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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:
- Elevators being,
i. freight elevators, ii. freight elevators-P, iii. hand-power freight elevators iv. observation elevators v. passenger elevators, vi. sidewalk elevators, vii. temporary elevators, and viii. limited use/limited application elevators.
- Dumbwaiters being,
i. dumbwaiters, other than hand-power dumbwaiters, and ii. hand-power dumbwaiters.
- Escalators.
- Moving walks.
4.1 Shopping cart conveyors.
- Freight platform lifts and material lifts, being,
i. freight platform lifts - Type A, ii. freight platform lifts - Type B, iii. material lifts - Type A, or iv. material lifts - Type B.
- 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.
- Manlifts, being,
i. counter-balanced type manlifts, ii. endless belt type manlifts, and iii. power type manlifts.
- Passenger ropeways, being,
i. above-surface ropeways, whether circulating passenger ropeways such as chair lifts or gondola lifts or reversible passenger ropeways such as aerial tramways, ii. surface ropeways such as bar lifts or ropeways made of fibre or wire, iii. ropeways for secondary carriers such as tube tows, or iv. conveyors.
- Construction hoists, being,
i. material construction hoists, ii. workers’ rail-guided construction hoists, and iii. workers’ rope-guided construction hoists.
- 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.
- Stage lifts.
- Special elevating devices.
- Parking garage lifts.
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