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

Information employers need to provide to employees when enclosed structures are within the designated exclusion zone for an outdoor pesticide application.

English  Order printed copy  08/02/2023

Agricultural employer requirements for securing agricultural structures that fall within the Application Exclusion Zone for outdoor crop areas.

English  Order printed copy  11/29/2022

Information to help employers navigate the Application Exclusion Zone with specific Oregon requirements under the Worker Protection Standard.

English  Order printed copy  02/12/2019

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  03/08/2024

Requisitos agrícolas para el empleador para asegurar estructuras o edificios agrícolas que están dentro de la zona de exclusión de la aplicación para áreas de cultivo al aire libre.

Spanish  Order printed copy  12/14/2018

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  04/30/2024

Covers safe practices for employees who work around hazardous chemicals and pesticides. Ayuda a los trabajadores entender como reducir los peligros de los pesticidas.

English / Spanish  Order printed copy  04/13/2023

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  03/08/2024

Información que los empleadores necesitan proporcionar a los empleados, cuando cualquier estructura o edificio agrícola que se puede cerrar cae dentro de la zona de exclusión de la aplicación de pesticidas al aire libre.

Order printed copy  08/03/2023

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

English  Order printed copy  07/24/2024

Información para ayudar a los empleadores a navegar por la zona de exclusión de aplicación con los requisitos específicos de Oregon bajo la norma de protección para el trabajador.

Spanish  Order printed copy  03/14/2019

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

A convenient checklist of the requirements in Subdivision 4J, 437-004-1120, agricultural labor housing and related facilities.

English  03/10/2023

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

Fact sheet that describes where to store agricultural pesticides and chemicals, safe practices for storing chemicals, and how to respond to emergencies.

English  09/26/2023

Proporciona a los empleadores rurales información para ayudarlos a crear un plan médico de emergencia eficaz.

Spanish  10/08/2024

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

English  12/16/2024

Covers training requirements regarding chemicals.

English  10/24/2023

Oregon OSHA adopted a temporary amendment to 437-004-1120, Agricultural Labor Housing and Related Facilities, to ensure that workers who live in employer-provided labor housing can recover after working long hours outdoors. This fact sheet describes the amendment’s key requirements.

English  06/10/2022

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

Fact sheet describing the key requirements of Oregon OSHA’s permanent rules for protection from wildfire smoke, effective July 1, 2022. In May 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modified the calculation for AQI. The requirements based on PM2.5 concentrations in the Oregon OSHA wildfire smoke rules are not changing. For more information, please see the guidance document https://osha.oregon.gov/OSHARules/comments/comments-and-decisions-AO4-2022-wildfire-smoke.pdf

English  Guidance document  06/06/2024

Apartir junio 2022, Oregon OSHA adoptó el subpárrafo 25 de las Normas Administrativas de Oregon (OAR) 437-004-1120, Viviendas del Trabajo Agrícola e Instalaciones Relacionadas, con el fin de garantizar que los que viven en viviendas laborales proporcionadas por los empleadores puedan recuperarse después de trabajar muchas horas al aire libre. En esta ficha técnica se describen los requisitos clave.

Spanish  06/17/2022

Hoja informativa que describe los requisitos clave de las reglas permanentes de la OSHA de Oregón para la protección contra el humo de los incendios forestales, vigentes a partir del 1 de julio de 2022. En mayo de 2024, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE. UU. modificó el cálculo del AQI. Los requisitos basados en las concentraciones de PM2.5 en las normas sobre humo de incendios forestales de la OSHA de Oregón no cambian. Para obtener más información, consulte el documento de orientación https://osha.oregon.gov/OSHARules/comments/comments-and-decisions-AO4-2022-wildfire-smoke.pdf

Spanish  Guidance document  06/10/2024

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

Provides information about tractor hazards, along with safety measures for tractors, including rollover protective structures (ROPS) and power take-off (PTO).

English  12/11/2024

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

What workers should know about avian flu caused by the H5N1 influenza virus. Provides information about the higher risk of infection for those who work closely with birds and livestock, and how to use PPE and other methods for protection.

English  08/30/2024

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

Lo que los trabajadores deben saber sobre la gripe aviar causada por el virus de la influenza H5N1. Proporciona información sobre el mayor riesgo de infección para quienes trabajan en estrecha relación con las aves y el ganado, y sobre cómo utilizar los EPP y otros métodos de protección.

Spanish  10/04/2024

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

Imán grande con un diagrama de qué hacer cuando un trabajador está enfermo o lesionado en un entorno agrícola.

Spanish  12/11/2024

¡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

An 8½ x 11 sheet of our most popular stickers.

English  01/04/2024

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  07/03/2024

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  07/03/2024

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

English / 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

A playbook of ideas, interventions, and ingenuity! The purpose of safety committees and safety meetings is to bring workers and management together in a non-adversarial, cooperative effort to promote safety and health. Safety committees and safety meetings will help you continually improve your safety and health program.

English  09/16/2022

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

This ATV Safety training program covers all areas of ATV use for agricultural work, including the best and safest practices

English  Online course  

This Hazard Communication training program covers the Oregon OSHA Hazard Communication Rule as it has been aligned with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Categorization of Chemicals.

English  Online course  

This online course is designed to satisfy 5 of the 7 training requirements found in Oregon OSHA’s rules to address heat illness prevention

English  Online course  05/27/2022

Tailgate  English Spanish  11/14/2022

Overhead  English Spanish  11/14/2022

Workbook  English Spanish  11/14/2022

Overhead  English Spanish  11/14/2022

Workbook  English Spanish  11/14/2022

Tailgate  English Spanish  11/14/2022

PESO PDF tailgate about hazard communication aligned with GHS

Tailgate  English Spanish  11/14/2022

PESO PDF workbook about hazard communication aligned with GHS

Workbook  English Spanish  11/14/2022

PESO PDF overhead about hazard communication aligned with GHS

Overhead  English Spanish  11/14/2022

Schedule for workshop classes around the state during July through December. Attending an Oregon OSHA class helps you gain important knowledge and skills.

English  12/14/2022

Schedule for our workshop classes from January through June. Attending an Oregon OSHA class helps you gain important knowledge and skills.

English  11/29/2022

Workbook  English  11/12/2020

Instructor Guide  English  11/12/2020

PowerPoint slides for the Worker Protection Standard education workshop.

Overhead  English  02/24/2020

Instructor Guide  English  12/01/2013

Overhead  English  12/20/2013

Workbook  English  12/01/2013

Administrative Order 2-2023  

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Administrative Order 4-2022   Word version  

10/15/2010

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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

A letter of interpretation regarding walking/working surfaces around fish ponds and fish runs (raceways) at fish hatcheries.

11/15/2023

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: Instruction containing policies and procedures for inspecting workplaces that process cannabis. Covers processes in Division 4 Agricultural rules, and Division 2 General Industry rules.

A-307  12/13/2024

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

Text of proposed changes  

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

Language: English   Length: 5 minutes  

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.

Language: English   Length: various  

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

Language: English   Length: 15:06 minutes  

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.

Language: English Spanish   Length: 18:28 minutes  

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

Language: Spanish   Length: 25.32 minutes  

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

Language: Spanish   Length: 5 minutos