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Stronger Together
by Dot Mynahan Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Association (OSHA) formed an alliance with elevator industry leaders to address worker safety and health issues, which included the prevention of workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses.
Focused on Success
photos by Scott Eastman When your author caught up with Paul Horney IV, CEO of elevator fixture manufacturer Innovation Industries, it was on the tradeshow floor on September 26 — the last day of the United Convention & Exposition in Atlantic City — and Horney was anxious to get back to company headquarters (HQ) in Russellville, Arkansas, before the effects of Hurricane Helene started being felt.
New Blueprint for Urban Mobility?
Beltways®, a first-of-its-kind modular accelerating walkway, is being developed by brothers Matine and John Yuksel in Hebron, Kentucky. The Yuksel brothers relocated the company, Beltways, near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) to develop an accelerating walkway originally conceived by their father, Edip Yuksel, in his native Türkiye. As a freshman at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Edip Yuksel conceptualized a modular, pit-less accelerating walkway.
Fujitec Modernizes Its Longest Escalator in Japan
submitted by Fujitec Fujitec Co., Ltd. has modernized the longest Fujitec escalator in Japan at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo), the largest international exhibition hall in Japan. This escalator is 45 m long and 22 m high, equivalent to the height of a six-story building. Fujitec is modernizing the escalators installed at Tokyo Big Site to maintain safety and enhance functionality.
Escalator Brake Failure Investigation
by Anthony Boom Most everyone has heard the saying, “Accidents don’t ‘just happen.’ They are caused by the actions or inactions of one or more people.” I know I heard that saying many times in nearly every safety meeting I attended in my career. But I have also found the statement to be true from experience investigating escalator accidents.
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