Touchless Elevators
Creating safe and secure building spaces The worst imaginable place to be during the COVID-19 pandemic time was an elevator. Riding in a small space with strangers and coming in...
A Year of Progress
In this Readers Platform, your author explains handrail UV-C disinfection. by Lawrence Madanda Early in 2020, as the pandemic made its way into our daily lives, there was a dramatically...
The Use of Lifts in Offices in Social-Distancing Environments
An array of measures must be taken to guarantee personal safety. Keywords: COVID-19, social distancing, optimization, traffic handling, lobby capacity, waiting times Abstract: This paper addresses the potential remaining lift...
Top Tips for Lift Safety When Returning to Work
Managing risk in the post-pandemic office Almost a third — 31% — of Brits want their professional life to return to exactly the way it was prior to the pandemic,...
