{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-fc-3308","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § FC 3308","heading":"Section FC 3308: Construction Site Fire Safety Manager","body":"3308.1 Fire safety manager.\n\nWhere a site safety manager or site safety coordinator is required by the Building Code, the owner shall designate a person to be the fire safety manager for the construction site. Such person shall hold a certificate of fitness as a construction site fire safety manager. The fire safety manager may be the site safety manager or site safety coordinator required by the Building Code, except that a separate fire safety manager shall be designated for a building under construction when such building reaches a height of twenty stories or more than 250 feet (76 200 mm), has a lot coverage of 200,000 square feet (1860 m\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t) or greater, or as otherwise prescribed by rule. For purposes of this section, below grade stories shall be used to determine number of stories and building height.\n\nException: Construction sites at which an existing building is undergoing alteration, the alteration work is limited to the facade, and no hot work is being performed.\n\n3308.1.1 Fire safety manager duties.\n\nThe fire safety manager shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with the requirements of this code, including this chapter, and the rules. The fire safety manager shall conduct an inspection of the construction site and all fire safety measures on at least a daily basis, and maintain a record of same in a bound log book or other approved system of recordkeeping. Where fire watch service is provided, the fire safety manager shall be responsible for the general supervision of the fire guards.\n\n3308.2 Pre-fire plans.\n\nThe fire safety manager shall develop and maintain at the construction site an approved pre-fire plan, and make it available for examination by any representative of the department. The department shall be notified of any changes in site conditions materially affecting the procedures set forth in such plan.\n\n3308.3 Training.\n\nThe fire safety manager shall ensure that construction site personnel are acquainted with the operation of portable fire extinguishers and other fire protection equipment on the construction site.\n\n3308.4 Fire protection devices.\n\nThe fire safety manager shall ensure that all fire protection equipment and systems are readily available and periodically inspected and tested, and maintained in accordance with this code, the rules and the Building Code.\n\n3308.5 Hot work operations.\n\nThe fire safety manager shall be responsible for supervising the issuance of authorizations for hot work operations in accordance with FC Chapter 35.\n\n3308.6 Impairment of fire protection systems.\n\nThe fire safety manager or impairment coordinator shall comply with the requirements of FC 901 in the event of impairment of any fire protection system.\n\n3308.7 Temporary covering of fire protection devices.\n\nCoverings placed on or over fire protection devices to protect them from damage during construction processes shall comply with the requirements of FC Chapter 9 and shall be immediately removed upon the completion of the construction processes in the room or area in which the devices are installed.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","Title 29","Chapter 2: New York City Fire Code"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"1cf7fedecc22a57d4de079e1e673ae1f90f8020e0d552a7d1d897f0fe0f554b9","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":true,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-fc-3307","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-fc-3309"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}