safety

The Real Estate Board of New York is going beyond passively condemning a union-backed City Council bill that aims to heighten training standards for construction workers.

Is real estate safe compared to other industries? Most brokers would emphatically say yes, and that the business isn’t any less safe than any other industry.

The city has permanently revoked the license of a crane operator invovled in the Tribeca collapse that killed a 38-year-old man and wounded three other people.

The Department of Buildings is taking construction safety on the road this week in an annual effort to keep New York and New Yorkers safe.

REBNY is committed to supporting greater construction safety in New York City by helping to ensure that workers are protected and properly trained.

The Department of Buildings has launched a seven-week façade and scaffold safety blitz. The campaign includes direct educational outreach to construction

Thunderstorms have been predicted for the New York City area with wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour that could continue through Thursday. 

New York’s Buildings Department released its May 2018 enforcement bulletin, highlighting bad actors in the construction industry that were punished

 Con Edison is installing 376,000 smart-technology natural gas detectors for customers in New York City and Westchester County, providing an unprecedented

In testimony before senior White House cabinet members, leading school-design architect Jay Brotman, AIA, pushed for legislation that promotes the design

New York’s Buildings Department has finalized training requirements put in place by last year’s safety legislation. Construction workers on most major

Department of Buildings (DOB) inspectors have begun proactive sweeps of over 6,000 construction sites to educate workers about construction site safety.