PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – “The proposal to reduce the frequency of mandatory semi-annual and bi-annual inspections on elevators to one year and three years is something we absolutely disagree with.” This is what Salvatore Nasca, a Palermo entrepreneur who has been in the industry for more than 35 years and co-founder of the “Consortium for Italy,” a nonprofit organization to which more than 120 companies in the elevator sector belong, tells Italpress news agency.
The proposal of some South Tyrolean MPs envisages amending Presidential Decree No. 162 of April 20, 1999, thus moving to annual inspections for elevators, biennial inspections for hoists, and from two to three years those of the super partes body, appointed by the owners, which is in charge of safety verification.
“The Consortium for Italy is fighting to stop this havoc! The safety of more than 50 million people is at risk,” Nasca says. “Among other things, we are talking about saving a handful of euros per family. It is a choice that cannot be justified. Remember that Italy is the second country in the world with about 500 accidents in a year and that about half of the elevators present, more than 500,000, can be considered obsolete, so checks should be done even more often. The elevator is to all intents and purposes a means of transportation, as the decree itself says, and so at a time when there is so much talk about a points license and increasing safety in all areas to halve the controls would be nonsense.”
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