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Otis SA Award (continued) DoL LEPCR Workshop @ Lethabo PS
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ‘Vriende vir Altyd’
Local Independent Lift Supplier of Note ...
Regulatory Health & Safety News ...
Local News and Reviews - ‘Pilitieke Korrektheid’ Lift Service Provider Quality
From Bonnie Peden’s Pen - LIASA 6th June Meeting
From Willem du Toit’s Desk : Reporting Mix & Match
Origin of South African ‘Biltong’
Doyens of the SA Lift Industry ...
Unite ESS Engineering Surveyors Bulletin (UK) TUT Lift Regulations Courses for 2018 LIASA 2018 General Meetings - Jeppe Quondam LIASA - Website - LIASA Contact Details
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ESTABLISHED JANUARY 2003
July 2018 Journal No.131
TECHNICAL EDUCATION COMMUNICATION NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Chairman: Ronnie Branders; Dep/Chair: Clifford Kleinhans;
Treasurer: David Kleinhans; Secretary: Ms Bonnie Peden; Exco: Peter Murray; Bruno Isler; Mickey Martin; Hennie
Hudson.
DOYENS OF THE LIFT INDUSTRY: Buddie Ceroni (2004)†; Schalk v/d Merwe (2005)†; Dr Theo Kleinhans (2006
& 2011); Willem du Toit (2008 & 2015); Bruno Isler (2009 & 2016); Alfie da Silva ((2010); Manny Perreira (2010);
Peter Murray (2012); Sanjeev Singh (2013); Rodney Coetzee (Post. 2014)†; Billy Clifton (2014); Mickey Martin (2017
PAST & CURRENT CHAIRMEN: Steve le Roux (1995-7)†; Dr Theo Kleinhans (1997-2003); Ben Peyper (2003-6)†;
Sanjeev Singh (2006-15); Ronnie Branders (2015 -)
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS: Eddie Cook (2017); Mannie Perreira (2017);
Educom
LI FT I NSPECTO RS ASSOCI ATIO N OF SOUTH AFRI C A - ES ABLI SHED 1996
Otis South-Africa receives PMR.africa award with Diamond Arrow level,
outstanding 1st overall elevator brand in the market.
Otis South Africa has received the 2018 PMR.africa award this year with a Diamond Arrow (highest grade overall), after a survey conducted in 2017 across 150 customers and project managers.
The award was remitted in presence of the major construction and engineering actors of the country and marks an outstanding pro-gress about the brand perception in continuation of last year’s award for which Otis SA qualified for Gold level. The reward also marks a testimony from the local industry that recognizes our brand reputation and the progress in our business transformation and service accomplishment compared to other suppliers. Continued Page 2 >
South Africa Reaches new heights
Despite Otis Elevators ser-vicing the tallest buildings in South Africa and in fact the world, they have now reach-ed new heights in South Afri-ca with this latest 2018 PMR.africa award Daniel Daphne, Otis Africa MD who represented the group at the award event with Loueen Jones, Africa HR Director (centre), with Nicolas Branly, Service Director (right) and Amyn Benyekkou, Sales, Mar-keting & Business Development Director Africa (left).
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PMR.africa is an independent survey body and has complet-ed its annual national survey on the suppliers of elevators, escalators and lifts using criteria’s that are based on the per-ceptions of the respondents about ability and flexibility to accommodate changes, Black Economic Empowerment en-gagement (BEE), competitive pricing, maintenance levels, quality and reliability of equipment, technical expertise, safety records and service responsiveness. The surveyed panel covers a random national sample of customers repre-senting construction companies and maintenance managers in the universe of hotels, shopping centers, office and apart-ment blocks, airports, government buildings, urban develop-ment projects and renewal projects in South Africa.
“ it’s a team achievement and a recognition to be proud about, but we still have to continue proving our service and business transformation to the market ...”
says Daniel Daphne, Otis Africa MD who represented the group at the award event with Loueen Jones, Africa HR Director , Nicolas Branly, Service Director and Amyn Benyekkou, Sales, Marketing & Business Development Di-rector Africa.
O T I S H I S T O R Y
“Think globally, act locally.” This phrase, though the brainchild of the worldwide environmental movement, is a perfect fit for Otis. After 160 years, Otis is United Technol-ogies’ most global operation, with more than 64,000 em-ployees serving customers in nearly every country on earth. From humble beginnings in Yonkers, New York, to the worldwide industry leader it is today, Otis’ long history is a testament to ... safety, service and performance.
O T I S : A V I S U A L T I M E L I N E
What do the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, the Washington Monument, Madrid’s Royal Palace and Japan’s first sky-scraper have in common?
Otis Elevators! In many ways, Otis’ history mirrors the history of the mod-ern built environment. Take a few minutes to explore the
world through Otis. See our visual timeline.
For more information go to Google and click in on …
http://www.otisworldwide.com/d31-timeline.html
On Friday 22nd June a very positively rewarding workshop was held courtesy ESKOM, at Lethabo Power Station’s training center. The theme was …
‘How safe is the transportation of people & goods within South African buildings.’
