Safety

Toward Smart Elevators – the KLEEMANN Experience

With Four Innovations: Passenger Emergency Detection (PED), Electronic Shaft Measurement (ESM), G-Braille Elevator Assistance System for Visually Impaired People and Information on Safe Environment (ISE) by Dr. Giorgos Georgiadis This...

Pit Safety System

This Product Spotlight focuses on a system designed to mitigate the top three causes of pit accidents. submitted by ECI America ECI America offers a complete pit safety system appropriately...

Change for the Better

In this Readers’ Platform, your author talks about how safer pit ladders are coming due to 2022 A17.1-B44 code. by Margaret Lourenço The ASME A17.1-2022/CSA B44:22 Safety Code for Elevators...

A Balancing Act

The Conflicts Between Cybersecurity and Functional Safety by Tijmen Molema This paper was presented at the 2023 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the rapidly evolving landscape...

Keeping Lifts and Escalators Safe Is a Process

Dear readers, The safety of lifts and escalators is a process; when it works properly, lifts and escalators are safe. Starting with the proper design, this process continues with the...

Safety in Elevators: A Comprehensive Guide to Vertical Transportation Safety

by Tolga Göktaş In the hustle and bustle of modern urban landscapes, elevators have transcended their role as mere mechanical devices, evolving into essential components of our daily lives. These...

Safety for Lifts

Selçuk Gençol & Muharrem Bilge Çakırer Following the lift accidents that have occurred in our country in recent months, the reliability of lifts has become a subject of discussion again....

Raising Elevator Safety to New Heights

Maharashtra’s comprehensive regulations and laws are detailed. Maharashtra, one of India’s most populous states, is home to countless high-rise buildings and commercial establishments. With the increasing number of high-rise buildings,...

Technology Upgradation and Safety

Reducing the scope for human error by adopting new-age progression In an age marked by unprecedented technological advancements, it is important to harness the power of innovation to enhance safety...

Technology Upgradation and Safety – A Few Grey Areas

Upgradation is a continuous process, and innovation should remain a priority. In line with all-around developments in various fields, elevator technology is also getting upgraded from time to time. In...

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Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus

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Unsworth Joins LML Lift Consultants Senior Consultant

This July will mark 40 years since the beginning of Wurtec; image courtesy of Wurtec

Wurtec Celebrating 40th Anniversary

HydraSafe surveyed 17 elevators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with partner Claddagh, which will be providing a control system for single-plunger code compliance; photo by Hugo Schneider for Wikipedia.

HydraSafe Brake: NYC Training, a Move and a New Hire

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Hotels Prepare to Implement Recent Elevator Code Revisions