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Rules and Compliance
Oregon
OSHA's rules are separated into divisions. Division 1 applies to all employers
in addition to any of the rules in Divisions 2-7. Divisions 3-7 deal with specific
industries. Division 2 covers employers that are not explicitly covered by Divisions
3-7.
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Final (current regulations)
- ORS 654 - The Oregon
Safe Employment Act
The statute requires employers to provide each employee a place of employment that is free from recognized hazards.
ORS 658 - Farmworker Camps
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This division primarily sets the rules of how Oregon OSHA operates, but also includes general requirements that apply to all places of employment.
- Division 2, General Occupational Safety and Health Rules
Safety and health rules that apply to all places of employment that are not covererd by Divsions 3-7. Most workplaces are covered by Division 2.
- Division 3, Construction
Rules that apply to all construction activity, including demolition, blasting, and use of explosives.
- Division 4, Agriculture
Rules that apply to all agricultural operations with a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code of 01, 02, and 0711, 0721, 0722, 0723, 0761, 0762, and 0811.
- Division 5, Maritime Activities
Rules that apply to shipyards, marine terminals, and longshoring.
- Division 7, Forest Activities
Rules that apply to all forest activities, including chemical application, chipping, clearing and slash disposal, firefighting, forest road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, log dumps, ponds, plant-site log yards and independent sort yards, log hauling, marking, pulpwood and non-pulpwood logging, reforestation/vegetation management, stream restoration, timber cutting and thinning operations, and timber cruising.
For those who struggle to remember division distinctions, we offer:
An Ode to the Code
All workers here beneath the sun
Are covered by Division One
If industry pertains to you
Please consult Division Two
Construction workers, you will be
Enlightened by Division Three
In agriculture, know the score
As given in Division Four
Division Five, as ever, stands,
But comes to us from Federal Hands
While foresters do under heaven
Find guidance in Division Seven
O blessed codes, true and exact!
Fair children of the OSEAct!
In health and safety may we be
Kept in faithfulness to thee.
- Don Harris
