September 17, 2026

Arizona Repeals State Fall Protection Law After OSHA Demands Uniformity With Feds


February 10, 2015 at 04:10 PM
Arizona repealed a contentious state law that put in place residential fall protection requirements that differed from federal OSHA policy, caving on an issue that had embroiled the agencies for several years, and only after OSHA published a “rejection” of the state law and threatened to pull the state plan if the concern was not remedied.

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