Third time: The contractor registrant revoked another company license

Permanent or suspended license suspension and fines: These are the steps taken against about 10 companies after signing an agreement between the Safety Administration and the Contractor's Office

In 2017, the State Comptroller wrote in a report on "Registration of Contractors and Aspects of Quality Assurance and Safety in the Construction Industry" that "although the Safety Administration issued numerous safety orders against contractors in 2013-2016, contractors have not yet taken any disciplinary measures against contractors who received safety orders."

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What has happened since:

Following an agreement between the Safety Administration and the Contractor Registrar, the Safety Administration began transferring materials to contracting companies that had contracted safety offenses. The firm estimates that materials have been transferred to several dozen companies, and so far, steps have been taken against about 10 companies:

Withdrawal of a permanent license: A permanent license is suspended from two companies: Parnass Parnass and Murshad Globe.

Three-year license suspension: Three companies have received a three-year suspension and a financial fine so far: A.R. Joseph Engineering, Ozen Brothers Company, and most recently Jacob Gilboa.

Suspending a suspended license and fine: According to the Ministry of Housing, five companies received a three-year suspended license for a year, and a fine of NIS 39,000: Buskila brothers, Shmuel Sharon & Co., a target for engineering and construction, and Damascus Mansour, and more recently Mahamed Tufik - a company Killed at her site in Kiryat Gat in May this year is operating from a heightened fall.

Other companies were invited to a hearing with the registrar, but no steps were taken against them.

Licenses are permanently revoked or suspended on condition and fine

Construction site contractors (Photo: ShutterStock)

Here, we note that the three-year suspension does not mean that the contractor ceases to operate immediately, but that it can finish the projects already in progress - under the supervision and approval of the Safety Administration - but is not authorized to sign new contracts. The reason for this, the Housing Ministry says, is not to hurt home buyers who have already invested their money, took their mortgage and may have already sold another apartment.

A.R. Joseph applied to the court for a restraining order regarding the decision of the contractor's registrar to revoke her license, but the court rejected the request. Judge Yehuda Fargo wrote in his decision that: "The safety regulations at work are among the most important professional requirements," adding that "in the interests of Berry, the interest of maintaining public safety and employees should be prioritized over the interests of the applicant to continue to be allowed to work and undertake work. ".

The company claimed that the license was "disproportionate" because other contractors appearing on the list of contractors have as many safety warrants as those issued against the applicant. "The judge replied that" If this is true, it should be regretted and this does not invalidate the suspension order. Against the respondent. "

The Ear Brothers also filed for a suspension of its license, and it is still pending.

Ya'akov Gilboa, the latest to receive the announcement of the suspension, told Globes: "One of the Gilboa companies has received the decision of the contractor registrar and is studying it. At the same time, the company is working in full cooperation with the Safety Administration and the contractor's office to return without delay. The company has invited the Safety Administration to visit all sites on its own initiative, and the Administration has immediately agreed to this. As has always been the case, the Company is ready to invest every resource at its disposal for the safety of its employees. "

The scene of the accident in which he fell works to his death last November (Photo: MDA)

The scene of the incident in which he fell to his death runs a 60-year-old construction site in Jerusalem. November 28, 2019. (Photo: MDA)

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What next

About a year ago, the Ministry of Housing drafted an amendment to the Contract Registration Law, stating that "the contractor Ilan Eliyahu will be authorized to disqualify, refuse to renew, suspend and exercise his additional powers under the law, based on safety deficiencies, in accordance with the recommendation of the Ministry of Labor Safety."

In practice, the bill is intended to add tools to the safety registrar, including a tool to deal with fatal accidents - so that the firm can suspend a license immediately following a death event, subject to an on-site Safety Administration review, and a more appropriate hearing instrument mechanism. Safety and certainty for contractors and for the state. In the absence of the Knesset, the bill did not advance, and it is possible that the contractors will try to soften it as much as possible before passing.
the meaning:

Dr. Hadas Tagari, the group director for the fight against building and industrial accidents, says that "the disciplinary sanctions taken by the contractor's registrar for the first year last year constitute the most significant development in deterrence of safety lawlessness that occurred in the past year. It is also of great importance that the Registrar's decisions take a back seat in the district court's ruling on the appeal, which is a green light for the Registrar to continue to act resolutely.

"We are troubled that since the registrar's decisions made in the summer, no disciplinary proceedings have been taken against other companies, although a large number of their companies have an extensive negative safety record, some of which the group has recently approached. Unfortunately, during this period, fatal accidents occurred, "We are looking forward to a resumption of the proceedings against negligent contracting companies. The goal is to prevent workers from being harmed."