The workshop was hosted by DoL Pretoria HQ, with Direc-tor Jakes Malatse and Deputy Director Hlaks Monyaki in attendance. The Programme Director was Mr Bill Murphy. A formal welcome to the 100 attendees was made by Lethabo Station Manager Mr Conradie. A special vote of thanks was passed by all present to Power Station Engineer Mr Eugene Ferreira for coordinating the venue. Thank-you also to Schindler Lifts for a mini lift drive and controls expo and Draper tools, with the latest equipment on the market. SEIFSA and NOSA also had sterling presentations.
Transcripts of the various presentations have been promised to be available on the DoL website around mid July. Please note that you will require a special code to download the presentation, obtainable from Mr Monyaki. Presentations were made by …
‘Transitional arrangements for goods hoists’ - Mr Hlaks Monyaki
‘Possible standards to be considered for incorporation into the LEPC regulations’ - Miss Leratho Magalo
‘Impact of incorporation of SANS 50081 : 20 & 50 - Mr Bruno Isler
‘Impact of AIA’s in the Lift Industry’ - Mr Lawrence van Rensburg
‘Lift Inspector qualifications and QCTO require-ments’ - Mr Sanjeev Singh
‘New lift and passenger conveyor installations and the role of contractors’ - Miss Jackie Gokamilwe
‘CIDB requirements’ - Mr T Malope
‘Roadmap of the Lift Industry’ - MR JP Malatse, where Mr Malatse broke somewhat with convention and delivered a very sterling report on the current state of our lift industry and where we need to go to maintain safety of lift users as an absolute priority. He made a point of advising the ‘Industry’ that we need to work with DoL to achieve this as it is our national collective responsibility … not just DoL’s alone!
SOUTH AFRICA AWARD DOL LEPCR WORKSHOP @ LETHABO POWER STATION
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GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
For more information contact : ‘SignFlow Digital Team’ …
‘VRIENDE VIR ALTYD …’
Soos elders in hierdie joernaal waar José Carrera se lied bespreek word, verstaan ons as Afrikaners baie goed wat ‘amigos’ beteken. Om dan onwillekeurig terug te dink aan vervloë dae se suksesse en vriende, is ewe self-verrykend. Jy word bewus van keuses met verskillende gevolge en resultate wat jy deur jou lewe gemaak het, veral met bevorderings en verhuisings wat onomwonde tot jou sukses bygedra het ... hoewel dit meestal stresvol was. Nou besef ‘n mens dat die ou lewe maar net ‘n aaneenskakeling van keuses was, veral waar hierdie besluite onder mentorskap van senior kollegas plaas gevind het.
Terwyl ek so rustig in my motor terugkeer van die Oos Kaap deur die dorre Vrystaat vlaktes, sê ek in stilte dankie aan my Skepper dat ek sulke vriende en mentors gehad het. Dankie dat ek nou op my oudag nog rustig in my motor na strelende musiek kan luister en geniet. Om ook aangename herrinneringe te kan opdiep uit vorige mentor skakelings en samesyn, is ‘n absolute voorreg.
Geothe, die Duitse digter het gesê: “Herrinneringe is die enigste ware paradys waaruit niemand op aarde jou kan verdryf nie”. Hoe ouer ‘n mens word, hoe meer word hierdie stelling waar omdat soos ons beweeglikheid deur ouderdom ingeperk word, soveel minder word ons onderlinge skakeling met mentors en vriende.
Gelukkig is daar hulpmiddels soos die telefoon en inter-net kuber skakeling om nog uitdrukking te gee aan ge-voelens vir mekaar en waardering te betuig vir aange-name wisselwerking in vervloë dae. Daarom is ‘n groot dankie geregverdig aan hulle, vir ons gelukkige samesyn oor die jare heen. Ons leef al meer in ons eie herrinner-ings paradys, wat tot in lengte van dae sal bly bestaan, met ook die aandeel van ons vriende en mentors onafskeidbaar daarin deurgeweef.
Vir goeie kollegas; goeie vriende en jagmaats; goeie gabbas; goeie familie, kinders en kleinkinders … moet ons aan almal erkenning gee. Laaste maar nie die minste nie, ‘n dankie aan ons Skepper vir elke donker nag wat met dagbreek weer vir ons sin gemaak het ... vir die vriende en werkskollegas wat Hy op ons lewens-pad gebring het - Vriendskappe wat oor die jare heen deur genade en sëeninge werklikhede geword het … Ons is genoop om saam te stem met Confusius dat ons her-rineringe al hoe meer al is wat ons aan die verlede verbind ...
Amigos para siempre!
The protection of consumers' personal da-ta is a hot topic at the moment, with the European Union's stringent new data pro-tection regulations - the GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation - becoming offi-cially enforceable last week. While this is a European-borne regulation, South African companies are by no means off the hook. In fact, now more than ever it is crucial for local organisations to make sure they have all their i's dotted and t's crossed when it comes to data protection policies - especially in light of the looming Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act. Experts agree technology will be absolutely key here. Software systems that offer auto-mation, content management and enter-prise resource planning will become a life-line for many companies in their quest to comply. Read more about GDPR D-Day last Friday, and what it means for you as a South Afri-can organisation, HERE.
