OSHA Rejects Arizona Fall Protection Rule; Arizona Starts Enforcing Federal Standard

The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has rejected Arizona’s standard for residential construction fall protection, OSHA administrator David Michaels announced in a notice published in the Feb. 6 Federal Register (80 Fed. Reg. 6,652).

Later on Feb. 6, Laura McGrory, director of the Industrial Commission of Arizona, announced that as of Feb. 7, the state standard was repealed and employers in the state would have to comply with the federal standard (29 C.F.R. § 1926 Subpart M).

Arizona’s repeal of the rule and adoption of the federal standard essentially ends the dispute between ...