Agriculture

Helps workers understand how to reduce the dangers from pesticides.

English  07/17/2015

Ayuda a los trabajadores entender como reducir los peligros de los pesticidas.

Spanish  07/17/2015

Describes how to protect your employees from agricultural respiratory hazards and how to develop an effective respiratory protection program.

English  Order printed copy  08/31/2018

The guidebook is intended to provide applicants and licensees with knowledge and tools for establishing and operating OLCC-licensed recreational marijuana businesses.

English  06/30/2016

Offers general rule-related requirements and recommendations for agricultural employers to create a safer workplace.

English  06/06/2012

A reference guide for employers engaged in Oregon OSHA’s agriculture activities (Division 4).

English  Order printed copy  05/27/2022

Describes the two types of heat illness: heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Gives tips on how to stay safe and healthy when working in the heat.

English  Order printed copy  06/21/2022

Helps employers and employees understand the requirements for personal protective equipment (PPE) that are listed on pesticide product labels. Gives general advice about best practices for cleaning, maintaining, and storing PPE along with guidelines for choosing the most effective PPE from head to toe.

English  Order printed copy  10/30/2018

Ayuda a los trabajadores entender como reducir los peligros de los pesticidas.

Spanish  Order printed copy  06/03/2019

Covers safe practices for employees who work around hazardous chemicals and pesticides.

English  Order printed copy  06/03/2019

Describes how to comply with Oregon OSHA's safety committees and safety meetings requirements for agricultural employers: 437-004-0251.

English  Order printed copy  12/21/2020

Describe el agotamiento por el calor, la insolación, y las maneras importantes para prevenir estas enfermedades.

Spanish  Order printed copy  06/21/2022

Describes what employers must do to comply with the Worker Protection Standard and gives Oregon-specific requirements.

English  Order printed copy  03/11/2020

Describes the symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia, with instructions on how to help sufferers.

English  Order printed copy  08/19/2005

Describes the symptoms of heat stress and heat stroke, with instructions on how to help sufferers.

English  Order printed copy  06/30/2022

Describe los síntomas de agotamiento por el calor e insolación, con instrucciones en cómo ayudar a los afectados

Spanish  Order printed copy  06/30/2022

Describe los síntomas de congelación parcial y la hipotermia, con instrucciones en cómo ayudar a los afectados

Spanish  Order printed copy  08/19/2005

Read this fact sheet to find out what you should know about using an ATV on the job.

English  02/08/2016

Describes Aluminum phosphide health hazards and how to prepare a fumigation management plan for burrowing pests

English  03/19/2014

Describes aluminum phosphide health hazards and how to prepare a fumigation management plan for structures.

English  03/19/2014

Describes where to store agricultural pesticides and chemicals, safe practices for storing chemicals, and how to respond to emergencies.

English  10/03/2018

Describes requirements for drinking water, toilets, and hand-washing facilities that must be provided for workers who do agricultural hand labor.

English  11/12/2019

GHS training requirements for agricultural employers.

English  11/06/2014

Agricultural employers in rural areas often face additional challenges during emergencies. Issues such as distance to emergency medical services, fewer (or less maintained) roads, and little or no cellphone service can make emergencies more difficult, especially when accessing care for sick or injured workers. This fact sheet provides employers with information to help create a strong emergency medical plan.

English  02/02/2022

Los empleadores deben desarrollar e implementar un horario de descanso que proteja a los empleados expuestos a un índice de calor igual o superior a 90 grados Fahrenheit.

Spanish  06/16/2022

Outlines Oregon OSHA's PPE requirements for agricultural employers, including examples of hazards with the appropriate PPE.

English  10/10/2022

Describe como proteger a los trabajadores de respirar sustancias dañinas y resume las partes de un programa efectivo de protección de la respiración.

Spanish  11/07/2007

Provides information about tractor hazards, along with safety measures to better protect tractor operators.

English  09/08/2017

Fact sheet describing the key requirements of Oregon OSHA’s permanent rules for protection from wildfire smoke, effective July 1, 2022.