Amigos … Friends … Colleagues ...
“I have friends in overalls, whose friendship I would not swap for the favour of kings of this world”
Thomas Edison (1890)
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ECONO HOME LIFTS +27 (0) 44 873 2934
www.econohomelifts.co.za
Two new lifts installed in George
Econo Home Lifts can be de-signed, manufactured and in-stalled to fit in unobtrusively with your home finishes, where there is no inkling of a thought that opening this door leads to the lift, as seen below.
The aesthetic finishes are most certainly above average for a home lift, but still do not cost an arm and a leg! Ser-vice contracts are available for all the main centers in South Africa. All it requires is a phonecall to obtain a cost-effective quotation.
Lifts for the disabled can be custom designed to fit any reasonable application, as this photo shows. The door entrances are wide enough to allow for electrical driven wheel-chairs. Note the rustic finishes of ‘The Lofts’ build-ing, that were catered for in the design, as was the dual side-adjacent entry door-ways. The structural steel and glass was all locally supplied to conserve cost, including their requisite certification for the lift commissioning documentation.
Seen below, is a totally weather-proof external appli-cation, with the shaft support
steelwork and glass all designed and equipped locally. The design of the car and shaft both illus-trate a complete ‘obser-vation-type’ application, that not only allows in ample light during the day, but also at night.
As can be gleaned from the design, the glass and steel motivates for low-cost maintenance and is certainly pleasing to the eye and l-o-n-g lasting.
Large & small food dumb-waiters are equally a speciality, as this car with roll-up door demon-strates. The large glassed landing swing door makes for easy loading and off-loading. The glassed shaft (arrow) was designed as a building feature, likewise all for local supply
SCHINDLER - LATE LOCAL INDEPENDENT LIFT SUPPLIER OF NOTE
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UK HEALTH & SAFETY NEWS
Simple Dock-Leveller Causes Fatality
The June edition of the UK Engineer Surveyors Section Bulletin (Lift & Crane Inspectors), again underlines the need for more regular risk assessments with goods transport equipment, no matter how simple the applica-tion or how menial the task. The example cited states ...
“Courier company DHL has been fined £2 million over the death of a worker at one of its depots. Kryzystof Sontowski was crushed between a lorry and the wall of a docking bay as workers manoeuvred it so that the rear of the vehicle was in the correct position. Possibly from lack of preventa-tive maintenance, the unit was sticking, resulting in the 36-year-old jumping up and down in an attempt to get the dock leveler to properly line up. The company had earlier admitted to two criminal safety breaches and was fined this week by Judge Francis Sheridan, sitting at Aylesbury Crown Court.
Judge Sheridan was critical of the fact that no risk assess-ments for WHAT TO DO if the dock leveller was not in place properly. He stated that similar problems having oc-curred in the past ... the alarm bells should have been ring-ing. That was the central failing in this case. He added:
“The accident occurred because there was no risk assessment done and further, it was wrong that the system had been allowed to develop.”
DHL was fined £2 million and ordered to pay £100,000 costs. The prosecution was brought by Milton Keynes Bor-ough Council’s health and safety department. A civil suit brought in by the family had been settled out of court.
TUC Hails the ‘Huge Difference’ made by Safety Representatives
The TUC has praised the lifesaving impact of safety rep-resentatives in Britain’s workplaces. TUC general secre-tary Frances O’Grady said:
“A network of 100,000 safety reps work tirelessly to make sure employers follow the law. Over the last 40 years they have therefore made a huge difference to the UK’s workforce health and safety.”
She added that trade unions have campaigned to make (the UK) workplaces safe for as long as they have exist-ed. She consequently urged anyone worried about health and safety at their workplace, to join a recognised union.
The TUC leader was commenting on 28 April, International Workers’ Memorial Day.
Employers need to provide more High Quality Apprenticeships
to boost the UK Economy
‘Not enough employers are stepping up to the plate to provide high quality apprenticeships to combat the UK’s skills’ shortages’, UNITE said today (Friday 13 April). Unite was commenting on the Reform think-tank’s study which claimed that low skilled (operator) jobs are being rebranded as apprenticeships so that employers can gain the engineering industries’ training subsidies.
Sounds familiar for South Africa ... (Ed)
Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail said ...
“Unite has consistently supported high quality apprenticeships of which there are many good ones across a myriad of industries, such as en-gineering, construction and aerospace. Regret-tably, there are some unscrupulous employers who are exploiting the levy system - These practices need to be stamped on hard.
UNITE, alongside many metal and engineering industry employers, believe that the recognised three year plus apprenticeships enable young people to hone their skills in these specialist trades. There may still be a place for a 12 month (lesser-skilled) apprenticeship in some non-engineering sectors. But on behalf of young UK people especially, it is believed that all sectors should be more ambitious with employing and training of apprentices.
We cannot agree more for South Africa, especially in the metal engineering industries, and even more especially in the Lift Engineering Industry. We can remember some 25 < 30 years ago when Otis had 145 apprentices in South Africa; Schindler had 105; Melco had 65 and Sabiem/Kone had 45!
