After deficiencies were exposed last year, the agency is looking to private firms to run construction license exams.
OSHA is issuing a new letter stating that all highway and road construction workers must wear high-visibility apparel regardless of whether the MUTCD requires them.
OSHA revised the steel erection compliance directive for the agency's Steel Erection Standard to change two enforcement policies related to tripping hazards and installation of nets or floors during steel erection.
The document recently published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration addresses the control of worker exposure to dust containing crystalline silica, known to cause the lung disease silicosis.
The Department of Buildings will share information about tower cranes with Chicago and Philadelphia in an effort to track equipment failures, manufacturers’ recalls, accidents and industry trends, officials said on Thursday.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) expressed a variety of concerns focused on the failure to reference widely accepted national voluntary consensus standards addressing crane safety in the proposed updated federal Cranes and Derricks in Construction Rule in testimony by ASSE professional member Matt Burkart at a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) public hearing.
The Buildings Department released a report on Wednesday confirming findings of an earlier criminal inquiry that last year’s fatal crane collapse on East 51st Street was caused by the improper use of polyester slings to raise a large crane component.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently announced a new A10 Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) standard project to protect the safety and health of workers involved in construction and demolition operations for wind generation/turbine facilities.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, ruled that in the case of Elaine Chao v. Summit Contractors, OSHA regulation 29 C.F.R. Sec. 1910.12(a) “is unambiguous in that it does not preclude OSHA from issuing citations to employers for violations when their own employees are not exposed to any hazards related to the violations.”
An official admitted that he helped unqualified people win union membership and licenses to operate cranes in New York City.
At the annual Build Safe New York conference, Mr. LiMandri announced a 41-point plan to overhaul how “high-risk construction” is regulated and carried out in New York City.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold an informal public hearing on the proposed cranes and derricks in construction standard published in the Oct. 9, 2008, edition of the Federal Register (73 FR 59713).
A new site safety partnership among government, employers, labor and the building trades is designed to minimize hazardous conditions and enhance safety and health for 40 contractors and more than 350 employees working on the Shangri-La New York project in midtown Manhattan.
Manhattan prosecutors are expected to announce manslaughter charges on Monday against the rigger who was overseeing the raising of a tower crane on the East Side last year when it collapsed, killing seven, according to people briefed on the case
district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, described an avalanche of failures by the city, contractors and other government agencies as he unveiled manslaughter and other charges against three construction supervisors and a subcontractor in the deaths.
After recent negotiations and a complex investigation that lasted more than a year, prosecutors scrutinizing last year’s fatal fire at the Deutsche Bank building in Lower Manhattan have narrowed their focus to the possible criminal liability of handful of construction supervisors and the companies they worked for.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that it will extend the public comment period for 45 days on the agency’s Cranes and Derricks Proposed Rule.
All workers must have successfully completed an OSHA 10 Hour course within the previous five calendar years. Legislation was signed into law by the Mayor on 9/3/08 and was to be effective 90 days later. We have been advised that the effective date has been delayed.
EPA is seeking comments on its proposed guidelines to control the discharge of pollutants from construction sites.
The New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is asking the 151 worksites in its jurisdiction participating in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) to conduct voluntary inspections of any crane activity occurring at their worksites during this week.
To coincide with the proposed rule on Cranes and Derricks in Construction, published in today's Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has initiated a National Crane Safety Initiative to address safety hazards during construction crane operation.
Fall hazards were the most frequently cited violation found at New York City construction sites by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during a two-week enhanced enforcement effort this past summer.
The Buildings Department notified concrete contractors at high-rise buildings this week of what its top crane regulator called “new requirements” for erecting, dismantling and raising tower cranes — rules that construction industry officials called onerous ones that would hamper building activity in New York
The rigging company that was raising a tower crane in Midtown when it collapsed in March, killing seven people, neglected to inspect the nylon slings it used to hoist a massive steel crane component aloft and was thus unaware that one was damaged, federal regulators said Monday.
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For two weeks beginning July 23, OSHA will bring a dozen additional inspectors into New York City to conduct proactive inspections of high-rise construction sites, cranes and other locations to combat the rise in the city’s construction fatalities. Twenty employees have died in construction-related accidents in New York City since January.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced broad changes on Wednesday in how the city will regulate building sites and share information between agencies to improve the inspection process and avoid tragedies like last summer’s fire at the Deutsche Bank tower in Lower Manhattan
The trial in federal court in 2006 was a union corruption case that in several days of testimony touched on a certain looseness in the way New York City had long handed out its licenses to operate cranes. One former official with the crane operators’ union told the court in Manhattan that he believed roughly a third of them could not operate a crane
Reducing excavation and trenching hazards for employees who install and repair private water and sewer services in the five boroughs of New York City is the goal of a new alliance between the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Association of Water and Sewer Excavators (AWSE), a trade association representing water and sewer installers, plumbing suppliers and insurance companies in the New York City area.
Beginning July 18, state law will require that all laborers, employees and mechanics working on New York state public works projects of $250,000 or more be certified as having successfully completed the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 10-hour construction safety and health course.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) have formed an alliance to address construction hazards in the city's five boroughs.
4/26/08 - OSHA announces informal public hearing on proposed rule on Confined Spaces in Construction
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced in the April 21 Federal Register that it will hold an informal public hearing to receive testimony and documentary evidence on the proposed rule for Confined Spaces in Construction.
4/7/08 - OSHA supports National Work Zone Awareness Week
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will participate in the ninth annual National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 7-11 in Sacramento, Calif. The kickoff event will be held in the city on April 8.
Amid an expanding search across the nation for better ways to prevent or contain high-rise infernos, the Fire Department, federal fire experts and engineers from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn have taken over part of Governors Island, the 172-acre former Coast Guard installation off Lower Manhattan, for a week of pyrotechnics intended to test “alternative strategies and tactics for wind-driven events.”
Buildings Commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster, FAIA, announced that beginning today the Buildings Department will undertake a 30-day citywide crackdown on unsafe supported scaffolds and sidewalk sheds - more than 1,500 of which will be inspected
The city’s Buildings Department, moving to shore up safety on construction sites after a worker fell 42 stories to his death last month, proposed new regulations on Monday that would require general contractors and concrete operators to register with the city
For developers, contractors and construction workers, an accident in SoHo has raised questions about whether the city’s requirement for safety netting goes far enough.
11/29/07 - Occupational Hazards Magazine: Most NYC Construction Deaths Occur on Non-Union Worksites
Of the 43 construction workers who died on the job in New York City in 2006, the majority worked on non-union sites, according to the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH).
11/28/07 - OSHA Issues Confined Spaces in Construction Proposed Rule
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today published in the r a proposed rule to enhance the protection provided to construction employees working in confined spaces.
9/27/2007 - Notice of Availability of the Regulatory Flexibility Act Review of the Occupational Safety Standard for Lead in Construction
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9/12/07 - OSHA's role in protecting workers after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001
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