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I have been reading up on OSHA practices within individual states this week. One of the best OSHA Web sites exists in Oregon. The Web site is packed with helpful information and resources that employers and workers can use to help keep the workplace safe and productive.

The purpose of OSHA is to keep the workplace safe and healthy for workers. One of the things that OSHA is responsible for is making sure that workplaces have adequate safety equipment that has been deemed important for certain types of work. For example, a person who works in a lab should have access to an eye flushing station. A person who works on a construction site should have a hardhat.

OSHA is also responsible for gathering data about on the job accidents and fatalities within a given state according to the industry and the cause of death. The Oregon Web site keeps a comprehensive list of fatalities that have occurred during the workday and on-site for workers for the past six years. This report was published in June, 2005.

These fatalities were not always related to the job. For example, the statistics show that three people died in 2004 from Aneurysms.

One of the things that I found most promising was that there is a significant decrease in the amount of fatalities due to crushing. The OSHA report states that in 2000, 15 people were crushed whereas in 2005, only six people were crushed.

However, the OSHA studies also show that there has been a lot of fluctuation in the number of heart attacks that people suffered while on the job. In 2000, 12 people died of heart attacks. In 2002, 30 people died of heart attacks. In 2005, 23 people died of heart attacks. Heart attacks are also the most common cause for workplace fatalities according to the OSHA study.

Employees can obtain detailed information regarding Oregon’s OSHA laws and all the most up to date state laws along with the fedearl on the Oregon Complete Labor Law poster.

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