File #: Int 1436-2017    Version: Name: Construction Safety - Requiring DOB to report on site safety managers and coordinators.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 1/18/2017
Enactment date: 12/1/2017 Law number: 2017/224
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of buildings to report on site safety managers and coordinators
Sponsors: Steven Matteo, Elizabeth S. Crowley, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Vincent J. Gentile, Helen K. Rosenthal, Deborah L. Rose, Antonio Reynoso, Stephen T. Levin, Rafael L. Espinal, Jr., Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Donovan J. Richards, Carlos Menchaca, Margaret S. Chin, Ben Kallos
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Buildings to report to the City Council on site safety managers and coordinators.
Indexes: Oversight, Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1436-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1436, 3. January 18, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Int. No. 1436, 5. Committee Report 1/31/17, 6. Hearing Testimony 1/31/17, 7. Hearing Transcript 1/31/17, 8. Proposed Int. No. 1436-A - 10/26/17, 9. Committee Report 10/30/17, 10. Hearing Transcript 10/30/17, 11. October 31, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 12. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 13. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-31-17, 14. Int. No. 1436-A (FINAL), 15. Fiscal Impact Statement, 16. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 17. Local Law 224, 18. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 31, 2017
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Int. No. 1436-A

 

By Council Members Matteo, Crowley, Salamanca, Gentile, Rosenthal, Rose, Reynoso, Levin, Espinal, Cornegy, Richards, Menchaca, Chin and Kallos

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of buildings to report on site safety managers and coordinators

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Article 103 of chapter 1 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 28-103.31 to read as follows:

§ 28-103.31 Report on site safety manager and coordinator certifications. The commissioner shall, in October of 2018 and each year thereafter, electronically submit to the city council and post on the department's website a report that includes the following information regarding site safety managers and site safety coordinators:

 

1.                      The (i) number of active site safety manager certificates and (ii) number of active site safety coordinator certificates;

 

2.                      The (i) number of active site safety manager certificates on the last day of the preceding year and (ii) number of active site safety coordinator certificates on the last day of the preceding year;

 

3.                     The (i) number of sites for which a site safety manager was required by this code during the preceding year and (ii) number of such sites for which a site safety manager was required by this code but for which a site safety coordinator may be designated in lieu of such manager pursuant to the exception to section 3310.5 of the New York city building code;

  

4. The (i) number of site safety manager certificates issued in the preceding year and (ii) number of site safety coordinator certificates issued in the preceding year;

 

5.                      The (i) number of applicants for site safety manager certificates who submitted applications during the preceding year and (ii) number of applicants for site safety coordinator certificates who submitted applications during the preceding year;

 

6.                      The (i) average length of time for an applicant who submitted an application for a site safety manager certificate during the preceding year to receive such certificate, measured from the date a completed application is submitted to the department and (ii) average length of time for an applicant who submitted an application for a site safety coordinator certificate during the preceding year to receive such certificate, measured from the date a completed application is submitted to the department; and

 

7.                     The (i) average length of time for an applicant who submitted an application for a site safety manager certificate during the preceding year to complete a background check, if any, for such certificate, measured from the date such applicant submitted all documentation necessary to complete such check, (ii) average length of time for an applicant who submitted an application for a site safety coordinator certificate during the preceding year to complete a background check, if any, for such certificate, measured from the date such applicant submitted all documentation necessary to complete such check (iii) the main three reasons for completions of background checks for applicants who submitted applications for site safety manager certificates during the preceding year  exceeding the average length of time for completion of such background checks and (iv) the main three reasons for completions of background checks for applicants who submitted applications for site safety coordinator certificates during the preceding year exceeding the average length of time for completion of such background checks.

 

                     § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

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