Overview & Objectives
Each year, thousands of construction workers are injured on the job due to falls. To help reduce these incidents and enhance job site safety, New York City’s Department of Buildings (NYC DOB) created additional fall hazard standards to supplement those established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The NYC SST-307 8-Hour Fall Prevention for Construction course provides extensive training on fall hazard identification, evaluation, prevention, and more to adhere to all federal and NYC Local Law 196 regulations regarding worksite falls.
NOTICE: New York City Local Law 196 (LL196) of 2017 specifies that, as part of the course requirements for 8-Hour Fall Prevention, trainees demonstrate wearing generic fall protection equipment.
Our online training program is approved by the NYC Department of Buildings to satisfy the Site Safety Training (SST) requirements. However, we recommend that employees work with their employers to ensure that trainees taking this course have the opportunity to put on, take off, and safely use the protective equipment required for use on the job, learn about other project specific fall protection and ask questions specific to the project. NYC DOB Provider ID Number: 4T75
This NYC SST 8-hour Fall Prevention for Construction course covers a broad range of construction site safety topics related to fall hazards, prevention, training, and more. Course topics include:
- Relevant terminology, definitions, and regulations
- OSHA standards
- S. and NYC fall statistics
- How to recognize, evaluate, and prevent fall hazards
- Fall prevention evaluation and mitigation methodology
- Hierarchy of controls
- Fall protection decision-making and control strategy selection
- The role of the Competent Person and Qualified Person in fall protection
- Competent Person and Qualified Person designation, requirements, and responsibilities
- Slips, trips, and falls
- Fall hazard recognition
- Platforms and devices
- Excavation, trench, and truck fall hazards
- Anchorage
- Controlled Access Zone (CAZ)
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) – selection, inspection, maintenance
- Positioning device systems
- Rope grab
- Safety monitoring systems
- Walking-working surfaces and work areas
- Fall hazard and rescue methods
- 100% fall protection program guidelines and methods
- How to use tailgate meetings and toolbox talks
- Task safety considerations
- Promoting a safety culture of caring
- NYC Department of Buildings fall protection checklist
