Dive summary:

• Home-construction companies now have until Match 15 before the Occupational Health and Safety Administration begins permanent enforcement of fall-protection standards that it promulgated in 2011.
• The National Association of Home Builders is using the time to push its request that OSHA come up with rules that address real world of building houses.
• It just does not make sense, NAHB argues, to have one standard to cover both commercial and residential situations and OSHA has been using temporary enforcement protocols that embrace priority free on-site compliance assistance, penalty reductions, extended abatement dates, measures to ensure consistency and increased outreach.

From the article:

"After years of interpretations, compliance directives, and guidance documents that have failed to ensure compliance and improve safety, NAHB is convinced that the most beneficial way to address falls in the residential construction industry is for OSHA to promulgate a standard specifically tailored for residential construction." ...