As part of ongoing efforts to enhance public safety and ensure compliance with safety standards, Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) will impose administrative penalties for certain issues with residential elevating devices, starting June 9, 2025. 

The administrative penalties currently apply to specific non-compliances related to passenger elevators in residential buildings, including those in the following settings: 

• Rental buildings
• Condominiums
• Long-term care homes
• Student residences

The administrative penalties will be imposed when a business or an individual fails to comply with the safety requirements listed below under Ontario Regulation 209/01: Elevating Devices:

Penalty amounts for each contravention of the specified regulatory requirements are as follows: 

• Elevating device contractor - $5,000
• Licence holders or owners of an elevating device - $3,000
• Other individuals - $1,000 

Administrative penalties must be paid within 30 days. An appeal can be filed with the Licence Appeal Tribunal within 15 days of receiving the penalty notice. 

To ensure transparency of enforcement, TSSA will maintain a publicly accessible record of imposed administrative penalties. 

For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Please contact TSSA with any inquiries at customerservices@tssa.org.

The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) has issued a Director’s Safety Order on Smartrise SRA (V3 CEDES) Controllers with single door zone sensor.
 
This order applies to elevators:

• with a Smartrise SRA (V3 CEDES) traction controller;
• registered and installed using CSA Standard B44 Elevators and Escalators; and
• with a single sensor to determine position for the levelling and Unintended Car Movement Protection safety circuits.

Safety Concern
This Director’s Order addresses a safety issue that could result in serious injury or death. During a Category 5 test on a traction elevator equipped with a Smartrise SRA (V3 CEDES) controller, CEDES Absolute Positioning System, and a single door zone sensor (sensing the position 75 mm above or below a landing), a mechanic observed that a single door zone sensor (either Magnet or Optical) can fail, and the elevator may move with the doors open. The car travelled toward the nearest landing with both the hall and car doors open, before stopping at the landing. The failure of the single sensor was not detected.
 
Actions Required
All owners and licensees shall ensure that their elevators are:

• Assessed in accordance with section 2 not later than June 1, 2025; and
• Have software altered and submit a Minor A Alteration Design Submission in compliance with section 3 of this order not later than December 1, 2025, where applicable.

Elevators not in conformance with the timelines above shall be removed from service until the required actions are completed.
 
Read the Director's Safety Order for full details.

Applications submitted after February 1, 2025, without mandatory documents will not be processed

To enhance the efficiency of processing design registrations for Elevating & Amusement Devices and Ski Lifts (EDAD Ski), design registrations submitted after February 1, 2025, without mandatory documents will not be processed.

TSSA reviews designs for EDAD Ski to ensure compliance with the Technical Standards and Safety Act and any other applicable regulations or adopted safety codes and standards. 

Submitting mandatory documents along with the application is critical to ensure the timely processing of design registrations. Please ensure that mandatory documents are complete.

Click the button below for a list of mandatory documents for EDAD Ski design registrations.

EDAD Ski Safety Program
Technical Standards and Safety Authority