FEBRUARY 2015
2014 NYC Construction
Codes + RCNY: Façades
Façade projects requiring
site safety plans – buildings
15 stories and higher – may now use a site safety manager,
rigger, designated rigging foreman
or qualified person
to oversee site safety.
See NYC
Building Code §§3310, 3314.4 and 3316.9, and 1 RCNY 3310-01.
Façade Projects – Other Than
Recladding
For 2014 Code façade projects
(other than recladding, discussed below), contractors or owners may now opt to have a rigger, designated rigging foreman employed by the rigger, qualified person
for site safety or site safety manager provide site safety oversight.
Training:
Riggers, designated
rigging foremen
and qualified people for site safety must have 40 hours of site safety training and 30 hours of OSHA training (among additional training requirements below); site safety managers must meet all license training
requirements.
PW2 Designation:
These projects
must still designate
a site safety manager
on the PW2, and the designated
site safety manager is required at specific periods
during the façade project.
2014 Codes Projects: Work (other than recladding)
must meet the following new requirements:
1. Prior
to Project
Start. The
designated site
safety manager
must: visit
the site;
perform a full site safety inspection; and verify the site complies with the site safety plan, including but not limited to sidewalk
sheds, fences, pedestrian protection, and protection of
roofs and adjoining property.
2. After Hazardous
Violations. A site safety manager must perform a full site safety inspection
within 24 hours.
3. Full-Time, Site Safety Oversight – Options. Oversight
includes: site safety
inspections; site safety
log; and
compliance with the site safety plan. During work,
full-time site safety oversight
is required by one of the following:
a. Site
Safety Manager; or
b. Licensed
Rigger (or Designated Rigging
Foreman Employed by the Licensed Rigger);
or
c. Qualified Person for Site Safety (Approved
by the Designated Site
Safety Manager).
The
licensed rigger;
designated rigging
foreman; qualified
person for
site safety
must have:
·
OSHA 10 or greater
construction training (and Building Code
refresher every 5 years thereafter);
·
Jobsite-specific safety orientation;
and
·
Beginning July 1, 2016:
- 40-hour site safety
manager training (and 7-hour
refresher every 3 years
thereafter); and
-
32-hour supported scaffold installer
training (and 8-hour refresher ever 4 years
thereafter); and
-
32-hour suspended scaffold
supervisor training (and complete the 8-hour refresher every 4 years thereafter);
and
- OSHA
30 or greater construction
training.
2008 Codes Projects:
May proceed
with the two-hour/part-time site safety
manager, if previously granted.
Façade Recladding Projects
Examples:
Removing a masonry
façade and installing a glass façade;
installing a new building
envelope over an existing façade.
2008 Codes Projects: Recladding may continue
with
a
two-hour/part-time site safety
manager, if previously
approved.
2014 Codes Projects:
Façade recladding must have a full-time site safety manager.
Scaffold,
Mast Climber and Hosting Operations
Personnel
must also
be provided to
supervise hoisting
or lowering articles, and for the installation, use and removal
of suspended scaffolds,
supported scaffolds, mast climbers,
cranes and hoisting machines.
1 The person
providing full-time site safety oversight must be at the site
for all the other types of work in
the table.
2 The site safety manager designated on the PW2 must inspect
the site prior to the commencement of the project, and
a site safety manager must inspect
the site within 24
hours after the Department issues a hazardous violation.
3 A site safety manger must be present
during the installation or removal of a supported
scaffold (but not a sidewalk
shed) that occurs
once the façade project
has started. However,
a site safety manager does not
have to be present
during the relocation of existing deck planking or guardrails to a different
level of the scaffold provided any such relocation
is designated
on the scaffold design documents.
4 A site safety manger must also be present
during the installation or removal
of a mast climber.