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On July 8, 2021, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Oregon OSHA) adopted emergency Heat Illness Prevention rules to establish workplace heat safety requirements that apply when temperatures in a work area reach or exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The rules are effective immediately.
Oregon OSHA is in the middle of rulemaking activity for a permanent heat standard which it initiated under direction from Executive Order 20-04, issued on March 10, 2020. On July 6, 2021, Governor Kate Brown directed Oregon OSHA to issue these emergency rules immediately after the state experienced record-setting heat in June 2021. The permanent rulemaking is ongoing, but these emergency rules will stay in effect until the permanent rule is complete.