Subcommittee on Workplace Safety

Thank you Larry for your generous introduction and thank you for all of the excellent work you have done to make our rebuilding such an enormous success.

Last month in Marine Park, four teens were arrested for threatening a Brooklyn bus driver. The teens allegedly boarded the B82 bus through the back door to evade paying a fare, and after the bus operator asked them to board through the front, the teens...

Workplace safety challenges are a day-to-day reality for workers in the power and electrical industry, and in the wake of Hurricane Irene, these safety risks were dramatically magnified. Downed power lines, exposed energized wires, unstable utility poles,...

Ten years have passed since the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, and we remember the first responders who heroically sacrificed their lives to save victims of the attacks and the thousands of workers who contributed to the rescue and recuperation...