California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 6 - Elevator Safety Orders › Group I - Administrative Regulations › Article 4 - Qualifications for Certified Inspectors › Section 3003 - Qualifications for Certified Inspectors

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Employment. Applicants shall be employed
						by a licensed insurance company carrying insurance on elevators or by a
						municipality which maintains an elevator inspection organization operating
						under ordinances or rules at least equivalent to the Elevator Safety Orders of
						the Division of Industrial Safety.
Applicants may be examined prior to their employment if
						  sponsored by an insurance company or a municipality by an agreement to employ
						  the candidate if he is successful in the examination. However, no certificate
						  will be issued until the applicant is actually employed as an elevator
						  inspector.
(b) Experience.
						Applicants shall have had at least four years of experience in some mechanical
						or electrical endeavor at least one year of which shall have been in the
						design, construction, installation, repair or inspection of elevators.
The nonelevator, mechanical, or electrical experience
						  shall be at the journeyman mechanic level or technical work and the work must
						  have been comparable to work in the elevator industry.
Engineering education on a college level may be
						  substituted on a year-for-year basis for the nonelevator qualifying
						  experience.
The one year of required elevator experience may be on
						  the basis of continuous employment for one year in which at least half of the
						  applicant's time is devoted to elevator work.
(c) Training. Immediately prior to the
						examination, the candidate shall have completed at least 90 days of intensive
						training in elevator inspection in California under the direct supervision of a
						certified elevator inspector.
This training period may be waived prior to the written
						  examination; provided, however, that no certificate shall be issued until the
						  candidate has been employed and satisfactorily completed the prescribed
						  training period.
(d)
						Performance of Duties. A candidate shall be of good character, free from
						disabling defects, and possessing sufficient agility to perform his duties
						safely and efficiently.
(e)
						Certificates. Certificates of competency may be revoked by the division, after
						a hearing, for failure to submit true reports concerning the condition of an
						elevator, or for conduct deemed by the division to be contrary to the best
						interests of elevator safety or of the division.
Certificates may also be revoked, after a hearing, when
						  physical infirmities develop to a point where it appears that an inspector can
						  no longer perform his duties in a thorough and safe manner.
Certificates may be suspended by the division, after a
						  hearing, for periods up to six months for infractions not deemed serious enough
						  to revoke the certificate.
(f) Frequency of Inspection. Certificates
						will be automatically suspended if, for a period of one year, an inspector does
						not make any elevator inspections as evidenced by reports submitted; however,
						such certificates may be reinstated without a written examination at the
						discretion of the division.
This provision does not apply to the supervising
						  engineers or others whose regular duties include the review of the work of
						  other certified inspectors.
(g) Examination. The examination shall be
						conducted in two parts; the first consisting of a written examination and the
						second consisting of a field examination.
If the applicant fails to obtain a passing grade in
						  either the written or field examination, he may apply for a re-examination and
						  the waiting period between examinations shall be determined by the division as
						  not less than 30 days or more than 6 months, depending on the judgment of the
						  division regarding the necessity of additional study and training on the part
						  of the applicant.
The field examination may be waived or postponed by the
						  division and the certificate issued subject to field examination. This field
						  examination may consist of a formal assignment related to elevator inspection
						  or it may consist of an appraisal of work of the inspector during an indefinite
						  probationary period.
(1) Written
						examinations will be conducted by appointment at any time mutually agreeable to
						the candidate and to the division. these examinations will be conducted in the
						office of the division, either in San Francisco or in Los
						Angeles.