Regulated Safety Services

Elevating Devices
Elevating Devices

Our 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.

Devices that we're responsible for include elevators, escalators, moving walks, lifts for persons with physical disabilities, passenger ropeways, construction hoists and ski lifts.

To view the complete list of regulated elevating devices below, click here.

We review and register elevating device designs, conduct initial inspections and license devices when they conform to the Act, Elevating Device Regulation and adopted safety codes and standards. On existing elevating devices, we conduct periodic inspections based on a risk-based cycle.


List of regulated elevating devices made under the Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000:
  1. Elevators being,
    i. freight elevators,
    ii. freight elevators-P,
    iii. hand-power freight elevators
    iv. observation elevators
    v. passenger elevators,
    vi. sidewalk elevators, and
    vii. temporary elevators.

  2. Dumbwaiters being,
    i. dumbwaiters, other than hand-power dumbwaiters, and
    ii. hand-power dumbwaiters.

  3. Escalators.

  4. Moving walks.

  5. Freight platform lifts, being,
    i. freight platform lifts - Type A, and
    ii. freight platform lifts - Type B.

  6. Lifts for persons with physical disabilities, being,
    i. stairchair lifts,
    ii. enclosed stair platform lifts,
    iii. unenclosed stair platform lifts,
    iv. enclosed vertical platform lifts, and
    v. unenclosed vertical platform lifts.
  7. Manlifts, being,
    i. counter-balanced type manlifts,
    ii. endless belt type manlifts, and
    iii. power type manlifts.

  8. Passenger ropeways, being,
    i. bar lifts,
    ii. chair lifts,
    iii. gondola lifts,
    iv. reversible ropeways, and
    v. ropetows.

  9. Construction hoists, being,
    i. material construction hoists,
    ii. workers’ rail-guided construction hoists, and
    iii. workers’ rope-guided construction hoists.

  10. Incline lifts, being,
    i. incline elevators,
    ii. incline dumbwaiters,
    iii. incline manlifts,
    iv. include construction hoists,
    v. incline freight platform lifts, and
    vi. funicular railways.

  11. Stage lifts.

  12. Special elevating devices.
TSSA Update: Elevating Devices Safety Edition - Spring 2008
TSSA Media Release: Sudbury Company Guilty of Elevator Violation
Procedure for Testing Emergency Power
Director's Order: 223/08-r1- Inspection of structural welds on elevating devices manufactured by Uni-Tech Elevator & Lift Inc. or Liftech Elevator Co.
TSSA INSPECTORS NOT AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION MARCH 17, 18 & 19, 2008
TSSA Media Release - Move with the Grooves: All the Ups and Downs of Elevating Safety
TSSA Update:
Elevating Devices Safety Edition - Spring 2007
Director's Order: Oil Loss Monitoring of Hydraulic Elevating Devices with buried cylinders or buried piping
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