(a) Prescribing the membership of the committees to ensure equal numbers of employees, who are volunteers or are elected by their peers, and employer representatives and specifying the frequency of meetings.
(b) Requiring employers to make adequate written records of each meeting and to file and maintain the records subject to inspection by the director.
(c) Requiring employers to compensate employee representatives on safety committees at the regular hourly wage while the employees are engaged in safety committee training or are attending safety committee meetings.
(d) Prescribing the duties and functions of safety committees, which include, but are not limited to:
(A) Establishing procedures for workplace safety inspections by the committee.
(B) Establishing procedures for investigating all safety incidents, accidents, illnesses and deaths.
(C) Evaluating accident and illness prevention programs.
(e) Prescribing guidelines for the training of safety committee members.
(f) Prescribing alternate forms of safety committees and safety meetings to meet the special needs of small employers, agricultural employers and employers with mobile worksites.
(2) An employer that is a member of a multiemployer group operating under a collective bargaining agreement that contains provisions regulating the formation and operation of a safety committee that meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of this section and ORS 654.176 shall be considered to have met the requirements of this section and ORS 654.176. [1981 c.488 §3; 1990 c.2 §2; 1991 c.746 §2; 2007 c.448 §2]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment
Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health
Section 654.005 - Definitions.
Section 654.020 - Interference with safety devices or methods prohibited; civil penalty.
Section 654.035 - Scope of rules and orders.
Section 654.056 - Variance from safety or health standards; effect of variance on citations.
Section 654.082 - Prohibiting use of equipment involved in violation; red warning notice.
Section 654.097 - Consultative services required; program standards; rules.
Section 654.101 - Voluntary safety and health consultation; refusal to disclose report.
Section 654.130 - Proceedings against unwilling witnesses.
Section 654.150 - Sanitary facilities at construction projects; standards; exemptions.
Section 654.165 - Employees not required to work bare-handed or rubber-gloved on high voltage lines.
Section 654.172 - Exemption from inspection or investigation for certain agricultural activities.
Section 654.182 - Rules for ORS 654.176; contents.
Section 654.191 - Occupational Safety and Health Grant program; rules.
Section 654.200 - Scholarship account; use; standards for eligibility.
Section 654.206 - Grounds for issuance of inspection warrants; requirements of affidavit.
Section 654.212 - Procedure for issuance of inspection warrant by magistrate.
Section 654.216 - Execution of inspection warrants.
Section 654.295 - Application of Oregon Safe Employment Act.
Section 654.330 - Fellow servant negligence as defense.
Section 654.345 - Safety standards for utility vehicle rentals.
Section 654.402 - Activities permitted under other designation, certification or license.
Section 654.412 - Definitions for ORS 654.412 to 654.423.
Section 654.413 - Required policies regarding surgical smoke.
Section 654.416 - Required records of assaults against employees; contents; summary report; rules.
Section 654.421 - Refusal to treat certain patients by home health care employee.
Section 654.423 - Use of physical force by health care employee in self-defense against assault.
Section 654.750 - Definitions for ORS 654.750 to 654.780.
Section 654.760 - Rules on hazardous chemicals, safety equipment and training.