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OR Rev Stat § 654.182 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.182 - Rules for ORS 654.176; contents.

(1) In carrying out ORS 654.176, the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall adopt rules that include, but are not limited to, provisions: (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]
OR Rev Stat § 654.189 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.189 - Safe Employment Education and Training Advisory Committee; members; terms; expenses; duties; meetings.

(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may appoint a Safe Employment Education and Training Advisory Committee composed of seven members: Three representing employees, three representing employers and one representing the Department of Consumer and Business Services. The committee shall elect its chairperson. (2) The members of the committee shall be appointed for a term of three years and shall serve at the pleasure of the director. Before the expiration of the term of a member, the director shall appoint a successor. A member is eligible for reappointment. If there is a vacancy for any cause, the director shall make an appointment to become immediately effective. (3) The members shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to travel expenses pursuant to ORS 292.495. (4) The duties of the committee shall be determined by the director and shall include, but not be limited to: (a) Recommending to the director: (A) Occupational Safety and Health Grant application procedures and criteria for grant approval; (B) Occupational Safety and Health Grant recipients; and (C) Revocation of grants to recipients failing to comply with grant criteria established by the director pursuant to ORS 654.191. (b) Receiving and processing Occupational Safety and Health Grant applications. (5) The committee shall meet at least once every three months at a place, day and hour determined by the committee. The committee shall also meet at other times and places specified by a majority of the members of the committee or the chairperson of the committee. A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. [1989 c.857 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 654.191 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.191 - Occupational Safety and Health Grant program; rules.

(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, in consultation with the Safe Employment Education and Training Advisory Committee, shall establish an Occupational Safety and Health Grant program to fund the education and training of employees in safe employment practices and conduct and to promote the development of employer-sponsored health and safety programs. (2) The director shall adopt rules establishing: (a) Grant application procedures and criteria for grant approval; and (b) Procedures for revocation of grants to recipients failing to comply with grant criteria established by the director pursuant to this section. (3) The director, after reviewing the recommendation of the Safe Employment Education and Training Advisory Committee, shall approve or deny an application for an Occupational Safety and Health Grant. If the director approves a grant under this section, the director shall set the amount of the grant awarded to the grant recipient. (4) The director shall monitor grant recipients for compliance with grant criteria and procedures established by the director. (5) The grants awarded under this section shall be funded only from the civil penalties paid into the Consumer and Business Services Fund under ORS 654.086. [1989 c.857 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 654.192 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.192 - Labor organization not liable for injury resulting from absence of safety or health provision.

When an employee incurs an injury compensable under ORS chapter 656, the discussion or furnishing, or failure to discuss or furnish, or failure to enforce any safety or health provision to protect employees against work injuries, in any collective bargaining agreement or negotiations thereon, shall not subject a labor organization representing the injured employee to any civil liability for the injury. [1981 c.488 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 654.196 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|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.

(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may by rule require employers to provide information to employees relating to the contents of piping systems. The rules shall include, but need not be limited to requirements for: (a) Labeling piping systems to provide notice about hazardous chemicals contained in the system; and (b) Labeling a piping system that uses asbestos as a pipe insulation material. (2) Every employer shall post a sign in the location where notices to employees are normally posted to inform employees that they have a right under this section and ORS 453.317 (6) to information from the employer regarding hazardous substances found in the place of employment. (3) The sign required under subsection (2) of this section shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information and shall be substantially in the following form: ______________________________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES You have a right under state law to information about hazardous substances found in your place of employment. For this information, contact your employer. ______________________________________________________________________________ (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or ORS 192.311 to 192.478, an employer may withhold the precise chemical name of a chemical only if the employer can substantiate that: (a) The chemical name is a trade secret with commercial value that can be protected only by limiting disclosure; and (b) The commercial value of the product cannot be preserved by withholding the processes, mixture percentages or other aspects of the production of the product instead of its chemical constituents. (5) A trade secret designation claimed under subsection (4) of this section may be subject to yearly review. (6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or ORS 192.311 to 192.478, if a treating physician or health professional concludes that the chemical identity of a hazardous chemical used in an employer’s place of employment is necessary to prescribe necessary treatment for a patient, the employer may not require the physician or health professional to sign a confidentiality agreement as a condition to the release of the information by the employer, manufacturer or importer. [1985 c.683 §§3,4,5; 1999 c.232 §2; 2005 c.825 §18] INJURED WORKERS’
OR Rev Stat § 654.200 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.200 - Scholarship account; use; standards for eligibility.

