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What is NYC BC § 3314.4.5.1?

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This section mandates that workers involved in the installation, adjustment, repair, maintenance, or removal of supported scaffolds that are 40 feet or more in height must complete a department-approved training program of at least 32 hours. Supervisors are also required to meet these training standards. Applies to scaffold installers and supervisors.

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3314.4.5.1 Training for supported scaffold installers, adjusters, repairers, maintainers, or removers.

BC § 3314.4.5.1

Workers who install, adjust, repair, maintain, or remove a supported scaffold that is 40 feet (12 192 mm) or more in height, including the person supervising such, shall, at a minimum, have completed a department-approved training program or course that is at least 32 hours long and shall complete a department-approved 8-hour refresher program or course every 4 years thereafter. Workers who install, adjust, repair, maintain, or remove a sidewalk shed that provides a base for a supported scaffold that is 40 feet (12 192 mm) or more in height, including the person supervising such, are subject to the above requirements. Exceptions: 1. The installation, adjustment, maintenance, repair, or removal of a supported scaffold performed by an employee of a public utility, including the person supervising such, where such supported scaffold is located within the interior of a structure owned or operated by such utility, and when such utility has a training safety program or course of not less than 32 hours for its employees who perform such scaffold work.

2.Where existing supported scaffold deck planking or guardrails are being relocated to a different level of the scaffold in accordance with the design, such may be performed by individuals who have completed the training required by Section 3314.4.5.2.

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