Since we are down memory lane, do you remember the top recognised trainers in those dynamic lift en-gineering development years of Dave Bevan and Tommy Martin of Otis; Arthur Adams and Peter Grob of Schindler; Robbie Coslett of Melco, and last but not least, Harry Christodoulou of Sabiem. They were all members of the elite LEASA Education and Training Sub-Committee.
They were richly supported by such hands-on tech-nical boffins as Buddie Cerone & Schalk van der Merwe; Bruno Isler & Mike Barley, who were all members of the SEIFSA Metal Industries Education and Training Sub-Committee. Editor
REGULATORY HEALTH and SAFETY NEWS
“There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out ...”
“Avoid the friendship of those who constantly inquire and discuss the flaws of others ...”
Russian Proverbs ...
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LIFT SERVICE PROVIDER QUALITY
At the June LIASA general meeting at Jeppe Quondam, a re-spected senior peer colleague stated a truism which I wish to restate and in fact re-inforce … We tend to refer to especially the multi-nationals’ service quality, whether good or bad, as the domain of that particular company in setting the industry benchmark for service quality. The peer colleague however laid this valedictory success at the feet of particular service techni-cians, of whom only a handful still remain. These lift service technicians truly stand out way above the rest because of their attitude towards their job and their belief in themselves. Grant-ed, the employing lift company disseminates the environment under whose governance that service is rendered … but it’s the culture of a particular lift service technician that motivates his personal quest for quality during his tenure of service on that specific contract.
The above photo taken very recently, is of a 57 year old Otis installation in the Free State midlands. Originally a Schindler Ward Leonard installation, it was modified by Otis some 20 years ago. Since then Jaco van Niekerk serviced the installa-tion, maintaining almost constant zero defect. He proves the engineering maxim that a quality product, properly installed and commissioned, and above all preventatively maintained …
extends the useful life that installation by at least a decade!
Noticeably, Jaco served under the watchful eye of Willem du Toit in Pretoria, where he was taught the ‘old values’ of ‘customer service excellence’ as we in turn had been taught. Realising his potential, Willem transferred Jaco as District Rep to Sun City, from where he was promoted to Free State Mid-lands Representative over 2 decades ago. Give credit where credit is due … just a pity that there are so few Jaco’s left in the South African Lift Industry.
LOCAL NEWS & REVIEWS
POLITIEKE KORREKTHEID
Politieke korrektheid in Suid Afrika kom in beginsel daar-op neer dat alles in die laaste tyd so aangebied moet word dat niemand aanstoot neem nie. In die praktyk is dit amper soos om met rugbytoks op vrot eiers te loop en steeds na parfuum te probeer ruik … dit is net nie altyd moontlik nie.
Die ouer garde meen dat ‘politieke korrektheid’ bloot toe-gepaste valsheid is. Ander reken dit weer as ‘n doktrine wat maar net ou voordele vervang met nuwes. Persoonlik dink ek dat sulke positiewe vroomheid nogal ‘n oulike idee is, maar ek dink nie dit sal ooit werk nie. ‘Politiek’ bly politiek en gee voor om te wees wat dit nie is nie!
As ‘n man byvoorbeeld by die Ingenieursraad geregistreer is om sekere hyser ingenieurswese oudits bevoegd te be-oefen, beweeg hy korrek solank hy binne die kodes van praktyd en gedrag beweeg. Dan kom die politiek-georiënteerde regerings wetsgeleerders wat bepaal dat jy sommer nou ook dat jou bevoegdheid geakrediteer moet word om te doen wat jy reeds die afgelope drie tot vyf dek-ades lank professioneel doen sonder daardie ‘akreditasie’.
Volhoubare kommersiële hyserinspeksies is myns insiens ’n belangrike ingenieurs erkende meganisme waar hyser installasies gereeld getoets moet word om sodoende bevoegd gesertifiseer te word om mense te mag vervoer. Die bepalings waaronder hierdie evaluasie uitgevoer moet word is legio … ’n horde van regulasies en standaarde wat jy verbatim moet ken en na kan verwys in jou breedvoerige verslae aan beide die kliënt en hyser diensfirma.
Dit is ’n wetlike vereiste om die nie-konformerende items korrek te defineer vir regstellende korrektiewe aksie op jou verslag. Jy kan nie sommer meer ’n ding wil sê soos hy is omdat jy reken dit konformeer nie! Jy kan dus nie jou stel-ling bloot op die ware feite grond nie. Jy is genoop om eer-der katvoet te praat as jy polities korrek wil wees, met ’n netjies geplaveide draai sodat niemand eksepsie neem nie.
In hierdie kammaland van gesteriliseerde stellings is dit absoluut onaanvaarbaar om na enige onderskeid van dienskwaliteit, quantum hyser onderbrekings of selfs die geslag en ontwikkeling van die hyser tegnikus te verwys wat hierdie swak diens lewer nie. Jou verslag moet so neu-traal wees dat dit feitlik ontbloot word van die werklikheid, anders neem die diensfima of eienaar weer eksepsie.
