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DOB explains elevator inspection process and self-certification pilot
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Deputy Commissioner Shamash details the DOB's elevator inspection process, including annual and five-year inspections, repair requirements, and a new self-certification pilot program.
- Annual inspections include periodic and category one tests, with more intensive category five tests every five years
- Unsafe conditions must be repaired within specified timeframes, often without DOB follow-up inspection
- A pilot program allows self-certification for repairs and new elevator installations in single-elevator buildings
Yigal Shamash
3:44:32
In terms of elevator inspections and compliance, we do have annual inspections that are required for elevators, both periodic and what we call a category one test.
3:44:45
And then every five years we have
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
3:44:47
a more
Yigal Shamash
3:44:47
intensive test, a category five test for those specific elevators.
3:44:53
If there are unsafe conditions found, those have to be repaired within a specific amount of time that's specified in the law and the rule.
3:45:02
Depending on the level of the repairs, the majority of times they can perform those repairs without a follow-up inspection from us.
3:45:14
However, if there is an upgrade or a new elevator being put into service, then we will have to perform an inspection.
3:45:22
Recently the department did launch a pilot program in terms of self certification, in terms of the repairs and in terms of the installation of the elevators, new elevators.
3:45:37
For single elevator buildings and multiple dwellings We are allowing the elevator companies to self cert that final inspection which means the department does not need to perform the inspections ourselves.
3:45:53
They just have to notify when those inspections are and we can audit those as we see fit.