File #: Int 1384-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring construction site safety trainings to include mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance-misuse.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 9/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to requiring construction site safety trainings to include mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance-misuse
Sponsors: Linda Lee, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would amend the definition of “site safety training (SST) card” in the New York City Building Code to require that an applicant for such card complete at least two SST credits related to mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance-misuse.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1384, 2. Int. No. 1384, 3. September 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1384

 

By Council Members Lee, Sanchez and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to requiring construction site safety trainings to include mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance-misuse

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

 

Section 1. The definition of “SITE SAFETY TRAINING (SST) CARD” set forth in section 202 of the New York city building code, as added by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

SITE SAFETY TRAINING (SST) CARD. A card that is issued in a form and manner established by the department and that satisfies each of the following conditions:

 

1.                     Such card is issued by an SST provider to a person who submits an application to such provider demonstrating, in a form and manner established by the department, that such applicant satisfies the requirements of Item 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3:

 

1.1. Such applicant has successfully completed (i) an OSHA 10-hour class and (ii) 30-45 additional SST credits specified by the department, including eight SST credits relating to safeguarding against the dangers posed by falling workers and objects and at least two SST credits relating to mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance-misuse.

 

1.2. Such applicant has successfully completed (i) an OSHA 30-hour class and (ii) 10-25 additional SST credits specified by the department, including eight SST credits relating to safeguarding against the dangers posed by falling workers and objects and at least two SST credits relating to mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance-misuse.

 

1.3. Such applicant has successfully completed a 100-hour training program.

 

2.                     If such applicant completed the training to comply with Item 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 but did not complete such training within the five years preceding submission of such application, such applicant has, in the one-year period preceding submission of such application, completed at least eight SST credits specified by the department.

 

3.                     Such card is issued by an SST provider who does not require applicants to submit any information except for (i) the information necessary to establish that the requirements in Item 1 have been satisfied, as specified by the department, (ii) a photograph of the applicant and (iii) such additional information as the department may allow by rule.

 

4.                     Such card expires five years after issuance and is renewable upon a showing by the applicant that such applicant has, in the one-year period preceding submission of such renewal application, successfully completed eight SST credits specified by the department.

 

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

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LS # 17224/17225/17172/17173/17337/17338

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