654.003
Purpose. The
purpose of the Oregon Safe Employment Act is to ensure as far as possible safe
and healthful working conditions for every working person in Oregon, to
preserve our human resources and to reduce the substantial burden, in terms of
lost production, wage loss, medical expenses, disability compensation payments
and human suffering, that is created by occupational injury and disease. To
accomplish this purpose the Legislative Assembly intends to provide a procedure
that will:
(1) Encourage
employers and employees to reduce the number of occupational safety and health
hazards and to institute new programs and improve existing programs for
providing safe and healthful working conditions.
(2) Establish a
coordinated program of worker and employer education, health and safety
consultative services, demonstration projects and research to assist workers
and their employers in preventing occupational injury and disease, whatever the
cause.
(3) Authorize the
Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the designees
of the director to set reasonable, mandatory, occupational safety and health
standards for all employments and places of employment.
(4) Provide an
effective program, under the director, to enforce all laws, regulations, rules
and standards adopted for the protection of the life, safety and health of
employees, and in so doing, predominantly prioritize inspections of places of
employment to first focus enforcement activities upon places of employment that
the director reasonably believes to be the most unsafe.
(5) Establish
appropriate reporting and research procedures that will help achieve the
objectives of the Oregon Safe Employment Act, identify occupational hazards and
unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, and describe the nature of the
occupational safety and health problem.
(6) Assure that
Oregon assumes fullest responsibility, in accord with the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.), for the development,
administration and enforcement of safety and health laws and standards. [1973
c.833 §3; 1987 c.884 §55; 1999 c.1017 §1; 2017 c.238 §1]
Notes of Decisions
Shockey v. City of Portland, 837 P.2d 505 (Or. 1992).
· cites it 4× “" ORS 654.003. To accomplish that purpose, the Legislative Assembly provides a procedure that "[e]ncourage[s] employers and employees to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards and to institute new programs and improve existing programs for providing safe and…”
Shahtout v. Emco Garbage Co., 695 P.2d 897 (Or. 1985).
· cites it 2× “ORS 654.003, 654.025. The rule provides: “(1) All vehicles shall be equipped with an audible warning device which can be clearly heard above the surrounding noise in the vicinity of the vehicle.”
OR-OSHA v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 494 P.3d 959 (Or. Ct. App. 2021).
· cites it 2× “” ORS 654.003. Another purpose is to assume “fullest responsibility,” in accord with the federal Act, for developing, administering, and enforcing workplace safety and health laws and standards in Oregon.”
Anderson v. Evergreen Int'l Airlines, Inc., 886 P.2d 1068 (Or. Ct. App. 1994).
· cites it 2× “9 ORS 654.003 expresses the legislature’s policy in enacting the OSEA: “The purpose of the Oregon Safe Employment Act is to assure as far as possible safe and healthful working conditions for every working man and woman in Oregon, to preserve our human resources * * (Emphasis…”
Ossanna v. Nike, Inc., 415 P.3d 55 (Or. Ct. App. 2018).
“See ORS 654.003. In relevant part, ORS 654.062(6) gives employees a private right of action against employers who are alleged to have violated ORS 654.”
Miller v. Georgia-Pac. Corp., 662 P.2d 718 (Or. 1983).
“) ORS 654.003. 4 It aims to achieve occupational health and safety in “* * * every place, whether fixed or movable or moving, whether indoors or out or underground, and the premises and structures appurtenant thereto, where either temporarily or permanently an employe works * *…”
Cain v. Bovis Lend Lease, Inc., 817 F. Supp. 2d 1251 (D. Or. 2011).
“An “Employee” includes, in pertinent part, “[a]ny individual ... who engages to furnish services for a remuneration, financial or otherwise, subject to the direction and control of an employer,” and “[a]ny individual who is provided with workers’ compensation coverage as a…”
Butler v. State Dep't of Corr., 909 P.2d 163 (Or. Ct. App. 1995).
“ORS 654.003 states that the Act is intended to “assure as far as possible safe and healthful working conditions for every working man and woman in Oregon.”
Moe v. Beck, 785 P.2d 781 (Or. Ct. App. 1990).
· cites it 2× “” ORS 654.003. (Emphasis supplied.) Perhaps the dissent, or even the majority, would make a different policy choice if that were our responsibility, but requiring an owner of a workplace to comply with the SEA, even an owner who has chosen not to exercise actual control, cannot…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 654.003(1) — 1 case
Shockey v. City of Portland, 837 P.2d 505 (Or. 1992).
“" ORS 654.003. To accomplish that purpose, the Legislative Assembly provides a procedure that "[e]ncourage[s] employers and employees to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards and to institute new programs and improve existing programs for providing safe and…”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 654.003(6) — 2 cases
OR-OSHA v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 494 P.3d 959 (Or. Ct. App. 2021).
“” ORS 654.003. Another purpose is to assume “fullest responsibility,” in accord with the federal Act, for developing, administering, and enforcing workplace safety and health laws and standards in Oregon.”
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