DOB Revoked Every Redcode Safety Card. GCs Have Until December 10.

Every Site Safety Training and OSHA 30-hour card issued by Redcode Inc. has been revoked by the New York City Department of Buildings, and a worker holding one has until December 10 to replace it. On December 11 the cards stop counting, which means anyone still carrying one cannot lawfully work on a site where SST is required.

Why it matters

This is a criminal case that lands as a scheduling problem. Kings County District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced an indictment on September 8 charging Redcode Inc. and two Queens men with selling OSHA and Site Safety Training cards to people who never sat the training. The cards were real in the sense that they were issued; the training behind them was not. The Buildings Department’s response was to void the whole batch rather than audit it worker by worker, so a general contractor cannot assume a card in a wallet is good because it scans.

The work falls on employers. Replacement means finding seats at an approved provider for every affected worker before a fixed date, in the same quarter those workers are already on jobs, and a crew that shows up on December 11 with a voided card is a crew that cannot be put to work.

The numbers

The indictment covers conduct between April 22 and July 16 of 2025, when Department of Investigation undercover investigators posing as construction workers bought cards at $500 each. Prosecutors say the defendants had the buyers sign attendance sheets and then reported the training as completed to DOB and OSHA. Lutfur Rahman and Mohammed Tushar, both 34 and both of Queens, and the company face three counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, three counts of second-degree receiving reward for official misconduct, and six counts of second-degree falsifying business records. They were arraigned before Justice Danny Chun on September 8 and ordered back on November 4. Neither the district attorney nor the Buildings Department has published a count of how many cards are affected.

“Proper safety training is a foundational safeguard for everyone on a construction site,” Gonzalez said.

What’s next

Contractors should pull the training records for every worker on every active New York job now rather than in December, because approved-provider seats are the constraint, not the paperwork. The case returns to court November 4, and the revocation date does not move with it. Our wider New York coverage is tracking the enforcement wave running through the Buildings Department this month.