Roofers Focus On Compliance After Court Backs OSHA On Fall Protection

Roofing employers are turning their attention to working closely with OSHA to ensure compliance following an appeals court decision that will allow the agency to move forward with a new enforcement directive ending a longstanding policy of blanket exemptions to fall protection rules for some residential contractors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the challenge, brought in March by the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) and other petitioners from the industry. The petition asked the court to stay the directive, which OSHA issued in December, while litiga