Tai Yat Elevator Maintains Over 1,300 Lifts; Previously Fined $80,000 by EMSD for Inadequate Supervision

Tai Yat Elevator (Hong Kong) Limited maintained over 1,300 lifts as of mid-year this year, and its website was suspended yesterday. According to the Gazette, the company was disciplined by the EMSD Disciplinary Tribunal in 2019 for failing to supervise engineering staff in maintaining the traction machine gearbox and failing to provide adequate instructions during lift maintenance at Hang Hing Building on Fuk Wa Street in Sham Shui Po in 2016. It was fined $80,000 and ordered to pay about $75,000 in inquiry costs and a total of about $57,000 to the Department of Justice and the EMSD.