Personal Injury Lawyers in New York

Construction site accidents and project superintendent

In order to increase profits for the employer of the construction project superintendent, usually the general contractor, construction work must proceed quickly. Every minute not spent advancing the construction of the project is lost money and profits to the general contractor. A general contractor has contracted to build the project for a specified contract price, regardless of the problems that may be encountered during the building project. Competing for the project superintendent's attention are the statutory safety responsibilities and the agreed to safety duties contained in the construction contract freely accepted by the general contractor and the duty of the project superintendent during the building project. Constructional worker safety, safety checks, construction safety site meetings, construction site safety equipment checks all involved time and money which not only fails to directly advance the construction, but can actually slowed down completion of the project and result in some loss of profit.

The training in the field of construction site safety is an important quality of any project superintendent. Experience at construction sites the size of the subject project in the list of safety codes, regulations and guidelines that the project superintendent has studied are factors that begin to establish the training of the project superintendent. Formal training received in construction site safety courses, formal seminars taken and the details of informal training a superintendent has received in the field of safety are other factors to be evaluated when reviewing the training and safety experience possessed by a construction site superintendent.

In our legal representation of construction workers injured, all law firm seeks to find out the familiarity of the project superintend with the construction contract between the building owner and the general contractor before that time the worker was injured. Pre-construction safety meetings, establishment of a written safety program, the power to shut down a construction site if dangerous conditions are not remedy, are just some of the areas of inquiry our law firm makes when representing injured construction workers.

Our law firm also routinely examines the project superintendent's own routine on the job. How often is the job site toured, what are the responsibilities on the project, are there regular safety meetings, was the project on schedule, was there a pending time of the inspection regarding completion by the building owner, are typical of the questions we want and sit on behalf of our client

If you or a loved one has construction accident questions in New York, please contact the Law Offices of Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, serving clients in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens,. Staten Island and Westchester County

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