Dit bekommer my nogal oor die laaste paar weke, want as ek so na die huidige prioriteite van wetstoepassing kyk, kan die gevolge ernstig wees. Ek kan selfs vervolg word vir ondermyning van die sosiale orde, ten minste aangekla word by die Ingenieursraad of regerings ombudsman wat toesig hou oor ingenieurs en hul hyser inspeksies. Jou reg-istrasies and akreditasies wat jy so duur voor betaal het ... kom dan nou in gedrang … of hoe?
Met verskoning aan Willem Wikkelspies, wonder ek tans wat om “te doen … of nie te doen nie - dit is die vraag”.
Dr Theo Kleinhans .
MEMORIES ...
“Life is made up of memories, so make them whilst you can, for one day it will be all that you have … these Memories”.
Confucius …
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LIASA MEETING 6TH JUNE
25 members attended the general meeting at Jeppe Quondam, chaired by Mr Ronnie Branders. Of note was the extensive discussion regarding SABS retaining the control and issue of Lift Industry standards. LIASA welcomed this decision following on communications last year that this would in future be governed by DoL.
The down side is that the costs of these standards has now more than doubled as invoiced last week. It was decided that the Chairman, Bonnie and Dr Kleinhans request a meeting with SABS to negotiate a reduction in fees. Of importance is that SABS control the stand-ard itself, whilst DoL control the annexure comprehen-sive reports, since these are incorporated into the OHSAct LEPCR by DoL.
OHSAct 60-Day Grace Period on Comprehensive Report Non-Compliances
An extensive discussion involved most of the members present as regards the lift service providers’ corrective action. The concern was raised as to the apparent leth-argy of these service providers to remedy the non-compliances listed by AIA’s. The discussion guessti-mated that more than 50% of annexures issued to the service providers (obviously only those with non-compliances logged), do not get attended to. This re-sults in the comprehensive report becoming invalid af-ter the 60-day grace period.
Now comes the crunch …!
Nothing gets done about it, so technically the lifts are running illegally. Sanjeev Singh’s article in a very re-cent Educom, highlighted that the September 2010 OHSAct amendment places responsibility for this cor-rective cation requirement, fully and squarely on the shoulders of the owner or user. LIASA feel that the governance of this requirement must be carried out by DoL, where the Chief Inspector of Occupational Health and Safety is responsible as per ministerial edict. Cli-ents already take umbrage at having to pay the inspect-ing AIA’s a 60-day follow-up fee.
This corrective action is then exacerbated where the AIA often has to return to the installation on two and three visitations to inspect the lift for compliance, not to mention the communications and re-issue of the annex-ures. The Chairman suggested that this be brought up again at the 22nd June DoL Workshop.
LIASA Deputy Chairman Stands Down
Deputy Chairman Mr Eugene Ferreira, on request from his employer, advised that he was standing down with immediate affect. After a short explanation, Mr Clifford Kleinhans was nominated and appointed for the dura-tion of the LIASA business year.
LIASA congratulates Clifford on his preferment. He has served on the LIASA Excom for several years now, as well as savouring his appointment by TUT as the Lift & Escala-tors Regulations and Standards lecturer for the past two years. Clifford presently serves on the special LIASA sub-committee assisting with the upgrading of the latest lift standards and their review.
FROM BONNIE PEDEN’S PEN - Answering LIASA inquiries ...
LIASA FACEBOOK
In view of the escalating inquiries for information and advice, I have considered the best option to be a LIASA technical ‘Facebook’.
RLIS’s can in future be more transparent in their inquiries, since I am sure that more positive results can then be obtained from our industry specialists - especially on the technical side where some RLI queries require searching the SANS standards for a technically correct reply. At least try it ...
Bonnie Peden
INSPECTION TOOL CALIBRATION
AIA’s and RLI’s in the Gauteng area can have their inspection equipment calibrated at reasonable cost and delivery within a week through …
Malcolm Whiting of ‘Current Techniques’ Mobile: 083 289 5843 Tellefax: 086 671 5481
You drop and collect at his workshop just of Solomon Mahlangu in Garsfontein, Pretoria
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FROM WILLEM du TOIT’S DESK : Reporting on Mix & Match of Standards
As we know, the compilation of such a standard was nev-er started, never mind completed. Lately it seems that our local manufacturers had stopped manufacturing these lifts. Now however, these lifts get imported on a larger scale …
And still we do not have a standard for them.
In conclusion ... we cannot mix and match standards without exemptions from DOL.
The following is the front page of a typical exemption
issued for these types of lifts and this exemption cov-
ered 13 different areas of the relevant standard.
Lifts which do not fully comply with a specific South African National Standard has been a problem since the inception of National Standards in South Africa in 1994. Specifically I refer here to the so called “Elevettes”, “Home Lifts”, “Domestic Lifts”, “Disabled Person Lifts” and other names.
In the industry there was always a tendency to mix two standards to ac-commodate these types of lifts; SANS 50081-1 and SANS 1545-4. Alt-hough both these standards are in our schedule of lifts in the LEPC Regu-lations, it simply cannot be done because the scopes are entirely different, as well as the comprehensive reports to be used for each type of lift .
In the early 1990’s when this happened, DOL (in earlier days known as the Department of Manpower) issued prohibition notices on these units and the users had to apply for certain exemptions from the then SANS 1545-1.
