Sanchez asks how DOB verifies stop work order corrections
Sanchez asks whether DOB returns to confirm corrective work after a stop work order; Tigani explains owners must submit means-and-methods analysis and a corrective action plan that DOB reviews before lifting the order, and Shamash adds the department does not blindly accept remediation plans and re-inspects immediately hazardous violations through its hazardous re-inspection program.
So I thought I had it somewhere, but I'm going to just ask it off the top of my head.
For these full stop work orders, stop work orders, I'm understanding from your opening testimony, Commissioner, and from your answer just now, Deputy Commissioner, that the agency essentially keeps going back to see if
dangerous conditions have been corrected.
Is that the case?
I would just amend this.
So if there is a partial stop work order or a full stop work order, the contractor, responsible person, the owner, knows that they have a responsibility to provide us with a means and method analysis and a corrective action strategy.
Related to the issue that brought on that violation and action.
Once that is submitted to the department and reviewed, and if an inspection is required, an inspection, then we'll take the steps to lift that partial or full stop work order.
But there is a process that's involved, and it's contingent on the owner to demonstrate that they understand what was wrong, they corrected what was wrong, and they'll allow them to move forward.
So they submit to you means and methods.
They submit to you what their corrective action plan is, and then you accept that in every case you go back and check that they're doing the work correctly?
I'll just add one other statement.
If we don't hear back and it is an immediately hazardous violation, we will re-inspect as part of our hazardous re-inspection program.
So if we do not hear back from them, we will re-inspect.
To answer your question just now, no, we don't just blindly accept their remediation plan.
We have a whole team at the department that reviews any kind of documentation related to stop work orders.
You know, depending on what the remedy is in the violations, it could be a litany of things that need to get submitted to us.
And then we go and review the corrective action that has taken place on site to make sure it has been implemented and an inspector will go out and confirm that.
Great.
Thank you.
Thank you for clarifying that.