This is just a quick reminder to all our clients and friends that as of December 1st, 2019 per Local Law 196 of 2017, Site Safety Training or SST, workers at job sites requiring a Construction Superintendent, Site Safety Coordinator or Site Safety Manager must have a total of 30 hours of safety training by December 1, 2019 and a total of 40 hours by September 2020. Supervisors must have 62 hours of training by December 1, 2019.
Further for General Contractors (G.C.’s), every site must post worker safety information posters as each job site they are running where safety is required. This was effective as of October 14th, 2019.
Per the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB), the signs must contain the following attributes.
- Contain specific information about required worker safety training, including all site safety training deadlines and the number of required training hours, and the information must
- Be in all languages used by workers to communicate at the construction site. In addition, the signs must
- Be clearly visible to workers and must be posted at the construction site as follows:
- Sites with construction fencing must post a sign at each egress point on the inside of the construction fencing, including vehicle delivery fence gates and existing loading docks.
- Sites without construction fencing must post a sign at each egress point within the controlled access zone where construction is taking place and at each existing loading dock or location used for construction delivery or access.
To comply with the new requirements, the posted sign must:
- be 44 inches wide and 30 inches high;
- have letters at least 1 inch (25 mm) high;
- have white letters on a blue background; and
- be made of a durable and weatherproof material such as vinyl, plastic, or aluminum that is flame retardant.
The NYC DOB also was kind enough to build out templates in various languages for a diverse workforce population. If you wish to obtain a Site Safety Poster in a different language than English CLICK HERE.
Any questions we recommend so speak directly with Complete Safety Services, LLC Sinead O’Flaherty. CLICK HERE to contact Sinead.