English  06/10/2022

A partir del 1.º de julio de 2022, las reglas adoptadas por Oregon OSHAse aplicarán a los empleadores cuyos empleados estén expuestos a peligrosos de humo causado por los incendios forestales.

Spanish  06/10/2022

Describes how to protect employees from breathing harmful substances and summarizes elements of an effective respiratory protection program.

English  04/17/2009

Describes agricultural employer's responsibilities for protecting employees who are exposed to respiratory health hazards. Also summarizes the elements of an effective respiratory protection program

Russian  11/07/2007

Employers must develop and implement a written rest break schedule that protects employees exposed to a heat index equal to or greater than 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

English  05/31/2022

Summarizes the key requirements for Oregon OSHA's safety committee and safety meeting rule for agricultural employers - 437-004-0251.

English  01/05/2011

Explains the requirements of 437-004-0240, Safety Orientation for Seasonal Workers, which applies to agricultural employers who hire seasonal workers.

English  02/23/2012

Defines the various water temperature terms and requirements that ensure employers provide workers with cold, cool, tepid, warm, or hot water for drinking, bathing, hand washing, laundering clothes, etc.

English  08/11/2022

This plan is required by the fumigant label to be completed for every application of aluminum or magnesium phosphide products for burrowing rodents.  Common names for these products include: Fumitoxin, Phostoxin, Gastoxin or Phosfume.

English  Word version  01/05/2012

An example agriculture-specific respiratory protection form for when respirators are REQUIRED for normal work operations and emergencies.

English  Word version  10/31/2014

An example agriculture-specific respiratory protection form for the voluntary use of respirators.

English  Word version  10/31/2014

Worker Protection Standard required pesticide information

English  Word version  10/31/2014

Agriculture employers are required to document each pesticide handler’s training and maintain that documentation for two years from the date of the training.

English  Word version  03/25/2019

Agriculture employers are required to document each worker’s training and maintain that documentation for two years from the date of the training.

English  Word version  03/25/2019

This guidance is for controlling health risks to workers from Class B biosolids during handling and land application.

English  07/30/2002

Hazard alert on engulfment and suffocation in grain bins.

English  10/03/2011

Describe los peligros en el proceso de la cosecha de avellanas y provee una guía para el desarrollo de operaciones seguras.

Spanish  05/31/2016

Beginning in the mid-1970s, standard small-bale forage balers began to be replaced by large-bale balers in the agricultural industry. The chance for serious injury or death to workers grows with the size and weight of bales. Bales that weigh more than 750 pounds put workers at especially high risk.

English  07/01/2001

Describes the hazards of the filbert harvesting process and gives guidelines for safe operations.

English  04/26/2016

Do not drill, cut, weld, or otherwise penetrate sealed frames of agricultural equipment.

English  07/05/1998

Hazard alert on how lime sulfur reacts to form deadly hydrogen sulfide gas.

English  04/08/2013

Explica los requisitos al conducir vehículos agrícolas y transportar trabajadores por vías públicas.

Spanish  05/29/2020

Explains the requirements when driving agricultural vehicles and transporting workers over public roadways.

English  05/29/2020

Large sticker with a diagram of what to do when a worker is sick or injured in an agricultural setting. Magnets are also available from our resource center or our online ordering system.

English  Order printed copy  01/04/2023

¡La ropa que usó mientras aplicaba pesticidas puede estar contaminada! Aplique esta imán en máquinas lavadoras y secadoras que podrían ser usadas por trabajadores que usan pesticidas.

Spanish  Order printed copy  03/21/2022

A magnet with instructions on how to wash clothing worn while applying pesticides

English  Order printed copy  02/15/2011

Explica a los trabajadores acerca de los requisitos de sanidad en el campo y los riesgos individuales a la salud.

Spanish  Order printed copy  06/06/2022

Lista de consejos para prevenir enfermedad por el calor.

