Labor & Employment Law

Safety Training for employees working on public works contracts

Safety Training for employees working on public works contracts
Section 220-h of the New York State?s Labor Law

Section 220-h of the State?s Labor Law takes effect on July 18, 2008. It mandates that the advertised specifications for public works contracts published by a state or municipality estimated to cost $250,000 or more include a requirement that laborers, workers and mechanics to be employed in the performance of the contract have successfully completed at least a 10-hour course in construction safety and health approved by the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The text of Section 220-h is set out below:

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) construction safety and health course.

The advertised specifications for every contract for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and/or repair of public work to which the state or a municipality is a party, where the total cost of all work to be performed under the contract is at least two hundred fifty thousand the performance of the contract on the public work site, either by the contractor, sub-contractor or dollars, shall contain a provision requiring that all laborers, workers, and mechanics employed in other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract, shall be certified prior to performing any work on the project as having successfully completed a course in construction safety and health approved by the United States department of labor's occupational safety and health administration that is at least ten hours in duration.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).