Elevator U

If you attended the 2010 EU Conference at Purdue and are in need of a certificate for either the .8 Continuing Education Class or for the presentations that were given during the regular sessions please send the website committee an e-mail.

The NAEC Education Committee has reviewed your Continuing Education Application for the Elevator U 2010 Annual Conference. We are pleased to inform you that the committee has approved the educational content at a total value of 4.0 CET contact hours and 2.0 CAT contact hours for Continuing Education.

• Elevator Modernization Team Effort (Gregory)  @ 1.0 CET contact hrs
• What’s New is the 2010 Elevator Industry Field Employees’ Safety Handbook (Hendrick) @ 1.0 CET/CAT Safety contact hr
• Future Serviceability Options for Today’s MRL Elevators (Thran) @ 1.0 CET contact hr
• Emergency Communications & Code Compliance (Dietz) @ 1.0 CET/CAT contact hr

E-mail us if you need a certificate.

The Conference Planning Committee and Board of Directors would like to thank you for attending the 2010 Elevator U Conference this past week! It was a great time and we appreciate Jeff Cooper, Purdue University, offering his campus for the conference.  Jeff has hosted many conferences including the first two back in 1998 and showed how first class Purdue University is.

Listen to what Mike from the Unversity of Alabama had to say.

The Board would like to offer a special welcome to our new board members, Steve Pydynowski , Wayne Koepke and Martin Culp. We’d also like to thank Matt Wright and Brad Haldeman for their hard work in making Elevator U a better organization.

In the upcoming weeks we’ll be editing and uploading the presentation videos onto the website. We’ll also be sending out an e-mail with the attendee list shortly.

Continuing Education Session Participants – Please note that we will be sending out the necessary documentation to NAESA, EIWFP, the State of Indiana and the State of Illinois by the middle of next week. Certificates will be e-mailed by the end of next week. We appreciate your participation and hope those who attended had a great time.

Thanks once again to everyone for making the 2010 EU Conference a success.

Sincerely,

Elevator U BOD & Conference Planning Committee

June 11th, 2010 will mark the date that the “Rise Up Safe Rider” was launched. After countless hours of student input and collaboration Colleges and Universities now have a great safety program that is easy to implement. 

Rise Up Safe Rider University Program
An Elevator, Escalator and Moving Walk Safety Guide for University Students

• Aimed at students on university campuses – an at-risk group
• EESF’s newest safety program
• Developed with the help of university students and the Elevator U organization

Click here to download the Planning Guide
Click here to download the Elevator Poster
Click here to download the Inside Elevator Poster
Click here to download the Escalator Poster
Click here to download the Moving Walk Poster
Click here to download the Rise Up Safe Rider Brochure
Click here to download the Rise Up Safe Rider Public Service Announcement
Click here to download the Article for Student Publications
Click here to download the Press Release for Student Publications

National Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week - www.eesf.org
A promotion of Elevator, Escalator and Moving Walk safety for the public

• Celebration takes place the second full week in November each year
• Program developed to increase elevator escalator safety education awareness
• Program introduced in 1994 and since has expanded in virtually all locations to an audience of over 12 million riders
• Program expanded to include Canada in 2006
• Detailed “How To” Planning guide is available free of charge for volunteers
  
  Click here for more information about Safety Week.

May 10, 2010 - The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation announces the creation of four new positions on its Board of Regents.  The recruiting committee has put forth the suggestion that the Board create four regents and alternate positions specific to the following industries: Insurance, Public Transit, Universities and Schools and Building Owners/Managers. These positions will be vacant unless filled specifically by the representatives.

The goal of this initiative is to create a strong Board of Regents to oversee the running of the Foundation from the perspective of the vertical transportation industry as well as those industries that rely heavily on the equipment.

Join us in the Recruit for Safety campaign!  Do you have an interest in helping EESF spread the word on Elevator and Escalator Safety? Do you know an industry member that would be a perfect fit? EESF is actively seeking nominations for individuals to fill the positions. Nominations for suitable board members may be sent to:

Don’t miss out on this rewarding opportunity!

The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was created by the elevator/escalator industry to develop and disseminate safety materials to the public in order to eliminate preventable accidents on the industry’s equipment. For more information, visit:  www.EESF.org

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Ashley H. Rains

After a massive spam bot attack on our forum it was taken down three months ago. Sounds like some kind of sci-fi movie.  Over the weekend an update to the software which included some additional antispam features hopefully will prevent this from happening in the future.  All users and board posts were removed and so where the users so if you were registered before you’ll need to go back and re-register.

Visit www.elevatoru.org/forum or click the link in the right hand colum under EU Links and you’ll find it.