They offered competing views on the essence of the election: Mr. Christie characterized it as a contest between the Democratic incumbent's expansionist government and his more modest approach, that would tend mainly to the basics: health, safety and welfare.
Religious groups agree to follow basic health and safety requirements in exchange for being allowed to teach, discipline and hire as they please.
Some housing advocacy groups think that as long as landlords adhere to basic health and safety policies, then rules about conversions should be relaxed.
The only ones to pass have been modest, requiring religious day care centers to comply with basic health and safety regulations and compelling agencies that care for children to register employees with the state.
There are myriad committees that exist to ensure that basic health and safety provisions, or consumer and environmental standards, are maintained by a wide range of enterprises operating across the EU's 28 member states.
Prepared with the help of University of Texas researchers, it found that two-thirds of 312 construction workers surveyed had not received basic health and safety training and that three-fourths had no health insurance.
Contractors commissioned by Qatar's largest state-owned corporations hold their imported workforce to ransom; too often fail to abide by basic health and safety requirements on potentially lethal construction sites, withhold money in penalties if men fall sick and fail to pay them for months.
It is expected to face legal challenges, in particular on the grounds that it hinders interstate commerce, but the state attorney general has testified that he believes the bill can withstand them, in part because the commerce clause in the United States Constitution allows an exception for states protecting the basic health and safety of their citizens.
He said the New Zealand example of a legal regulatory regime of less dangerous products needed to be explored: "It is to the great credit of the Home Office that it is prepared to look beyond prohibition, and toward alternatives that will provide basic health and safety for otherwise vulnerable users," said Kushlick.
