Guidebooks

This guide consists of 26 "A-to-Z" workplace safety topics for construction-industry employers. Most topics include key construction-industry rules and summarize what's necessary to comply.

In this guide from Oregon OSHA you'll learn what you can do to protect your employees from agricultural respiratory hazards. You'll learn about the basic types of respirators and how to develop an effective respiratory protection program - the main requirement of Oregon OSHA's respiratory protection standard for agriculture.
See list of forms for Respiratory Protection located on the included CD.

Covers what construction employers need to know about asbestos removal and maintenance based on the requirements of OR-OSHA's asbestos standard for the construction industry: 1926.1101.

Informs employers and employees how to prevent back injuries caused by lifting and moving patients; includes evaluation tools and checklists.

Summarizes Oregon OSHA's training requirements for employers.

Helps employers and employees understand Oregon OSHA's requirements for preventing exposure to hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other bloodborne pathogens, including hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Describes respiratory hazards and how to protect workers; includes guidelines for developing a respiratory protection program and a CD with customizable written program materials.
See list of forms for Respiratory Protection located on the included CD.

This guide is based on the requirements in Oregon OSHA's standard for hazardous energy control - Subdivision 2/J, 1910.147, which protects employees who could be injured as a result of the unexpected release of hazardous energy. The requirements apply when an employee doing service or maintenance work on a machine or equipment could be injured by the unexpected start-up or release of hazardous energy. Lockout and tagout are the primary methods of controlling hazardous energy.

This guide covers Subdivision CC's key requirements - requirements that are especially relevant for small-business contractors. The guide also highlights eight common crane accidents. It describes why they happen and includes the requirements of Subdivision CC that can prevent them from happening.

Includes smart practices for 39 work-related topics that can help you achieve a safer workplace. They're "smart" because they remind you and your employees about workplace hazards and ways to avoid them.

Offers a simple, hands-on approach to workplace ergonomics that can work regardless of the size of your organization. It is designed for owners, supervisors, and employees as they work toward improving their workplace.

Describe las prácticas de seguridad en el uso de escaleras portátiles.

Portable Ladders: How to use them so they won't let you down
Describes safe work practices for using portable ladders.

Tells you how to evaluate a computer workstation so you can set it up correctly, highlights solutions to common physical problems related to computer use, and presents related health issues. Also includes checklists to help you conduct a workstation evaluation and purchase appropriate work-station components.

Describes Oregon OSHA's safety requirements for excavation work.

Helps employers and employees plan for workplace emergencies. Covers Oregon OSHA's emergency planning requirements, types of emergencies, and how to prepare an emergency plan.

Describes fall protection concepts for construction industry employers, employees, and others who don't have a professional background in fall protection and who want to see the "big picture." Also covers OR-OSHA's fall-protection rules for Oregon construction-industry employers.

This guide for logging was developed in conjunction with the US Forest Service

This guide includes all Oregon OSHA rules that require employers to follow manufacturer's instructions along with an excerpt of the requirement.

This guide is about what it takes to make a workplace safe. It describes the fundamentals of a sound safety and health program, which are based on seven key management activities.

Helps you understand HAZWOPER - the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response standard: 1910.120. This guide won?t give you complete HAZWOPER enlightenment, but it will help you understand HAZWOPER and determine how to comply.

Describes basic hearing conservation concepts; includes information on engineering controls, administrative controls, and key elements of a hearing conservation program.

Tells you about the hazards of crystalline silica and teaches you about silicosis, what causes it, and how to prevent it.

Acquaints readers with OR-OSHA requirements for landscape contractors.

This guide helps you understand and comply with the key requirements of Oregon OSHA?s lead rule for the construction industry, 1926.62.

Machines that have moving parts and workers who operate them have a dangerous relationship at the "point of operation" - where the machine cuts, shears, punches, bends, or drills. This guide focuses on point-of-operation hazards and safeguarding methods; it offers a comprehensive look at equipment and machinery found in many Oregon workplaces and covers current machine-guarding requirements.

Focuses on confined spaces that may contain life-threatening hazards ? permit-required confined spaces, or permit spaces. Describes how to identify a permit space, covers OR-OSHA permit space standard and includes a CD with a generic permit-space program that you can use as a model for your own program.
See list of forms for Confined Spaces located on the included CD.

This guide introduces the concept of hazard communication as it aligns with the Globally Harmonized System of classification and labeling chemicals. This guide helps employers develop a hazard communication program and provides an overview of OR-OSHA's hazard communication rules.

The Pesticide Worker Protection Standard reference guide outlines what employers must do to comply with the Worker Protection Standard, which is a federal regulation designed to protect agricultural workers and pesticide handlers.

Describes key safe work practices for using portable ladders safely.

A detailed description of the safe operation of powered industrial trucks (forklifts), training program requirements, and conditions for safe operation.

This guide explains how to do a workplace hazard assessment to determine what PPE your employees need to protect themselves. You?ll learn: *What a PPE hazard assessment is *Why you should do a PPE hazard assessment *When your employees should use PPE *How to do a PPE hazard assessment. This guide also gives you a link to a convenient hazard assessment form that you can download and use to do your own hazard assessment

An overview of the OR-OSHA standard on exposure to hazardous chemicals in laboratories, with information on chemical hygiene, employee training, personal protective equipment, recordkeeping, and other topics. (on-line only)

Summarizes Oregon OSHA's rules that have requirements for written programs and other materials.

Includes OSHA Forms and instruction for recording work-related injuries and illnesses.

Formularios de OSHA para registrar lesiones y enfermedades relacionadas con en el trabajo.

Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (OSHA 300 log)
OSHA forms to record work-related injuries and illnesses.

Covers safe practices for employees who do hand-labor work or are exposed to hazardous chemicals. Available in other languages; call the OR-OSHA Resource Center for details.

Describes how to comply with Oregon OSHA's Safety Committees and Safety Meetings rule for general industry and construction employers - 437-001-0765.

Describes how to comply with Oregon OSHA's new Safety Committees and Safety Meetings rule for agricultural employers - 437-004-0251.

This guide is for anyone who wants to understand construction industry best practices for using supported scaffolds. The guide also includes requirements for supported scaffolds in Oregon OSHA's scaffold standard for the construction industry (Division 3, Subdivision L, Scaffolding).

Training for Safe and Effective Logging Techniques

An overview of safety and health rules for underground construction, including worker training, air monitoring, fire prevention and hazard communication, recordkeeping and other topics.

This guide from Oregon OSHA, targeted for the construction industry, covers vehicle safety best practices for small-business owners and their employees. The guide also has a sample vehicle safety program that you can modify and use as your own.

Covers workplace violence, its sources, and employers' legal obligations. Provides guidelines for reducing workplace violence through a workplace-violence-prevention plan.

The material in the handbook is intended to reinforce safe practices in a hazardous work environment, based on Oregon OSHA Division 7 Forest Activities safety and health standards, and generations of practical experience in Oregon logging. The main intent is to provide loggers with a readable, easy-to-use resource. (on-line only)

This booklet focuses on safety hazards and injury prevention in Oregon logging operations by examining 18 fatalities associated with rigging, landing, maintenance, skidding machinery, helicopter logging and transportation. The prevention recommendations listed in this booklet are based on elements of an "Effective Logging Safety and Health Management Plan" and related safety rules. (web only)

This booklet tells the stories of young workers aged 16-24 who were killed on the job in Oregon from 2003 through 2006. Each page is designed as an independent hazard alert, which may be copied and posted separately.