Spanish  

A bright 8 1/2 x 11-inch notice on weatherproof paper that informs field workers of their employer's responsibilities to provide safe drinking water, toilets, and handwashing facilities.

English  Order printed copy  12/02/2020

This poster contains pesticide safety information that is required under the Worker Protection Standard.

English and Spanish  Order printed copy  07/25/2017

Gives tips to prevent heat illness.

English  06/24/2011

Lo que trabajadores del campo necesitan saber sobre los comités de seguridad y las reuniones de seguridad. - | - What farmworkers need to know about safety committees and safety meetings.

English Spanish  11/14/2022

Las volcaduras de tractores son los accidents que causan mayor pérdida de vida en las granjas. ¡Usted puede prevenir volcaduras de tractores! Las volcaduras de tractores son los accidentes que causan mayor pérdida de vida en las granjas. - | - Tractor rollovers are the most deadly accidents on farms. You can prevent tractor rollovers! Tractor rollovers are the most deadly accidents on farms.

Spanish  06/30/2011

We get many calls and emails from employers asking the same question. It begins: “Which of your rules have requirements for…” You can finish the sentence with words like “recordkeeping,” “employee training,” and “written documents.” To answer those questions, we’ve organized these rules requirements into a filterable, sortable, searchable table.

English  05/10/2019

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4-1998   Word version  

9-2006   Word version  

3-2014   Word version  

4-2012   Word version  

Administrative Order 2-2022   Word version  

4-2010   Word version  

3-2014   Word version  

4-1998   Word version  

3-2014   Word version  

9-2006   Word version  

7-2008   Word version  

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Administrative Order 4-2022   Word version  

10/15/2010

08/21/2002

08/23/2011

12/07/2005

08/02/2007

This guidance memo contains a number of questions and answers to use as examples and provide clarification in relation to the exemption of Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) for tractors used in orchards 437-004-3600(5)(a), and when that exemption can be utilized.

07/02/2020

12/06/2007

07/08/2011

Purpose: Provide guidance to assist the compliance officer in determining when an agriculture employer meets the inspection exemption requirements of OAR 437-001-0057(12).

A-214  05/04/2015

Purpose: This Program Directive explains how the safety and health scheduling lists will be created and the criteria and ranking factors that will be used to identify the places of employment the Director believes to be the most unsafe in the state of Oregon.

A-244  05/10/2012

Purpose: To establish and implement an LEP for field sanitation inspections and to provide guidelines for the inspection of agricultural establishments covered by the Field Sanitation Standard in Division 4, Agriculture.

A-174  08/11/2011

Purpose: To establish methods the enforcement staff will use to provide effective, efficient and consistent enforcement inspections in the variety of occupational sites where pesticides are made, used and stored.

A-235  02/28/2018

Purpose: This directive establishes field procedures for Oregon OSHA staff who will evaluate the adequacy of potable water from drinking water sources such as public or private water systems, wells or springs.

A-237  04/15/2019

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This video explains Oregon OSHA's application exclusion zone in the worker protection standard

Length: English  

This channel is a joint effort by all 10 Agricultural Safety and Health Centers to share the videos we have created. Video playlists include: Heat Illness (Español/Spanish)​, Livestock Safety, Forestry and Logging Safety, Needlestick Prevention, Pesticide Safety​, and many more.

Length: English  

Developed by the Oregon Association of Nurserymen by a workplace education and training grant from Oregon Occupational Safety and Health (Oregon OSHA)

Length: English  

Learn how to protect yourself while harvesting Christmas trees. Learn about protective clothing, equipment, techniques, and general safety guidelines.

Length: Spanish  

Available in both English and Spanish languages. EPA Approved training video for training agricultural workers about pesticides and the Worker Protection Standard (WPS). This video satisfies the pesticide safety training requirement for workers under the revised WPS effective January 1, 2016.

Length: Spanish  

Este video explica la zona de exclusión de aplicación de Oregon OSHA en el estándar de protección del trabajador.

Length: Spanish