Every employer shall furnish employment and a place of employment which are safe and healthful for employees therein, and shall furnish and use such devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use such practices, means, methods, operations and processes as are reasonably necessary to render such employment and place of employment safe and healthful, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety and health of such employees.
ORS 654.010
Known as the Oregon Safe Employment Act
The act spans §§ 654–654 (138 sections).
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 131 Or. App. 726 - Anderson v. Evergreen International Airlines, Inc. (1994)
Most recently applied in OR-OSHA v. Laborworks Ind. / Tradesman Int. (October 2025)
Amended by 1973 c.833 §5
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.