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The governing authority is the OSHA General Duty Clause, this clause and decisions made by courts in respect to it indicate that where OSHA has no specific requirements they can, and must look to industry consensus standards. ANSI standards are Industry consensus standards particularly when the are harmonized to international standards. In short you can be cited for violating an industry consensus standard. A review of the standard would show that there are options with respect to stop points of Robots hard stops are one (and the least expensive) but there are others.