(1)
Miscellaneous.
(a) Conspicuously post warning
signs, danger signs, warning flags, warning lights, or similar devices where
hazards not otherwise adequately guarded warrant their use.
(b) Keep all safeguards or devices operating
properly and fully effective at providing the protection originally
intended.
(c) Erect protective
barriers or suitable guards when covers over openings are removed or
excavations made in places accessible to workers or vehicles.
(d) Do not allow the use of intoxicating
liquor or drugs on the job. Do not allow anyone to work with impaired ability
to work safely.
(e) Do not allow
horseplay, scuffling, practical jokes or any other similar activity.
(2) Supervision and competency.
(a) Require employees to demonstrate their
ability to work safely.
(b) Provide
enough supervision over employees to ensure and enforce compliance with safe
operating procedures and practices.
NOTE: It is not the meaning of this rule to
require a supervisor on every part of any operation, nor to prohibit workers
from working alone.
(c)
Take all reasonable means to require employees:
(A) To work and act in a safe and healthful
manner;
(B) To work in compliance
with all applicable safety and health rules;
(C) To use all means and methods, including
but not limited to, ladders, scaffolds, guardrails, machine guards, safety
belts and lifelines, necessary to work safely where employees are exposed to a
hazard;
(D) Not to remove,
displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device, guard, notice or
warning provided for use in any employment or place of employment where safety
and health rules require such use.
(d) Use a procedure, appropriate for the
work, to check on the well-being of workers whose duties require them to work
alone or in isolation. Instruct all workers about the procedure.
NOTE: A two-way system of signals, thoroughly
understood by both parties or other form of two-way communication is
acceptable. Motor noise is not acceptable as contact or as an indication of
well-being.
(e) Employers
must provide all health hazard control measures necessary to protect the
employees' health from harmful or hazardous conditions and must maintain those
control measures in good working order and assure their use.
(f) Employers must inform their employees
about the known health hazards to which they are exposed, the measures taken
for the prevention and control of those hazards, and the proper methods for
using the control measures.
(3) Inspections. A competent person or
persons must inspect every place of employment at least quarterly. OAR
437-004-0251 has other
requirements related to these inspections.
(4) Investigations.
(a) The employer must investigate every
work-related lost time injury. The object of the investigation is to determine
how to prevent recurrence. OAR
437-004-0251 has other
requirements related to these investigations.
NOTE: As mentioned above, "lost time injury" is
the same as the ORS 656.005(7)(c)
definition of "disabling compensable injury." That is: an injury that entitles
the worker to compensation for disability or death. To fall into this category
the employee must miss three consecutive calendar days beginning with the day
the worker first loses time or wages from work as a result of the compensable
injury. This includes weekends and holidays when they might normally be
off.
(b) At the request of
authorized OR-OSHA representatives, you or your superintendents, supervisors
and employees must furnish all evidence and names of known witnesses to an
accident.
(c) Employees in charge
of work are agents of the employer in the discharge of their authorized duties,
and are always responsible for:
(A) The safe
performance of the work under their supervision; and
(B) The safe conduct of the crew under their
supervision; and
(C) The safety of
all workers under their supervision.
(5) Extraordinary hazards. When conditions
arise that cause unusual or extraordinary hazards to workers, take additional
means and precautions to protect workers or to control the hazardous exposure.
If you cannot make the operation reasonably safe, stop work while the abnormal
conditions exist or until the work is safe.
(6) Signals and signal systems.
(a) Give control signals by only one person
at a time.
(A) When given, make signals clear
and distinct.
(B) The person
receiving the signals must understand their meaning before taking
action.
(b) Act
immediately on emergency stop signals from whatever source.
(c) Do not throw any type of material that
can produce injury, such as rocks, wooden or metal objects, etc., as a
signal.
(d) Do not give signals for
the movement of materials or equipment until all persons who might be in danger
by the movement are in the clear.
Employment of Minors.
NOTE: Information on current regulations about the
employment of minors is available from the local office of the Oregon Bureau of
Labor and Industries, or by writing to: Wage and Hour Division, Oregon Bureau
of Labor, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 1045, Portland, OR 97232. Phone:
971-673-0761. Fax: 971-673-0769.
Notes
Or. Admin. Code
§
437-004-0099
OSHA 4-1998, f. 8-28-98,
cert. ef. 10-1-98; OSHA 9-2006, f. & cert. ef. 9-22-06; OSHA 4-2010, f.
7-8-10, cert. ef. 1-1-11
Stat. Auth.: ORS
654.025(2)
& 656.726(4)
Stats. Implemented: ORS
654.001 -
654.295
