Local News in Brief : Disputed Elevator Test Policy Dropped
The Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission decided Tuesday to drop a controversial 1985 policy that required manufacturers to submit electrical elevator parts for safety testing but voted to review the policy again in a year.
Building and Safety Department officials had already stopped enforcing the stringent policy.
The testing policy resulted in backlogs in the city lab, Frank Kroeger, general manager of the department, reported. “We feel that the policy was overly ambitious,” he said, “and we have not seen any unsafe conditions” under the old policy of on-site visual inspections.
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