N.Y. Labor Law § 200
Imposes a general duty that all workplaces covered by the Labor Law be constructed, equipped, arranged, operated, and conducted — and all machinery, equipment, and devices placed, operated, guarded, and lighted — to provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health, and safety of all persons employed there or lawfully frequenting the site. Courts treat it as a codification of the common-law duty of owners, general contractors, and their agents to provide a safe place to work; liability is fault-based (unlike the strict liability of § 240), requiring proof that the defendant created the dangerous condition or had actual or constructive notice of it, or supervised and controlled the means and methods of the work.
N.Y. Labor Law § 240 (Scaffold Law)
N.Y. Labor Law § 241 (incl. subd. 6)
N.Y. Labor Law Article 30, §§ 900-910 (licensing/certification requirements in § 902)
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