New York City council’s committee on housing and buildings has made amendments to new legislation aimed at changing the city’s administrative code in relation to tower and climbing cranes. The city council, meeting on 4 September, voted to approve the amended legislation.
A new provision was made to allow the licensed engineer planning the job to make his own calculations of the weight of components, where manufacturers calculations were not available. He would need to indicate how the weights were determined.
A section prohibiting rigging operations between outside of daylight hours was removed. Instead, the plan for the job must now include a scheduled time, along with a day and date.
Rules on safety coordinator meetings were amended. Now, a meeting must be held before the initial erection of the crane, rather than before the first climbing operation. The personnel that should be present at the meeting was changed; now, the licensed master rigger, rigger foreman, operator and oiler should all be present. Similar changes were made for the pre-jumping meeting.
Other amendments were also made. The committee voted to approve the amended bill. The full documents can be found at the council’s website, www.nyccouncil.info.
