After all, we have ceded Washington the right to control our lives in the name of safety, health-care costs and protecting children. There is no logical end to what Washington can do in the name of those goals. By the way, it also should come as no surprise that the very people who want to interfere with and control our lives are the very people who are the strongest advocates of the steady erosion of our Second Amendment guarantees. That way, we'd have little recourse to their insidious encroachment, thereby giving them a freer hand. But there's another possible explanation behind OSHA's home workplace rules.
People working at home are more difficult to organize.
Work rules such as the number of hours, who can do what job and whether children are working are more difficult to enforce. Therefore, if OSHA can make the home workplace more costly, fewer people will work at home, and more will work at traditional workplaces where employee organization and control is easier.