April 4, 2014 at 01:00 PM
Arizona's two Republican senators led by John McCain are demanding that federal OSHA back off a threat to take jurisdiction of construction standards enforcement from the state's OSHA plan, after a new state law kicked in that replaces federally issued mandates on residential fall protection with less stringent requirements, particularly over the contentious issue of how best to guard workers from building falls between 6 and 15 feet.