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(Narrator) Well, so our work at Oregon OSHA  

makes a difference in a very fundamental sense

throughout the agency using a variety of different tools. The people who work with

us and for us reach out to  employers and reach out to workers

and help to make sure that hazards  are eliminated in the work place

and we're talking about the sorts of hazards

that cause serious injury,

serious illness,

and even death and so it absolutely makes  a difference. We may not know whose lives we save,

but any of us who have worked  in this field for very long are

are sure that somewhere along the way

we've prevented a serious injury, we've  stopped someone from getting very sick,

and we've saved lives.

(Oregon OSHA Deputy Administrator Julie Love) The majority of our positions  

in Oregon OSHA are in

what we would call the field. They're either enforcement officers or in both

health and safety or consultants in both health and safety.

Each of these professionals

enter workplaces and either enforce our rules

or help employers comply with them.

Either through education

or through enforcement activity.

(Narrator) We also  

have industrial hygienists,  or health specialists, who

focus on chemical hazards, on hearing issues,

and on biological hazards.

It's a little bit of an oversimplification  to say the safety folks focus on preventing

injuries and the industrial hygienists 

focus on preventing illness and disease,  but that's a good general distinction.

In addition to that in the organization,  

we have folks who specialize in  video, we have people who work

on the web, and a number of  different tasks getting our

our outreach message out.

One of the important things that we do is  try to educate people so that employers know

what's expected of them and so that the workers know what's expected of them and

of their employers when it comes to providing a safe workplace.

(Julie Love) The skills that are most helpful in working working at Oregon OSHA

range pretty vastly.

Obviously our

documenting,

interviewing,

interpersonal skills of all sorts,

and even the ability to being in really really

difficult situations and managing that experience. Both for your own personal

health and how you're interacting with the people involved in that situation.

The other thing I really enjoy about the job - and this is true of most

of the jobs in the organization - is I get to see a lot of variety.

The job isn't one where everything is the same day in and day out. We confront

different issues, we confront different hazards, we confront different situations

and I enjoy that. It's nice to have new challenges and every once in a while

it's nice to be surprised by what comes up at the office.

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