Fatal accidents loom over New York Cities’ “Safety Week”
Intense scuitinty is being applied to the The New York City Buildings Department’s “Saftey Week” amid controversy. The Downtown Express points out:
Construction Safety Week has gotten more attention than usual this year, because it echoes the Buildings Department’s increasing focus on safety amid the disasters, LiMandri said.
The article continues:
Last year, OSHA did 45 site inspections of demolition work in the city. At 38 of those sites, inspectors saw enough problems to issue a total of 175 violations, including some at Deutsche. That’s an average of 3.9 violations per inspected demolition site, higher than OSHA’s average of 3.2 violations per general construction site.
The D.O.B. and OSHA spent much of Wednesday’s presentation detailing their respective construction codes.
Almost 4 violations per building seems absurd. Something must be done to dramatically increase construction worker safety in New York City.