Beginning tomorrow and leading into early May, we observe our highest profile workplace safety events. Although work has been impacted by the pandemic, one thing that still holds true is that May...
Background The Oregon Construction and Trades Industry was considered as “essential work” when Oregon Governor Brown issued the Executive Order 20-12 Stay Home, Save Lives on March 23, 2020, one...
Hello Oregon! From a pandemic, to wildland fires and smoke, to ice and power outages: it has been a tough twelve months. We hope this weekend brings power to those still adversely affected by...
Hot off the press from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is guidance for workplaces about vaccines, including tips on messaging and facts, particularly targeted to essential worker...
For more than a dozen years our Institute has joined other organizations to sponsor the Oregon Young Employee Safety (O[yes]) video contest. New for 2021 is the contest's expansion and renaming as a...
OR-FACE Fatality Investigator, Barbara Hanley, MPH, and OR-FACE contractor Steve Eversmeyer have published five new Fatality Investigation Reports in 2020. The purpose of these reports is to...
The Institute's Safety Climate team will be giving a presentation at the December chapter meeting for the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Columbia-Willamette Chapter on Thursday,...
Safety climate is a snapshot of an organization’s perceived “state of safety,” at a point in time. Across many industries, a positive safety climate is associated with fewer accidents, higher...
During this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased prevalence of forest fires, and social and political unrest, now more than ever, the prioritization of occupational safety, health and well-being...
It’s National Farm Safety & Health Week 2020, put on by The National Education Center for Agricultural Safety and AgriSafe. They are offering free, educational webinars in a variety of topics...