Legislation

§ 220-h. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
construction safety and health course. The advertised specifications for
every contract for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and/or
repair of public work to which the state or a municipality is a party,
where the total cost of all work to be performed under the contract is
at least two hundred fifty thousand dollars, shall contain a provision
requiring that all laborers, workers, and mechanics employed in the
performance of the contract on the public work site, either by the
contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do
the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract, shall be
certified prior to performing any work on the project as having
successfully completed a course in construction safety and health
approved by the United States department of labor's occupational safety
and health administration that is at least ten hours in duration.