The employer or their authorized representative must:

1. (1) Provide job safety and health instruction and training to current and new employees, including supervisors, that is adequate for the work task. They must receive training before:

   1. (a) Starting their initial work assignment; or
   2. (b) Being assigned new work tasks, tools, equipment, machines, or vehicles.

2. (2) Evaluate each employee who has previously received job safety and health instruction and training.

   NOTE: An employee does not need to be retrained if their prior instruction and training are adequate.

3. (3) Provide job safety and health instruction and training that includes the:

   1. (a) Safe performance of assigned work tasks.
   2. (b) Procedures, practices and requirements of the employer's work site.
   3. (c) Recognition of safety and health hazards associated with each employee's specific work tasks, including measures and work practices to prevent or control those hazards.
   4. (d) Safe use, operation and maintenance of tools, equipment, machines and vehicles each employee uses or operates, including following the manufacturer's operating and maintenance instructions, warnings and precautions.
   5. (e) Requirements of this standard and hazards of the industry.

4. (4) Require each employee receiving job safety and health instruction and training to:

   1. (a) Work under the close supervision of a qualified person.
   2. (b) Demonstrate to the employer or his authorized representative the ability to safely perform the work assignment before they are permitted to work independently.
5. (5) Assure that a qualified person(s) presents the job safety and health instruction and training.

6. (6) Assure that job safety and health instruction and training is:

   1. (a) Presented in a language and manner that the employee(s) is able to understand.
   2. (b) Appropriate in content for the skill level of the employee(s) being trained.

7. (7) Keep a current written record of job safety and health instruction and training for each employee that contains the following:

   1. (a) Who was instructed or trained.
   2. (b) The date(s) of the instruction or training.
   3. (c) A description of the training.
   4. (d) The name of the trainer.

Statutory/Other Authority

ORS 654.025(2) & 656.726(4)

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 654.001 - 654.295

History

OSHA 5-2003, f. 6-2-03, cert. ef. 12-1-03