Elevating Devices: Standard
Publisher/Sponsor:
Technical Standards and Safety Authority (Ontario) (TSSA)
The Elevating Devices (ED) Safety Program is responsible for regulating the safety of more than 43,000 elevating devices in Ontario under the Technical Standards & Safety Act 2000. TSSA reviews and registers elevating device designs, conducts initial inspections and license devices when they conform to the Act, Elevating Device Regulation and adopted safety codes and standards. On existing elevating devices, TSSA conducts periodic inspections based on a risk-based cycle.
Regulated devices include:
Elevators being,
- freight elevators,
- freight elevators-P,
- hand-power freight elevators
- observation elevators
- passenger elevators,
- sidewalk elevators, and
- temporary elevators.
Dumbwaiters being,
- dumbwaiters, other than hand-power dumbwaiters, and
- hand-power dumbwaiters.
Escalators. Moving walks. Freight platform lifts, being,
- freight platform lifts - Type A, and
- freight platform lifts - Type B.
Lifts for persons with physical disabilities, being,
- stairchair lifts,
- enclosed stair platform lifts,
- unenclosed stair platform lifts,
- enclosed vertical platform lifts, and
- unenclosed vertical platform lifts.
Manlifts, being,
- counter-balanced type manlifts,
- endless belt type manlifts, and
- power type manlifts.
Passenger ropeways, being,
- bar lifts,
- chair lifts,
- gondola lifts,
- reversible ropeways, ropetows.
Construction hoists, being,
- material construction hoists,
- workers’ rail-guided construction hoists, and
- workers’ rope-guided construction hoists.
Incline lifts, being,
- incline elevators,
- incline dumbwaiters,
- incline manlifts,
- incline construction hoists,
- incline freight platform lifts, and
- funicular railways.
Stage lifts.
Special elevating devices.
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