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New YorkA 24322025-2026 Regular SessionHouse

Relates to reducing work related musculoskeletal disorders

Sponsored By: Harry B. Bronson (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Safer on-site care for warehouse workers

Beginning June 1, 2025, covered New York warehouses with on-site care for work-related muscle and joint symptoms must use qualified medical staff. Staff must work within their legal roles and follow state supervision rules. A New York-licensed, board-certified occupational medicine consultant must evaluate care programs and treatment protocols in writing and review them annually. Workers must receive understandable treatment summaries, and designated providers must observe relevant jobs and their risks. On-site care cannot delay necessary outside care or interfere with workers’ compensation treatment, benefits, or physician choice.

Paid training and warehouse reporting protections

Beginning June 1, 2025, covered New York warehouse materials-handling workers and their supervisors must receive annual injury prevention training. Training takes place during normal work hours without lost pay, using language and words workers understand. It covers early symptoms and reporting, work-pace hazards, ways to reduce risks, treatment protocols, committee rights, and employer policies. The law also bans retaliation or discrimination for reporting work-related injuries, illnesses, or health and safety concerns. This ban applies to supervisors, managers, and others, protecting current, former, and prospective employees and other people who report.

Stronger injury safeguards for warehouse workers

Beginning June 1, 2025, covered New York warehouses must run written programs to reduce injuries from manual materials handling. Covered conditions include muscle, joint, nerve, shoulder, and spinal disc disorders caused or significantly worsened or prolonged by workplace exposure. Injuries from sudden, non-exertion events, such as slips or falls, are excluded from this program’s definition. Qualified assessors must document risks for each job, process, shift, or operation; identical activities can use representative checks. Assessors qualify through listed professional roles, credentials, education, or extensive knowledge, training, and experience. Checks cover risks such as fast work pace, force, awkward positions, repetition, pressure, vibration, and cold. Employers must review evaluations at least annually and complete new risk analyses and revised evaluations within 30 days of potentially risk-increasing work changes. Employers must promptly fix hazards and document equipment and work-rule controls, such as redesigned workstations, slower pace, or added breaks. Fixes taking more than 30 days require a written schedule and interim protections; unavoidable hazards require reducing exposure as far as feasible.

Warehouse workers gain safety review rights

Beginning June 1, 2025, covered New York employers must consult workers and their representatives throughout safety program development and implementation. Job evaluations must include regular workers’ input and assess whether quotas can lead to discipline or firing. Workers must receive written results, and free evaluation copies must be available to workers and representatives within one business day of request. Records must stay accessible at the warehouse, and worker documents must be written in English and each worker’s identified primary language. Employers must give qualifying workplace safety committees program records before consultation. Employers can let employee-led committees conduct or review evaluations only with committees formed before June 1, 2025, through currently active collective bargaining. Those committees must remain active alongside an injury prevention program fully compliant with federal workplace safety law. A written committee request raising a material concern about an assessor’s findings triggers a board-certified ergonomist review beginning within 30 days. Where no active committee exists, a written request from any employee committee raising such a concern also triggers review. Completed revised or new evaluations must be available free to workers and representatives upon request.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Harry B. Bronson

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Stefani Zinerman

    Democratic • House

  • William Colton

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 199 • No: 9

Senate vote • 2/5/2025

FLOOR Vote

Yes: 54 • No: 8

House vote • 2/4/2025

Assembly floor vote

Yes: 145 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. SIGNED CHAP.68

    2/14/2025House

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

    2/12/2025House

  3. RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

    2/5/2025Senate

  4. PASSED SENATE

    2/5/2025Senate

  5. 3RD READING CAL.82

    2/5/2025Senate

  6. SUBSTITUTED FOR S808

    2/5/2025Senate

  7. REFERRED TO RULES

    2/4/2025Senate

  8. DELIVERED TO SENATE

    2/4/2025House

  9. PASSED ASSEMBLY

    2/4/2025House

  10. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.82

    1/28/2025House

  11. RULES REPORT CAL.82

    1/28/2025House

  12. REPORTED

    1/28/2025House

  13. REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

    1/28/2025House

  14. REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES

    1/28/2025House

  15. REFERRED TO LABOR

    1/16/2025House

Bill Text

  • Original

    1/16/2025

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