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 ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- After more than 40 New York City construction fatalities since 2015, the City Council passed local law 196 that requires 10 to 30 hours of new safety training for nearly all ...

The city Department of Buildings is helping pave the way for a bill that would give construction workers more time to complete their 40 hours of safety training, saying at a hearing Tuesday that it ...

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.

The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is reminding the construction and development industry of the upcoming deadline for construction workers on large work sites in New York City to obtain ...

If you're looking for some hot topics in construction, safety and technology have to be two of the hottest. So let's talk about the role technology is playing in safety training. Specifically, safety ...

New York City has recently amended its construction safety training requirements to address not only physical hazards on jobsites but also the mental health and well-being of workers. This change ...

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 ...

The City Council will vote on a bill Thursday that would put off new construction safety training requirements for another six months. The bill would extend the deadline for new safety requirements ...