Late Ben Peyper always assisted the manufacturers with these types of lifts and the relevant exemptions to apply for. In the meantime while we had to deal with this problem, Ben made all efforts until his untimely death to get a standard in place which will cover these locally manufactured lifts.
Bruno Isler’s presentation @ the DoL Workshop @ Lethabo PS
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By Dr Theo Kleinhans
With the onset of Winter, for many South Africans it signals hunting and biltong time. Always aware of the Greenpeace Parade, we believe it to be our heritage to hunt, inheriting the urge from our Huguenot forefa-thers. To the uninitiated, ‘biltong’ is nothing more than preserved and dried meat, mostly venison.
You have surely heard the South African song of ‘sun-shine, biltong, rugby and Chevrolet’, which more or less sums up the situation perfectly. Lawrence G Green in his book “In the Land of Afternoon”, defines biltong as the most well known food from the veld, and that the Cape (Colony) produces the most nour-ishing and tasty biltong in the country. The older Transvalers like myself disagree, for most of us hunt in the Polokwane Aldays district with its prodigious regal Kudu and Impala. The German Southwestener (Namibian) hunters would again claim their regal Gemsbuck to reign supreme. We guess that it all comes down to a matter of personal preference.
Brought up during the war years in the Namaqualand Richtersveld (Knersveld), springbuck and gemsbuck were the staple diet for most farmers, vegetables tak-ing a back seat in this arid semi-desert region where they are difficult to grow. Also in abundance was the Namaqua-sandgrouse (Kelkiewyn - photo below), which regardless of this dry region, bred by the thou-sands. Very much like the British quail (only larger), they offer very tasty breast fillets. A good morning’s shoot would produce some fifty grouse, which plucked and cleaned, were pickled in Grandpa Andries Cornelissen’s special brine mixture. This consisted of 3 liters water to one liter red vine-gar, to which was added half a cup of course salt; a quarter cup of saltpeter; a tablespoon of pepper and a cup of burnished coriander. Mixed well, an un-peeled potato is then added … it immediately sinks. Leave the mixture for half an hour, then stir again. Gradually as the SG (specific gravity) of the mixture rises, so the potato rises. When it floats by late after-noon, the brine is ready. Place as many Kelkiewyn in the mixture as the cask will hold and leave overnight. The next morning their breasts can be filleted out and strung up to dry. This ‘white biltong’ is most sought after today but very scarce in supply. Over the last few seasons, bag limits are now mandatory.
The word biltong is derived from the Netherlandic word bille, which denotes a leg of venison. Joined with tongue to be descriptive of the cuts of tongue-like venison that was strung up to dry, the word biltong was derived. Des-patch reports from the old Cape of Good Hope already defined this absolute tasty and palatable meat called biltong, which was sent back in case-loads to Europe.
Until the early nineties, each hunter mixed his own bil-tong spice, which consisted mostly of coarse salt, salt-petre, brown sugar, pepper and coriander. The percent-age mix varied from hunter to hunter. The selected cuts (mostly fillets and rumps), are laid in a plastic tub and sprinkled liberally with the spice-mix. A mixture of red vinegar and Worcester sauce (at 15:1) is then sprinkled equally liberally and allowed to lie for between 8 and 12 hours (usually overnight) before hanging them up to dry.
The Americans have a parallel delicacy called jerky, which in ‘cowboy-days’ was made mostly from bison(buffalo) venison. Higher north in Canada, this was called pemmican, also made from buffalo venison. Low-er in South America, the Chilians named their venison charqui. This applied mostly to their game antelope of vikuna, alpakka and lama.
During my earlier years in the old Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi and Kenya, the local indigenous hunters spoke of chakwe, which appears to have been introduced by the visiting South American Roman Catholic missionar-ies. The South African Zulu in turn talk of mkweba, in Setswana as segwapa and in Northern Sotho golola.
My late peer colleague from Schindler Switzerland, Dr Peter Haffner, always took delight in having his local hertz Bündnerfleisch (European reindeer) on his home-cook menu when I visited him. His son Dr Andre Haffner, on his regular visits to South Africa, is lately always on the lookout for local game biltong, which he claims, outranks anything that Europe has to offer.
REASONS for SUCCESS
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persis-tence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success”
Dale Carnegie .
SOUTH AFRICAN ORIGIN of the word ‘BILTONG’
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DOYENS of the SOUTH AFRICAN LIFT ENGINEERING INDUSTRY
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AMIGOS PARA SIEMPRE … ‘friends for life’
Travelling back from the central Free State last week, I was listening to José Carreras’ rendition of ‘Amigos para siempre’. For no apparent reason I thought back to the colleagues (rather than friends), whom all had a positive influence on my devel-opment as a lift engineer. Their names rolled out almost like a role of honour. Although most of these doyens of the South African lift engineering industry have passed on to higher service, you may perhaps remember some of them …
The Founders of LEASA … In the 1960’s Chairman René Hassler (Schindler), Elton Möller (Otis), Pat Hindley (Mitsubishi) and Jack Ligeti (Sabiem) consummated the LEA. They certainly put the South African Lift Industry on the map in a professional way. These doyens must have mentored many young achievers. Perhaps you are one?
