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Our instructors have spent decades installing, repairing and inspecting elevators, escalators and hoists. They teach what they have done on the job.
C.E.T., EDM-F · Founder · 1936 – 2025
With more than 50 years in the elevating devices industry, Norm Benn worked in the installation and maintenance of elevators in the United Kingdom, West Africa and North America, and served as Chief Inspector of the Elevating Devices Branch, Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. As Chair of the Elevating Devices Advisory Council of the Canadian Standards Association, he helped develop national and CSA codes for the industry.
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Safety), CRSP, RHFAC · Managing Director and Instructor
Geet is the Managing Director of Norm Benn Training Centre, a role he has held since 2010. He is a safety professional and trainer in health and safety and organizational behaviour, with more than 40 years of experience across elevating devices, offshore oil and gas, manufacturing and education.
Since 1984 he has worked as a consultant in Canada and Trinidad, helping companies develop health, safety and environment (HSE) management programs. He is President of Quantum Systems 2000 Inc. and Executive Director of Training and Consulting at Quantum Synergy Canada Inc., and he has served as a safety consultant to the Durham District School Board and as Service Coordinator for the Colleges, Universities and School Safety Council of Ontario.
Geet has conducted HSE audits against international standards and developed safety programs for manufacturing, pulp and paper, mining, hospitals, law enforcement, school boards, colleges and contractors. He is a smart-ISO coordinated management system (CMS) Lead Auditor Instructor, and studied at the University of Wisconsin–Stout.
EDM-A, QEI–CEI · Elevating Devices Instructor and Supervisor
Bill is an Elevating Devices Mechanic with more than 40 years of experience on many classes of elevating devices, in Canada and internationally. He has worked in installation, repair, maintenance, inspection and testing, and has held every kind of role from mechanic to manager.
His licences and certifications include EDM-A (Technical Standards and Safety Authority); Industrial Mechanic–Millwright (Ontario); QEI–CEI Certified Elevator Inspector (ASME); Alberta Elevator Constructor (Government of Alberta); CET-S (National Association of Elevator Contractors, USA); and a Certificate of Competency (State of Florida).
Bill has been an instructor and supervisor with Norm Benn Training Centre since 1996, teaching the disciplines of the elevating devices industry and managing projects and contracts. He still works in the field — currently adjusting and certifying new machine-room-less (MRL) traction elevator installations — so what he teaches is what's happening on job sites today.
EDM-B · Instructor — Construction Hoists
Les has been involved with construction hoists for more than 40 years. As Vice President of Urban Construction Equipment Ltd. (now UCEL Inc.), one of Canada’s longest-established construction hoist companies, he has owned, supplied, designed, serviced and installed countless installations across Canada under CSA Z183, Z256, B354 and B311, on equipment from Pega, Alimak, Stros, GJJ, Scan, Tornborgs, Multilift and American Hoist.
He continues to work as an installation consultant, inspector and supervisor on international projects in the U.S.A., Bermuda, Cuba, Italy and Kazakhstan.
Les has helped shape the rules of his trade: he has been a member of the CSA advisory committee for Z185 and Z256 since 1990, served on the TSSA Technical Advisory Committee that wrote the TSSA Act of 2000 and the Ontario Regulations (1997–2000), and sat on the CECA subcommittee on construction hoists. He holds an EDM-B licence in Ontario and a C-class licence in New Brunswick.
BA, EDM-A · Instructor
Bill is an Elevating Devices Mechanic, Class A, with 34 years in the elevator trade in a variety of positions. He has hands-on experience installing, repairing, maintaining and adjusting many types of elevating devices.
A graduate of Trent University (Bachelor of Arts, Economics), Bill has mentored many new elevator helpers and mechanics, with an emphasis on safety, electrical theory, electronics, elevator performance and TSSA requirements.
He is the president of an independently owned elevator company serving locations across Ontario, and brings both the technician's and the employer's view of what a well-trained mechanic needs to know.
