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Committee updates elevator and escalator safety rules to current ANSI/ASME standards
Summary
The committee approved updates to elevator, escalator and moving-walk rules that incorporate updated ANSI/ASME codes, remove duplicative requirements, and streamline approval processes for alternative technologies.
The House Business Committee approved docket 24-3940-2401, a rules package for the Elevator Safety Program that updates by-reference codes to current ANSI/ASME editions, removes duplicative inspection language, and simplifies the process for approving alternative or new technologies.
Justin Touchstone, trades program director for the Building Construction and Real Estate Bureau at the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, presented the docket and described broad stakeholder engagement. “This is another rule chapter that went through ZBR. The Board…
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