But there were still problems — the directive did not clearly define “residential” construction, and everyone had a different interpretation. Under the 1995 standard, you were required to have a written Fall Protection Plan created specifically for your company, listing by name the individuals who would administer the plan. It had to address the specific hazards that you might face and how you intended to deal with them, and it had to be site specific. If you built the same single-family home at four different locations, you’d need to rewrite the plan for each house. In order to use an alternative method, you first had to show that the conventional method either
