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Ontario elevator report: 5 key recommendations

Ontario elevator report: 5 key recommendations | iNFOnews.ca
A sign is taped to a door of an elevator in a downtown Toronto office building on Wednesday, July 13, 2016. A report on elevator availability in Ontario is expected to be released on Thursday, along with the government's comprehensive plan to address all 19 recommendations in the study. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

TORONTO – Five key recommendations in the report by retired justice Douglas Cunningham aimed at enhancing elevator availability in Ontario:

— Require reporting of outages over 48 hours when 50 per cent of building’s elevators affected along with plan to fix problem

— Set up public database on individual elevator performance and make information on outages available to building users

— Set building code standards for minimum number of elevators in new highrises

— Ensure proper preventive maintenance is performed

— Define and measure availability as “the ability of a building’s elevating devices to transport persons as and when required”

(SOURCE: TSSA Elevator Availability Study)

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