Health care

Easy calculator for analyzing lifting operations. Desktop, Android, and Apple versions available.

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

English  08/19/2005

Describes 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).

English  Order printed copy  05/23/2018

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (e.g. masks, gowns and gloves) protects healthcare personnel who are taking care of ill patients. Widespread use of PPE during the current COVID-19 pandemic has led to shortages of PPE, especially N95 respirators and facemasks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued recommendations1 on the use of PPE in general, as well as in resource-constrained environments. Implementing these recommendations locally depends on the epidemiology of COVID-19 and the current status of available resources.

English  04/06/2020

Provides information to help understanding, recognizing, and solving ergonomic hazards in long-term care.

English  Order printed copy  03/20/2009

Lift equipment sticker.

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Best Practices from consultation visits and other sources

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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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07/02/1997

10/07/1997

Purpose: To notify and provide guidance to hospital administrators, operating room personnel, dental office personnel, and Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (OR-OSHA) personnel regarding a potential hazard to operating room and dental office personnel due to chronic exposures to waste anesthetic gases.

A-205  06/29/2000

Purpose: This instruction describes policies and procedures for enforcement efforts to reduce occupational illness and injury in hospitals and nursing and residential care facilities.

A-284  11/27/2017

Purpose: This directive provides guidance to Oregon OSHA staff on the implementation of the laws and rules addressing the safety of healthcare employees and the requirement for recording health care assaults.

A-267  05/19/2008

Purpose: This instruction provides uniform inspection procedures and guidelines when conducting inspections and issuing citations under ORS 654, the Oregon Safe Employment Act, and pertinent standards for employees who are occupationally exposed to tuberculosis.

A-215  09/10/2018

Purpose: The purpose of this instruction is to provide general policies and procedures that apply when workplace violence is identified as a hazard while conducting an inspection at worksites in industries with a high incidence of workplace violence and when responding to complaints, referrals and accidents where workplace violence is an issue.

A-283  05/31/2017