Sanchez asks about OSHA and NYCOSH coordination
Sanchez asks whether DOB meets monthly with OSHA and NYCOSH; Tigani says OSHA meetings are monthly but NYCOSH is not met with monthly though there is a line of communication, and Shamash describes monthly OSHA meetings covering incidents, joint investigations, and how OSHA relies on DOB's fatality investigative reports.
And you're meeting with both Osha and Naikash on a monthly basis?
I don't believe it's a monthly.
Osha is monthly, sorry.
Osha is monthly.
No.
I mean, I've recently, we've recently talked to Charlene and Naikosh.
I think we're trying to involve them, particularly as we approach this committee and think about what more we can be doing.
We certainly are talking to them earlier in the year as they put together their stats and numbers and put their findings.
So there is a line of communication, but we're not meeting with Naikosh monthly.
With regards to OSHA and our monthly meetings, that is headed up by Jill's team, our assistant commissioner for construction safety engineering.
Our monthly meetings, we go over all necessary incidents that happen over that month.
It might be worker injury or fatality.
We go over the investigations that we are doing, that they are doing, the enforcement actions, and then the investigations.
A lot of times the investigations and the interviews of the workers happens jointly with OSHA.
And then a lot of times OSHA does rely on our investigative reports related specifically to fatalities as part of their enforcement actions.
As well.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.