A Brooklyn security company allegedly doled out tens of thousands of fraudulent safety certificates to students who paid hundreds of dollars — but never provided any training for the crucial ...

The company and 25 people were also charged with running a scheme that falsely certified thousands of workers as having completed required safety training. By Matthew Haag A construction safety ...

Extreme weather occurrences — from hurricanes and floods to heatwaves and wildfires — are becoming more persistent and severe. This evolving climate landscape presents new challenges for construction ...

The owner of a fraudulent construction safety company that faked safety certifications for thousands of workers, including one man who fell to his death from a job site in 2022, has pleaded guilty to ...

New York City recently enacted new construction safety training legislation that established a program to provide equal access to construction site safety training (SST) for workers, in addition to ...

As we all know, construction work is responsible for hundreds of fatalities and thousands of work-related injuries and illnesses each year. As the head of the OSHA Directorate of Construction, Jim ...

The city’s 185,000 construction workers would have to undergo up to 55 hours of safety training under a bill approved Wednesday by the City Council – a measure labor unions view as necessary for ...

The deadline for construction workers to complete their 40 hours of safety training should be pushed back from Sept. 1 to next March because of the pandemic, according to a group of lawmakers.

Those who work in construction are all too familiar with the safety concerns surrounding the industry. Despite advances in personal protective equipment (PPE), stricter regulations and enforcement, ...

Worker safety inspections at city construction sites have turned up a troubling number of falsified or incomplete worker safety training cards, an indication that many of the city’s construction ...

A new interactive map released by New York City's Department of Buildings shows 8,000 construction sites that require safety training. Jul 08, 2019 New York City's Department of Buildings released a ...

The New York City Council adopted on Sept. 27 a municipal construction safety law requiring workers on many projects to have 40 to 55 hours of safety training, well above the minimums required by ...