DoL Inspectorate … In the late 70’s I was invited by Gus Weich, Chief Inspector for occupational health and safety, to serve on to his ‘Select Advisory Committee’, with the idea to amend the old 1941 Factories and Machinery Works’ Act. This culminated in the 1984 MOSAct. What a positive motivation to sit around a table with these regulations’ gurus!
Gus was succeeded by Mr Aggenbach and again Andre de Villiers for the old South Africa. Then in 1992 the old Gov-ernment Inspectors were put out to pasture and replaced. The present incumbents are Messrs Tibor Szana (Chief Inspec-tor), Jakes Malatse and Hlaks Monyaki, who still chair this committee of regulatory upgrades today.
ECSA (Engineering Council) Lift Peer Committee … With the advent of the New South Africa, ECSA were charged by the Hon. Minister of Labour Tito Mboweni, with setting up a peer group of recognised lift engineers and engineering technicians, with the responsibility to formulate a new level of ‘Registered Lift Inspector’. Noted committee members were Jan van Wyk (former DoL Provincial Director - chairman), Laurie Squair, Paul Alan, Steve le Roux, Ben Peyper, Schalk van der Merwe, Bruno Isler and Theo Kleinhans. They paved the road on which all RLI’s must walk to get regis-tered today. For over two years we worked together as a professional group, with our employment companies never en-tering the equation … like it does today.
SABS Lift Standards Technical Committee … At the same time as the 1993 ECSA mandate, the Hon. Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Irwin, also mandated SABS to introduce a Technical Works Committee to introduce the latest European lift standards in line with the expected OHSAct (No.85 introduced in 1993) promulgation. Chaired by Lituang Wang, this committee again consisted of the same lift field engineering representatives ...
Dr Theo Kleinhans as chairman of LEASA at the time, was attending an international conference in Switzerland, where he met his European counterpart Jules Strébel. Bruno Isler having met Jules earlier at Schindler Ebikon, had explained the RSA’s unique position with the anticipated introduction of the European EN81 Standard for lifts in South Africa, so Bruno set up the meeting between Jules and Theo in Ebikon. Needless to say that Theo was able to hand deliver a hard-copy as also IT disc gratis to Dr Verster of SABS on his return, with Europe’s blessing that SABS, as a quasi-government institution, have full use of the standards locally at absolutely no cost.
Inauguration of LIASA in 1995 … With all the happenings in the Lift Industry, especially the expected introduction of RLI’s who would legally carry out the DoL lift and escalator inspection requirements. It became obvious that a profes-sional representative association be set up within the ECSA Code of Practice, to take over the stewardship of all regis-tered lift inspectors. Thus on a Saturday afternoon on the front stoep of the late Steve le Roux’s Eikenhof home, LIASA was consummated. Steve le Roux was nominated and elected as the inaugural chairman, with Theo Kleinhans as secre-tary. With Steve’s untimely passing, Theo took over the reigns, handing over to Ben Peyper after several years. A young energetic up-and-coming Sanjeev Singh took over the chairmanship after Ben’s likewise untimely passing (in fact in the entrance lobby of SABS where he was to attend a Standards TC meeting). Such was the metal of these old warhorses … always at the helm and serving their industry. It is no secret that Sanjeev remained chairman of LIASA for 9 years, be-fore handing over to Ronnie Branders, the present incumbent.
Schindler Lifts’ Executive Directors … René Hassler remained MD of Schindler for a mammoth 42 years. With Heinz Althaus as Technical Director, they served together for 37 years … both these terms of office being the longest in SEIFSA (Steel Engineering Industry Federation). Wonderfully, I worked under both of these absolute lift gurus as my mentors for approximately 33 years. It was Heinz who sent me on my first journalism course, followed by graduate stud-ies at Stellenbosch and Pretoria universities. Possibly I have put something of this experience back into the Educom. I may say that these absolute gentlemen contributed the most significantly to my career. It engendered in me the obligation to in turn mentor many male and female colleagues throughout my career, of which over a dozen obtained degrees and graduate diplomas, ending at the TOP! Such was the nature of our industry … we stand and fall together!
As José Carreras’ song came to an end, it left a feeling of melancholic enchantment. It is at such gratifying moments that you realise your term of stewardship in the various offices speedily drawing to a close, but you’re not afraid for you are satisfied with a job well done. I can only suggest that you savour each milepost achievement in your life, for these personal successes become memories of achievement to fall back on … been there and done that you may rightfully say.
Soon, before you realise it … as Confucius stated … these memories will be all that you have left.
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UNITE ESS ENGINEERING SURVEYORS BULLETIN
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Extracts from the June edition of the Unite Bulletin UK Engineering Surveyors Association
(Special Conference Edition)
Light Hearted Humour
An estates manager for a large institution told me of his deal-ings with a major lift manufacturer. A breakdown call was put through to the lift company early in the morning. The client again called the lift company late in the afternoon ask-ing why an engineer had not been to site. The lift company explained that they had accessed the lift controller remotely, had reset the fault and the lift should be back in service. The client replied …
“How that can be, when the car doors are still hanging off!”
