DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS LAUNCHES 7-WEEKS OF FACADE INSPECTIONS

The Department of Buildings yesterday announced the launch of a seven-week façade and scaffold safety blitz. This campaign, which kicked off this month, includes direct educational outreach to construction workers and industry professionals on scaffold safety, as well as inspection sweeps on over 1,000 façade work sites across the five boroughs. Inspectors will also now provide a detailed check list to construction contractors for any deficiencies found with their scaffolding set up following required corner/angle scaffold safety inspections. The program aims to improve work site safety, and hold managers accountable for not properly maintaining their buildings’ façades.

To introduce this educational outreach campaign, DOB issued its first-ever Worker Alert. The Worker Alert, directed towards construction workers, provides practical situational safety information and straightforward guidance for those performing façade work.

Click here to read the full DOB Press Release. For more guidance on this news and how to prepare for inspections please contact us at info@allnycsafety.com or 718-366-3590.