Protection from Wildfire Smoke (Oregon OSHA) Online Training

This online course teaches Oregon's wildfire smoke rule (OAR 437-002-1081 with Appendices A and B), which Oregon OSHA enforces, to workers in Oregon. It covers wildfire smoke and your health, when the rule applies, how your employer checks the air, communication and your rights, lowering exposure, respirators you can ask for at 35.5 µg/m³, required respirator use at 200.9 and 500.4 µg/m³, putting on and using a filtering facepiece respirator, and what to do when someone has symptoms.

What you learn

• Wildfire smoke and your health
• When the rule applies
• How your employer checks the air
• Communication and your rights
• How your employer lowers your exposure
• Respirators you can ask for (35.5 µg/m³)
• Required respirator use at 200.9 and 500.4 µg/m³
• Putting on and using a filtering facepiece respirator
• When someone has symptoms
• A final lesson listing what to review with your supervisor at your company

How it works

• You take the course online, at your own pace, on a phone or a computer.
• The final exam opens after you finish the lessons.
• Each topic lesson ends with practice questions that do not count toward your score.
• The final exam has 25 questions drawn at random. You need 80 percent to pass, and you get 3 attempts.
• When you pass, you get a certificate of completion from M Squared Safety Solutions, Inc. The certificate expires 1 year after it is issued.
• This course is also available in Spanish: Protección contra el humo de incendios forestales (Oregon OSHA): capacitación en línea.

Questions

Call an M Squared trainer at 949-954-6581, Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific time. A trainer answers in English and Spanish.

Your employer's part

This online course does not replace the training your employer must give on your own job: site-specific training, and hands-on practice and evaluation where the rule requires them.

What this course does not do

Your employer must still teach you its own written plan, its methods for checking the air and its respirator instruction; this course cannot replace the employer's plan or hands-on respirator practice. This course covers Oregon's wildfire smoke rule only. California, federal OSHA and other states have different rules. The course is online only. Oregon has a separate smoke rule for agriculture (OAR 437-004-9791), which this course does not teach.