(1) There is established in the Consumer and Business Services Fund the Workers’ Memorial Scholarship Account. Only the interest earned on moneys in the account shall be used by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services for the establishment and administration of a scholarship program to pay education related expenses of the spouses and children of workers who are killed or who have received a permanent total disability award from injury on the job. A maximum of $1 million to carry out the provisions of this section may be credited to the account from civil penalties recovered pursuant to ORS 654.086. (2) The director shall consult with the Safe Employment Education and Training Advisory Committee established pursuant to ORS 654.189 in determining the appropriate scholarship standard and in selecting the recipients. [1991 c.395 §2; 1993 c.597 §1; 1999 c.1058 §1; 2017 c.635 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 654.202 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.202 - Issuance of warrants for safety and health inspections.

Magistrates authorized to issue search warrants may, upon application of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, or any public officer, agent or employee of the director acting in the course of official duties, issue an inspection warrant whenever an inspection or investigation of any place of employment is required or authorized by any state or local statute, ordinance or regulation relating to occupational safety or health. The inspection warrant is an order authorizing the safety or health inspection or investigation to be conducted at a designated place of employment. [1971 c.405 §1; 1973 c.833 §25; 1977 c.804 §41]
OR Rev Stat § 654.206 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.206 - Grounds for issuance of inspection warrants; requirements of affidavit.

(1) An inspection warrant shall be issued only upon cause, supported by affidavit, particularly describing the applicant’s status in applying for the warrant hereunder, the statute, ordinance or regulation requiring or authorizing the inspection or investigation, the place of employment to be inspected or investigated and the purpose for which the inspection or investigation is to be made including the basis upon which cause exists to inspect. In addition, the affidavit shall contain either a statement that entry has been sought and refused or facts or circumstances reasonably showing that the purposes of the inspection or investigation might be frustrated if entry were sought without an inspection warrant. (2) Cause shall be deemed to exist if reasonable legislative or administrative standards for conducting a routine, periodic or area inspection are satisfied with respect to the particular place of employment, or there is probable cause to believe that a condition of nonconformity with a safety or health statute, ordinance, regulation, rule, standard or order exists with respect to the particular place of employment, or an investigation is reasonably believed to be necessary in order to determine or verify the cause of an employee’s death, injury or illness. [1971 c.405 §2; 1973 c.833 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 654.212 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.212 - Procedure for issuance of inspection warrant by magistrate.

(1) Before issuing an inspection warrant, the magistrate may examine under oath the applicant and any other witness and shall be satisfied of the existence of grounds for granting such application. (2) If the magistrate is satisfied that cause for the inspection or investigation exists and that the other requirements for granting the application are satisfied, the magistrate shall issue the warrant, particularly describing the name and title of the person or persons authorized to execute the warrant, the place of employment to be entered and the purpose of the inspection or investigation. The warrant shall contain a direction that it be executed on any day of the week between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., or where the magistrate has specially determined upon a showing that it cannot be effectively executed between those hours, that it be executed at any additional or other time of the day or night. [1971 c.405 §3; 1973 c.833 §27; 1987 c.158 §126]
OR Rev Stat § 654.216 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.216 - Execution of inspection warrants.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, in executing an inspection warrant, the person authorized to execute the warrant shall, before entry, make a reasonable effort to present the person’s credentials, authority and purpose to an occupant or person in possession of the place of employment designated in the warrant and show the occupant or person in possession of the place of employment the warrant or a copy thereof upon request. (2) In executing an inspection warrant, the person authorized to execute the warrant need not inform anyone of the person’s authority and purpose, as prescribed in subsection (1) of this section, but may promptly enter the designated place of employment if it is at the time unoccupied or not in the possession of any person or at the time reasonably believed to be in such condition. (3) A peace officer may be requested to assist in the execution of the inspection warrant. (4) An inspection warrant must be executed and returned to the magistrate by whom it was issued within 10 days from its date, unless such magistrate before the expiration of such time, by indorsement thereon, extends the time for five days. After the expiration of the time prescribed by this subsection, the warrant unless executed is void. [1971 c.405 §4; 1973 c.833 §28]
OR Rev Stat § 654.225 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.225

[Amended by 1959 c.516 §1; renumbered 654.047]
OR Rev Stat § 654.235 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.235

[Amended by 1959 c.516 §2; renumbered 654.062]
OR Rev Stat § 654.251 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.251 - Assistance to director from other state agencies; inspection of farm labor camps and facilities.

