Report IDA - SSC Webinar - Review
3 Incident Cases in Lift Installation & Control Measures for Preventing
Similar Occurrences
The webinar was organized by the Safety Specialist Committee (SSC)
at the HKIE Headquarter on 17 November 2021.
The webinar was very successful with 1190 registrants for a limit of 500
and the turned out was about 450 members joining the webinar.
Speakers Ir KL Lee and Ir SW Yip shared three overseas lift
incidents with the audience. Namely three
cases were “Worker Falling into
Lift Shaft”, “Worker Crushed by Falling Car Cage” and “Worker Crushed at Lift
Pit between Car Cage and Pit Ladder”, from which fatal result was caused.
In order to prevent lift accidents, two speakers suggested to 4M1E,
i.e. Man (Training, instructions,
awards, punishment, promotion, discipline, supervision),
Machine (Construction of machine & tools, development & adoption of
specific tools, etc.), Material (Design, production & assembling locations
of materials), Method (Development,
improving, adoption of safe working methods and/or procedures) and Environment (Working environment, temperature, ventilation,
lighting, noise, facilities, equipment & procedures, 5S, dangerous area
markings, ergonomics, etc.).
In view that two lift cases were involved with the use of bamboo / steel
scaffolding inside the lift shaft for installation / modernisation work. Scaffoldless method is therefore recommended
for workers working inside lift shaft.
Scaffoldless method could be of guided-safe-working-platform (SWP, commonly known as false car),
platform lift, completed car, etc.. Actually the guided-SWP has already been
acceptable by Labor Department / EMSD of HKSAR and is popularly used in the
lift industry while the robotic method (nobody working in lift shaft) is under development
in the lift industry.
On behalf of the SSC, we would like to express our sincere gratitude
to Ir KL Lee and Ir S W Yip for their valuable contribution and sharing of
experience in safety management for the HKIE members. Ir Lee and Ir Yip not only gave a very
attractive presentation to the audience with many animations but also shared
some insights to enhance the lift safety in the industry.