{"id":15351,"date":"2014-07-09T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2014\/07\/keeping-scaffold-law-protects-workers.html"},"modified":"2014-07-09T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:39:13","slug":"keeping-scaffold-law-protects-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2014\/07\/keeping-scaffold-law-protects-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Turn: Keeping Scaffold Law Protects Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-left\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"joan shirikian-hesselton.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/joan20shirikian-hesselton.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"134\" width=\"125\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"img-caption\">Joan Shirikian-Hesselton, Northeast Coalition on Occupational Health &amp; Safety\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BY JOAN SHIRIKIAN-HESSELTON<\/p>\n<p>For another year, Albany has passed on<br \/>\n&#8216;reforming&#8217; the Scaffold Safety Law. And<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Few debates in Albany are as misleading<br \/>\nas the one surrounding this critical<br \/>\nworker safety protection for New York construction<br \/>\nworkers. Construction remains<br \/>\none of the most dangerous jobs in the<br \/>\nnation, especially for Latino and immigrant<br \/>\nworkers. In New York alone, there were 101<br \/>\nfatal construction accidents from 2009 to<br \/>\n2011. Many more were injured, often in debilitating<br \/>\nfashion. And with so much new<br \/>\nconstruction underway throughout the<br \/>\nstate, it seems like the news reports nearly<br \/>\nevery week on another tragic accident.<br \/>\nBut New York construction workers have<br \/>\nan important but oft-misunderstood protection<br \/>\non their side: the Scaffold Safety<br \/>\nLaw.<\/p>\n<p>The law&#8217;s premise is simple: that the<br \/>\npeople who control construction worksite<br \/>\noperations, general contractors and property<br \/>\nowners, are responsible for ensuring<br \/>\nbasic safety rules for working at elevation<br \/>\nare followed on their worksites. If they fail to do so, and a worker is<br \/>\ninjured or killed as a result, they&#8217;re held<br \/>\nliable. If, however, they follow the rules,<br \/>\nthey won&#8217;t be held liable.<\/p>\n<p>This law has been a powerful incentive<br \/>\nfor safety in a dangerous industry. And<br \/>\ndespite the huge amount of construction<br \/>\nhere, New York actually can claim the nation&#8217;s<br \/>\nfifth-lowest injury rate, thanks in part<br \/>\nto the Scaffold Safety Law.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the construction industry has been<br \/>\nwaging war on it for years, claiming it&#8217;s too<br \/>\nexpensive to ensure workers are safe. They<br \/>\nargue (falsely) that New York is the only<br \/>\nstate with such a law, when in fact many<br \/>\nother states have stronger safety standards<br \/>\n(some states even have criminal penalties<br \/>\nfor breaking safety rules).<\/p>\n<p>They further argue the Law is single handedly<br \/>\nmaking construction far more<br \/>\nexpensive by driving up liability insurance<br \/>\ncosts, and therein slowing business<br \/>\ngrowth &#8211; despite the continued rise in new<br \/>\nconstruction across the state.<\/p>\n<p>This past year, they turned to academic<br \/>\nresearchers to try and bolster their case,<br \/>\nspending $82,800 to commission SUNY Albany&#8217;s<br \/>\nRockefeller Institute to study the<br \/>\nimpact of the Scaffold Safety Law.<br \/>\nRemember that old saying, you get what<br \/>\nyou pay for? Well in this case, that adage<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t be more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Our partners in New York City, the NY<br \/>\nCommittee on Occupational Safety &amp;<br \/>\nHealth, and the Center for Popular Democracy<br \/>\nreleased a report detailing some<br \/>\nof the many flaws in the Rockefeller study,<br \/>\ndecrying in particular its &#8220;far-fetched&#8221; and<br \/>\n&#8220;counterintuitive&#8221; central claim: that the<br \/>\nlaw actually causes more accidents, not<br \/>\nless.<\/p>\n<p>As Richard W. Hurd, professor and associate<br \/>\ndean at the Cornell University School<br \/>\nof Industrial and Labor Relations noted in<br \/>\nthe Insurance Journal, &#8220;If employers are financially<br \/>\nliable for injury and death, would<br \/>\nthey not be more likely to invest in safety?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Rockefeller Institute Director<br \/>\nThomas Gais started backpedaling,<br \/>\neven going so far as to tell the Chronicle<br \/>\nof Higher Education that the research was<br \/>\n&#8220;just really awful&#8221; and deeming it not officially<br \/>\na research product of the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The study is now the subject of multiple<br \/>\nFreedom of Information requests, including<br \/>\none seeking to discover what role the<br \/>\nlaw&#8217;s primary opponent &#8211; an industry backed<br \/>\nfront group &#8211; played in shaping<br \/>\nthis &#8220;research.&#8221; But none of this has stopped<br \/>\nthat same group from peddling the flawed<br \/>\nresearch around the state &#8211; including last<br \/>\nmonth in a column here in the Saratoga<br \/>\nBusiness Journal and Glen Falls Business<br \/>\nJournal.<\/p>\n<p>In general, opponents are fixated on the<br \/>\nhigh cost of liability insurance, arguing this<br \/>\nis purely the result of the Scaffold Safety<br \/>\nLaw &#8211; even though insurance rates have<br \/>\nbeen rising nationally, in states with and<br \/>\nwithout similar laws, for years.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes high insurance costs &#8211; us<br \/>\nincluded. That&#8217;s why we support a bill<br \/>\ndesigned to shed light on what&#8217;s really<br \/>\ndriving these liability insurance costs. That<br \/>\nbill would force insurers to open their<br \/>\nbooks to disclose actuarial data that can<br \/>\nbe properly evaluated &#8211; data that is not<br \/>\ncurrently available.<\/p>\n<p>With workers&#8217; lives at stake, we believe it<br \/>\nis critical that policy makers looking at the<br \/>\nScaffold Safety Law have this information<br \/>\nbefore them. Yet opponents of the Scaffold<br \/>\nSafety Law, joined by the American Insurance<br \/>\nAssociation, are urging lawmakers<br \/>\nto reject this common-sense transparency<br \/>\nbill. Instead, these groups want our<br \/>\nlawmakers to move full steam ahead with<br \/>\ngutting the Scaffold Safety Law.<\/p>\n<p>Such a step would be wildly dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why the Albany Times-Union<br \/>\nrecently editorialized on this issue, urging<br \/>\nlawmakers to leave the law intact in the<br \/>\nabsence of any hard data.<\/p>\n<p>I urge our legislators: Don&#8217;t give in to the<br \/>\nindustry&#8217;s whim. Leave the Scaffold Safety<br \/>\nLaw alone. Do so, and you&#8217;ll help ensure the<br \/>\nsafety of our friends, family and neighbors.<br \/>\nAfter all, they&#8217;re the people who literally<br \/>\nbuild up our communities.<\/p>\n<p>Shirikian-Hesselton is secretary of the<br \/>\nNortheast New York Coalition on Occupational<br \/>\nSafety &amp; Health.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Courtesy of Northeast Coalition on Occupational Health &amp; Safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Joan Shirikian-Hesselton, Northeast Coalition on Occupational Health &amp; Safety BY JOAN SHIRIKIAN-HESSELTON For another year, Albany has passed on &#8216;reforming&#8217; the Scaffold Safety Law. And that&#8217;s a good thing. 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