(1) The Bureau of Labor and Industries and any other state agency which is vested under separate statute with the authority to make inspections of places of employment, or to promulgate regulations, rules or standards relating to particular areas of occupational safety and health, shall render such advice and assistance to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services as the director may reasonably request or prescribe in order to carry out the purposes of ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780. When any state agency completes an inspection of a place of employment, it shall promptly notify the director and the affected employer of any condition that may violate any occupational safety or health law, regulation, rule or standard. (2) In addition to the inspection authority granted to the director and the representatives and designees of the director by ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780, the Bureau of Labor and Industries may inspect farm labor camps, fields and facilities prior to occupancy and as reasonably necessary or appropriate thereafter, and shall report any violation of occupational safety or health laws, regulations, rules or standards to the director or the designees of the director. [1973 c.833 §32 (enacted in lieu of 654.100); 1987 c.414 §160]
OR Rev Stat § 654.255 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.255

[Amended by 1955 c.643 §1; 1957 c.492 §1; 1959 c.516 §3; renumbered 654.092]
OR Rev Stat § 654.265 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.265

[Amended by 1955 c.644 §1; renumbered 654.093]
OR Rev Stat § 654.270 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.270

[Renumbered 654.094]
OR Rev Stat § 654.275 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.275

[Amended by 1959 c.516 §4; renumbered 654.096]
OR Rev Stat § 654.285 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.285 - Admissibility of rules and orders of department in evidence in proceedings under ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780.

Except as provided in ORS 654.078 (7), every regulation, rule, standard, finding, decision and order of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, general or special, made and entered under the provisions of ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780 and which has become final by operation of law or on appeal, shall be admissible as evidence in any hearing, civil proceeding or criminal prosecution conducted under the provisions of this chapter and shall, in every such hearing, proceeding or prosecution, be conclusively presumed to be reasonable and lawful and to fix a reasonable and proper standard and requirement of safety and health. [Formerly 654.085; 1977 c.804 §42]
OR Rev Stat § 654.290 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.290 - Applicability of Administrative Procedures Act; Administrative Law Judge qualifications.

(1) Promulgation by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services or by the Workers’ Compensation Board of regulations, rules and standards authorized by ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780, and any judicial review thereof, shall be as provided in ORS chapter 183. (2) Notwithstanding ORS 183.315 (1), the issuance of orders pursuant to ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780, the conduct of hearings in contested cases and the judicial review thereof shall be as provided in ORS chapter 183, except that: (a) The chairperson of the Workers’ Compensation Board or the designee of the chairperson shall employ Administrative Law Judges to hold hearings in contested cases. (b) The order of an Administrative Law Judge in a contested case shall be deemed to be a final order of the board. (c) The director shall have the same right to judicial review of the order of an Administrative Law Judge as any person who is adversely affected or aggrieved by such final order. (d) Affected employees or their authorized representative shall be accorded an opportunity to participate as parties in hearings. (3) Administrative Law Judges shall be members in good standing of the Oregon State Bar and possess such other qualifications as the board may prescribe, and shall be employed in accordance with ORS 656.724. [1973 c.833 §35 (enacted in lieu of 654.040, 654.065, 654.070, 654.075 and 654.080); 1975 c.759 §18; 1977 c.804 §43; 1999 c.876 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 654.293 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.293 - Representation of employer by attorney permitted.

Neither ORS 9.320 nor any provision in the Oregon Safe Employment Act shall be construed to deny an employer the right to be represented by an attorney or any other authorized representative designated by the employer in any proceedings under ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780. [1975 c.370 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 654.295 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.295 - Application of Oregon Safe Employment Act.

(1) Nothing contained in ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780 shall invalidate any existing occupational safety or health regulation, rule, standard or order which is not clearly inconsistent with the purposes and provisions of ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780. (2) Where any part of a law, regulation, rule, standard or order is found to be clearly inconsistent with ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780 and declared to be invalid, it is the intent of the Legislative Assembly that the remaining provisions of such law, regulation, rule, standard or order remain in effect as fully as if the invalid part had not been adopted. [1973 c.833 §36]
OR Rev Stat § 654.305 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.305 - Protection and safety of persons in hazardous employment generally.

Generally, all owners, contractors or subcontractors and other persons having charge of, or responsibility for, any work involving a risk or danger to the employees or the public shall use every device, care and precaution that is practicable to use for the protection and safety of life and limb, limited only by the necessity for preserving the efficiency of the structure, machine or other apparatus or device, and without regard to the additional cost of suitable material or safety appliance and devices. [Amended by 1997 c.249 §199]
OR Rev Stat § 654.310 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.310 - Places of employment; compliance with applicable orders, rules.

All owners, contractors, subcontractors, or persons whatsoever, engaged in the construction, repairing, alteration, removal or painting of any building, bridge, viaduct or other structure, or in the erection or operation of any machinery, or in the manufacture, transmission and use of electricity, or in the manufacture or use of any dangerous appliance or substance, shall see that all places of employment are in compliance with every applicable order, decision, direction, standard, rule or regulation made or prescribed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services pursuant to ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780. [Amended by 1975 c.148 §1; 1977 c.804 §44]