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.

• Division 1, General Administrative Rules

  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, 0783, 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.