Class 5606
Code 5606 is intended to cover the project manager, construction executive, construction manager, or construction superintendent of both specialty and general contracting risks. The project manager, etc., will spend some time in the office and the remainder of time visiting various job sites conferring with the job superintendent or foreperson to keep track of the progress of the work being conducted at each job or project. The qualifications established for the use of Code 5606 are that the project manager, etc., of a construction or erection concern must be exercising supervision through superintendents or forepeople of the employer and cannot have direct charge over the workers at the construction or erection site. The project manager may also exercise supervision through subcontractors, superintendents, or forepeople, but each subcontractor must have an on-site superintendent or foreperson at each and every job site. The important element is determining their job duties and not their title as well as that the supervision must be indirect rather than direct.
When terms such as “all employees,” “all other employees,” “all operations,” and “all operations to completion” appear in the phraseology of a construction or erection operation applicable to an insured, Code 5606 may also be assigned to those employees who are otherwise qualified to be assigned to Code 5606.
Class 5606
This classification is available only to project managers, construction executives, construction managers, or construction superintendents having administrative or managerial responsibility for construction or erection projects. When determining eligibility, it is the job duties that are the main consideration and not the job titles.
1.“Project Manager, Construction Executive, Construction Manager, or Construction Superintendent” are defined as those persons exercising operational control indirectly through full-time job supervisors or foremen of the employer.
2. When exercising control through a subcontractor, each subcontractor must have a job supervisor or foreman at the specific job site in order to permit the assignment of this classification. The supervisor or foreman of the subcontractor may manage one site or multiple sites. If any of the subcontractors do not have a job supervisor or foreman at any job site visited by the construction executive, all of the payroll of the construction executive for that policy year is assigned to the highest rated construction class code applicable. A sole proprietor or owner/operator with no employees, working as a subcontractor for the insured, would prevent the assignment of this classification to a construction executive because the subcontractor does not have the required job supervisor or foreman.
3. This code does not apply to any person who is directly in charge of or who is performing any degree of actual construction work. Such person must be assigned to the classification that specifically describes the type of construction or erection operation over which they are exercising direct supervisory control provided separate payroll records are maintained for each operation. Any such operation for which separate payroll records are not maintained must be assigned to the highest rated classification that applies to the job or location where the operation is performed.
4. Code 5606 is not available for division of a single employee’s payroll with any other classification.