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City agencies back mental health and substance-misuse topic for site safety cards, seek code fixes
Summary
The Department of Buildings told the New York City Council that it supports Intro 13-84 to add mental‑health, suicide‑prevention and substance‑misuse training to the site safety training curriculum and proposed code fixes for SST card renewal and qualification pathways.
The Department of Buildings told the New York City Council that it supports Intro 13-84, a bill that would expand the definition of the city’s site safety training (SST) card to require at least two SST credits addressing mental health and wellness, suicide risk and prevention, and alcohol and substance misuse. Guillermo Pacino, deputy commissioner for policy and legal affairs at DOB, said the department has “no objection to incorporating mental health and wellness as well as suicide risk and prevention into the 40 hour course curriculum for site safety training.”
DOB witnesses also described implementation problems…
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