32 The Mainline OPL & Professional Qualification To find more great forestry short-programs, held statewide by OR State University Forestry Extension, go to the OSU-Extension website: • http://extensionweb.forestry.oregonstate.edu/; Click on “Events Calendar” at bottom of webpage; then click “See All Events.” • Forestry Extension – Tree School Online Library features 52 past recorded webinars, featuring favorite Tree School topics. https://extension.oregonstate.edu/tree-school/regional-tree-schools OTHER POPULAR TRAINING PROVIDERS Community Colleges in Oregon www.educationatlas.com/oregon-community-colleges.html OR Small Business Development Centers (20 centers) www.oregonSBDC.org OR Construction Contractors Board www.oregon.gov/CCB/ OR Bureau of Labor & Industries https://www.oregon.gov/BOLI/pages/index.aspx OR-OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Admin) https://osha.oregon.gov/edu/Pages/index.aspx OR-OSHA Online Courses https://osha.oregon.gov/edu/courses/Pages/default.aspx OR Employment Department—OR WorkSource www.worksourceoregon.org www.qualityinfo.org SAIF Corp., safety & workers’ comp training programs https://www.saif.com/trainings.html Western Forestry & Conservation Assoc. www.westernforestry.org OPL UPDATES—Latest news about OPL requirements and NEW individual qualification OPL COMPANY AND INDIVIDUAL STANDARD Any company seeking OPL-qualification—but has not yet finished all new OPL Rules—should proceed to complete all individual and company requirements What if your OPL Rule requirements are incomplete in 2025? Beginning in 2025, all the new individual person and company OPL Rule requirements must be met. If the new OPL Rule requirements are not now completed—then the individual and company are not OPL-qualified, and their OPL Directory listing has been removed. › In this situation, the company and individual QP should proceed to complete all the OPL Rule requirements (shown below). 2023 OPL Rule Change. In January 2023, the OPL Standard Rule changed to require at least one individual person qualification, employed by the company. At that time, AOL granted a temporary two-year ‘Bridge’ (2023–2024) to every current OPL company and one or more employed individual QP person(s). The ‘Bridge’ expired December 31, 2024, and NOW in 2025 an individual OPL-qualified person must be employed to maintain the logging contract company’s OPL. OPL RULES —OPL-qualification has these individual and company requirements: A.–C. —OPL Rules were revised, effective in 2023 A. Company OPL Standard—OPL-Qualified Company OPL Rules are these: › AOL member. Must be enrolled as an AOL member company in good standing. › QP. At least one individual person that is a Qualified Professional (QP) is employed by the company. › In-forest crew oversight by QP or OS. Field crew operations of the company must be overseen by either an individual Qualified Professional (QP), or an individual Onsite Supervisor (OS) employed by the company—“oversight” as determined by the company. OS is an optional qualification. One or more OS individual provides the company with greater crew supervision options in-forest. › CE. QP and OS individuals must complete required continuing education (CE) credits during each two-year period. CE credits are reported for one CE credit per one-hour of contact education that is applicable to the individual’s job and/or the company’s business. Continued →
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