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Section 654.003 - Purpose. - (1) Encourage employers and employees to reduce the number of...
Section 654.005 - Definitions. - (1) "Board" means the Workers’ Compensation Board created by ORS...
Section 654.020 - Interference with safety devices or methods prohibited; civil penalty. - (2) If an employee is injured as a result of...
Section 654.025 - Jurisdiction and supervision of Workers’ Compensation Board, director and other state agencies over employment and places of employment; rules. - (2) The director and the Workers’ Compensation Board may make,...
Section 654.035 - Scope of rules and orders. - (a) Declare and prescribe what devices, safeguards or other means...
Section 654.056 - Variance from safety or health standards; effect of variance on citations. - (2) The director may grant a temporary variance only if...
Section 654.062 - Notice of violation to employer by worker; complaint by worker to director; inspection; protection of complaining employees; rebuttable presumption. - (2) However, any employee or representative of the employee may...
Section 654.067 - Inspection of places of employment; denial of access; warrants; safety and health consultation with employees. - (a) To enter without delay and at reasonable times any...
Section 654.071 - Citation for safety or health standard violations; effect of failure to correct violation; posting of citations and notices by employer. - (2) Each citation and notice required by subsection (1) of...
Section 654.078 - Contesting violations; hearing; admissibility in criminal or civil proceedings of stipulations involving violations. - (2) An affected employee or representative of such employees may...
Section 654.082 - Prohibiting use of equipment involved in violation; red warning notice. - (2) No person shall use or operate any place of...
Section 654.086 - Civil penalty for violations; classification of violations; payment and disposition of penalty moneys. - (a) Any employer who receives a citation for a serious...
Section 654.090 - Occupational safety and health activities; voluntary compliance; rules; consultative services. - (1) Develop greater knowledge and interest in the causes and...
Section 654.097 - Consultative services required; program standards; rules. - (b) A self-insured employer shall establish and implement an occupational...
Section 654.101 - Voluntary safety and health consultation; refusal to disclose report. - (a) "Safety and health consultation" means a voluntary review or...
Section 654.120 - Records of proceedings; confidentiality of certain information; federal reporting requirements; rules. - (2) Each employer shall keep records, in the manner prescribed...
Section 654.130 - Proceedings against unwilling witnesses. - (2) The court, upon receiving the petition, shall enter an...
Section 654.150 - Sanitary facilities at construction projects; standards; exemptions. - (2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to...
Section 654.160 - Applicability of ORS 654.150 to be included in construction contracts; liability for cost of compliance. - (2) The owner of a construction site is liable to...
Section 654.165 - Employees not required to work bare-handed or rubber-gloved on high voltage lines. - Note: 654.165 was added to and made a part of...
Section 654.172 - Exemption from inspection or investigation for certain agricultural activities. - (a) There has not been a complaint filed pursuant to...
Section 654.174 - Sanitation facilities for workers harvesting food crops; employer to post notice; rules. - (a) Toilet facilities that are maintained in clean and sanitary...
Section 654.182 - Rules for ORS 654.176; contents. - (a) Prescribing the membership of the committees to ensure equal...
Section 654.189 - Safe Employment Education and Training Advisory Committee; members; terms; expenses; duties; meetings. - (2) The members of the committee shall be appointed for...
Section 654.191 - Occupational Safety and Health Grant program; rules. - (2) The director shall adopt rules establishing: (a) Grant application...
Section 654.196 - Rules on contents of piping systems; posting notice on right to be informed of hazardous substances; withholding of information under certain circumstances. - (a) Labeling piping systems to provide notice about hazardous chemicals...
Section 654.200 - Scholarship account; use; standards for eligibility. - (2) The director shall consult with the Safe Employment Education...
Section 654.206 - Grounds for issuance of inspection warrants; requirements of affidavit. - (2) Cause shall be deemed to exist if reasonable legislative...
Section 654.212 - Procedure for issuance of inspection warrant by magistrate. - (2) If the magistrate is satisfied that cause for the...
Section 654.216 - Execution of inspection warrants. - (2) In executing an inspection warrant, the person authorized to...
Section 654.251 - Assistance to director from other state agencies; inspection of farm labor camps and facilities. - (2) In addition to the inspection authority granted to the...
Section 654.290 - Applicability of Administrative Procedures Act; Administrative Law Judge qualifications. - (2) Notwithstanding ORS 183.315 (1), the issuance of orders pursuant...
Section 654.295 - Application of Oregon Safe Employment Act. - (2) Where any part of a law, regulation, rule, standard...
Section 654.330 - Fellow servant negligence as defense. - (1) Any defect in the structure, materials, works, plant or...
Section 654.345 - Safety standards for utility vehicle rentals. - (a) "Contracting agency" has the meaning given that term in...
Section 654.400 - Use of title of industrial hygienist, occupational health and safety technologist, construction health and safety technician or safety professional; cause of action. - (a) A certified industrial hygienist or use the initials CIH...
Section 654.402 - Activities permitted under other designation, certification or license. - Note: See note under 654.400.
Section 654.412 - Definitions for ORS 654.412 to 654.423. - (1) "Assault" means intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing physical injury....
Section 654.413 - Required policies regarding surgical smoke. - (2) The Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department...
Section 654.414 - Duties of health care employer; security and safety assessment; assault prevention program; requirements. - (a) Conduct periodic security and safety assessments to identify existing...
Section 654.416 - Required records of assaults against employees; contents; summary report; rules. - (a) The name and address of the premises on which...
Section 654.421 - Refusal to treat certain patients by home health care employee. - (2) An employee who provides home health care services may...
Section 654.423 - Use of physical force by health care employee in self-defense against assault. - (a) Was acting in self-defense in response to the use...
Section 654.715 - Report of accidents to Public Utility Commission; investigation; supplemental reports; rules. - (2) The Public Utility Commission may, if the commission deems...
Section 654.750 - Definitions for ORS 654.750 to 654.780. - (1) "Employee" means any individual, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed,...
Section 654.760 - Rules on hazardous chemicals, safety equipment and training. - (1) Provide adequate information to all of their employees about...
Section 654.991 - Penalties. - (2) Any person who gives advance notice of any inspection...