“Unite ESS joins the digital age! It was not always easy for the producers of our Unite ESS branded items to make use of the various ESA logos we have on file, so this year we have joined the new world and we have had a digital version produced. This is a combination of the Black & White and Colour versions which we have used previously;
We hope it meets with your approval.”
Our South African Lift Engineering Industry should take note of the UK engineering surveyors (registered engineering in-spectors) forming their association as long ago as 1914 ... Then bringing out their own dedicated inspectors’ journal in 1933 … Really makes us infantile by comparison ... (Ed)
Particularly striking is their motto that ‘Surveillance means Safety’. Educom generally quotes the ‘First Law of Quality’ … that ‘What gets measured, gets done!’ Is this not what safety audits and compliance inspections are all about … en-suring safety through statutory compliance.
A Conference guest speaker David Young from AE, deliv-ered his topic of ‘Lone Working’. He defined … “A person is working alone when there is no responsible person present who has knowledge of the work or work place and who are available to respond effectively to unusual occurrences or emergencies.”
“From this definition, Engineer Surveyors can in most situa-tions be considered to be working alone. Lone working, while not a hazard in itself, exposes the Engineer Surveyor to in-creased risk arising from existing site hazards or hazards associated with the tasks we undertake.”
This is no less true in South Africa where some inspections are often in the bundu or outback areas. It is also no secret that lift service technicians working alone without helpers, are at an even greater risk. Several lift industry fatalities over the past decade could most probably have been negated or even averted, had the technician had a helper at hand.
Following a Q&A session, David finished his presentation with the following statement:
“Under NO circumstances should an Engineering Surveyor work alone in unoccupied premises.”
Seen above is Dougie Gilligan - Chairman and Confer-ence Convenor, and Geoff Hayward, co-convenor and Na-
tional Secretary of the UK engineering inspectors.
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TUT LIFT REGULATIONS COURSES IN 2018
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LIASA CONTACT DETAILS
Bonnie Peden - National Executive Secretary
Office: (011) 907-0133 - Telefax: (011) 907-0131
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website Address: www.iliasa.org.za
PO Box 531, Alberton, 1450
EDUCOM COMMUNICATIONS
Educom’s contact logistics, where you speak to … The Editor - Bonnie Peden
Office: (011) 907-0133 Telefax: (011) 907-0131
E-mail: [email protected]
PO Box 531, Alberton, 1450
Please forward us your newsworthy articles and photos for dis-sémination to all our colleagues around the RSA.
Articles contributed to Educom are evaluated by ECSA as CPD, assisting you to achieve your minimum 5 points per year, avera-ged out over 5-year rolling periods. Remember that …
« Ignorance of FACT is NO excuse for any stated non-compliance »
« Liberty means responsibility - That is why most men dread it »
We are on the Web - go to …
www.iliasa.org.za
Remember that this web is gratefully maintained by Sanjeev Singh for the members’ benefit.
LIASA 2018 MEETINGS
General Meeting - Wednesday 8th August @ 09:00
By 30th September please submit … - Nominations for Chair & Deputy Chair
- Nominations for National Executive Committee - Nominations for Merit Awards - Nominations for Doyen of the Year award.
Annual Gen. Meeting Wednesday 10th October @ 09:00
All above meetings to be held at Jeppe Quondam
ASPIRANT LIFT INSPECTORS ...
Please take note of the next courses this year ...
2nd to 6th July 2018 @ TUT
Examination on 21st July
5th to 9th November ... Go to our web for more info request directly from me …
“Short Learning Program (SLP): Lift Regulations – Prep-aration for Registration with ECSA”:
· Application form to be completed (remember to at-tach a copy of your ID document) · Course information
Please take note of the following:
1. Please note that each course will consist of only 20 candidates, meaning early response is necessary. 2. We will inform you as soon as the courses are full. For any further enquiry please contact us ...
Mariska Swartz
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Industrial Design (B3-329)
TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TUT) Private Bag X 680, Pretoria, 0001
Tel: +27 12 382-5164
Fax: +27 12 382-5602
E-mail: [email protected].
LIASA in 1995, to qualify for ECSA (Engineering Council) recognition as a ‘Voluntary Association’ (VA - Article 21 Association), formal Articles of Association were required, along with a formalized membership structure. These were drawn up by founder members Dr Theo Kleinhans and Steve le Roux. Steve was elected as Chairman of the National Exec-utive Committee in Gauteng, with Theo as Executive Secre-tary-Treasurer; Mike Russell as Regional Chairman Western Cape and Graham Mould as Regional Chairman Eastern Cape. Natal and the Free State were vacant at that time ...
EDUCOM EDITORIAL TEAM
Dr Theo Kleinhans - LIASA Ex Officio - Editor Ms Bonnie Peden - Nat. Exec Secretary: IT & Layouts
LIASA Nat. Exec. Chairman - Ronnie Branders LIASA Excom & Contributor - Willem du Toit LIASA Excom & Contributor - Peter Murray
LIASA Ex Officio Past Chairman - Sanjeev Singh
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