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Summary: OR-OSHA Heat Illness Prevention and Wildfire Smoke Rules

Heat and Wildfire Smoke Overview - 2022

• Full Heat Rules
  • Heat illness prevention online course: Designed to satisfy certain training requirements found in the heat rule, the course addresses such topics as common signs and symptoms of heat-related illnesses, risk factors, how the heat index is measured, and access to shade, drinking water, and other measures.
    • Available in English and Spanish
  • Fact sheet about the key requirements of the heat rule: This five-page document highlights the rule’s key overall requirements, offering a reader-friendly summary of what employers and workers need to know about the rule.
    • Available in English
  • Fact sheet about the heat rule’s rest break schedule options for preventing heat illness: This two-page document provides a quick, easy-to-use overview of the part of the heat rule that addresses rest break schedule options A, B, and C.
    • Available in English
       
• Full Smoke Rules
• Additional resources:
  • A worker’s right to a safe and health workplace.
  • Free Oregon OSHA consultations for employers to improve workplace safety and health programs – no fault, no citations, no penalties.
  • Questions about how to apply rules to your workplace? Contact Oregon OSHA specialists.
  • A-to-Z topic index, including pages for heat illness prevention and wildfire smoke.
  • Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (includes Oregon OSHA as a division) Multicultural Communications Program, providing outreach to communities with limited English proficiency. Toll-free number for Spanish-speaking Oregonians: 800-843-8086.
  • Ombuds Office for Oregon Workers for help understanding workplace safety and health rights, and workers’ compensation rights. Contact the office toll-free: 800-927-1271.