a. Safety (1) Identify job hazards (2) What proper safety equipment to wear and use (3) Common-sense safety around elevators and escalators (4) Fundamentals of first aid and MSDS information (5) Avoiding electric shock, GFCI's (6) Codes that apply to the elevator industry b. Print Reading (1) Read prints (2) Survey the hoistway for new installation and modernization (3) Convert to meter equivalents c. Handling Materials & Tools: Rigging & Hoisting (1) Safety Procedures (2) Properly handle and store elevator/escalator equipment (3) Tie and identify knots, bends and hitches (4) Safety procedures for hoisting heavy equipment (5) Building a safe working platform & scaffolding (6) Use all safety devices d. Pit Structures (1) Safety Procedures (2) Introduction to the pit components and their purpose (3) Install pit equipment: buffers, compensating sheaves, compensating ropes and chains (4) Testing of pit equipment for proper operation e. Guide Rails (1) Safety Procedures (2) Prepare rails and rail runs (3) Build templates, drop lines and plumb hoistways of single, multiple or corner post installations (4) Install guide rails (5) Use a rail gauge and align rails f. Machine Room, Escalator & Overhead Installations (1) Safety Procedures (2) Layout and properly align & set equipment (3) Properly align sheaves, tracks and gears (4) Offset roping (5) Calibrate and test (6) Proper inspection and maintenance procedures for the equipment g. Car & Counterweight Assembly & Roping (1) Safety Procedures (2) Assemble car and counterweight sling (3) Why elevators use counterweights (4) Proper handling & storage of wire ropes (5) Plan a rope run and learn other methods of installing and reroping h. Wiring Installation (1) Safety Procedures (2) Terminology for various tools and electrical equipment (3) Plan and install raceway and conduit (4) Bend conduit (5) Plan wiring and pulling wires safely and efficiently (6) Accurately prepare and install traveling cables (7) Bonding and grounding equipment (8) Prepare the elevator/escalator for running operation i. Door Installation (1) Safety Procedures (2) Proper terminology for doors and relating equipment (3) Install car and hoistway entrances and door equipment accurately (4) Install & adjust elevator doors, gates for passenger, freight & dumbwaiter j. Hydraulics (1) Safety Procedures (2) Drill a hole for a hydraulic jack (3) Properly install and plumb the casing & jack with specific tools (4) Layout a pipe run and connections to power unit and jack (5) Hydraulic theory and valve operation (6) Adjust the valves for proper operation (7) Troubleshoot and isolate system problems

a. Basic Wiring/Electricity (1) Procedures for working safely with electricity (2) Principle on which all electrical concepts are based (3) What is electricity and where does it come from? b. Solid State Electronics/Relay Logic (1) Safety Procedures (2) Terminology and safety equipment used on electronic devices (3) Binary & hexadecimal systems are related to digital circuitry (4) Capacitors and capacitance are used on elevator equipment (5) Inductance and inductors are used in circuits (6) How a semi-conductor works (7) Diode, zener diodes, photodiodes and light emitting diodes (8) Understanding transistors and how they operate (9) How SCR's are operated and used in elevator circuits (10) Various digital gates and their function (11) The functions of integrated power supplies (12) Different configurations and uses of the Op Amp (13) Relay logic c. Circuit Tracing/Relay Logic (1) Safety Procedures (2) Read a wiring diagram symbol and apply it to the equipment on the job (3) Sequence of operation of individual circuits such as starting, stopping car and hall call cancellation and direction selection (4) Troubleshot particular circuits that are malfunctioning (5) Locate and repair electrical problems such as ground, opens, defective contacts and coils (6) Troubleshoot electrical problems with confidence

a. Reroping, Recabling (1) Safety Procedures (2) Inspecting for defective rope, selector tape & cable (3) Staging and routing ropes, tapes & cables (4) Shackling and socketing b. Door Operator & Relating Equipment (1) Safety Procedures (2) Passenger & freight door, gate repairs and replacements (3) Door Operators, repair, replace and adjustments (4) Door protective devices and troubleshooting c. Traveling Cable (1) Safety Procedures (2) Repair and replacement of traveler in existing hoistways d. Motors, Generators, Bearing, Sheaves, Drivers (1) Safety Procedures (2) Cleaning and lubrication (3) Testing and replacing motors, generators, bearing, sheaves, and drivers (4) Turn and undercut a commutator (5) Test shunt and series field coils (6) Learn how to check bearings and replace e. Escalators, Moving Walks & Similar Equipment (1) Safety Procedures (2) Repair/replace equipment (3) Clean and lubricate (4) Maintenance on equipment