How to find what you’re looking for

Our site is organized by categories of workers’ compensation information. The categories are on the left and right of each page.

The Table of Contents is a complete list of categories on our site with links to each category’s items.

The workers’ compensation Subject Index has links to workers’ compensation Web pages from divisions of the Department of Consumer and Business Services.

Use our Search engine to find what you’re looking for. Just type what you’re looking for in the empty box and click on the search button. We have basic and advanced search levels that we hope are helpful to you.

Go to the What’s New page to read a running one-month history of new or updated Web pages on our site.

File formats we use

Hypertext markup language or HTML is what we use to create some of our Web pages. HTML pages can be identified by the .html at the end of the file name, i.e., http://www.cbs.state.or.us./wcd/docs/aboutsite.html

Some documents, like WCD forms, are available as Microsoft Word 97 & 2000 documents. You may want to read the instructions we’ve written on how to use the forms before you download them.

The balance of our pages are portable document format files or PDFs. You can identify PDFs by the .pdf at the end of the file name, i.e., http://www.oregonwcd.org/docs/rules/436_001.pdf

PDFs require a free piece of software called the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download the free Reader from the Adobe site. If you should have any trouble, please call Amy Wadsworth at (503) 947-7637 and she’ll be happy to walk you through the download process.

How to copy and paste text from our site

From HTML files:

Copy
Place your cursor in front of the text you want to copy and then click and drag until all the information you want is highlighted. Now do one of the following:

• Right click with your mouse and select Copy or

• Press Ctrl + C on your keyboard or

• Go to Edit on the menu toolbar and select Copy from the dropdown menu

Your text is now available to paste into other software applications.

Paste
To paste the text you’ve just copied, open the desired application and then do one of the following:

• Right click with your mouse and select Paste or

• Press Ctrl +V on your keyboard or

• Go to Edit on your menu toolbar and select Paste from the dropdown menu or

• Click on the Paste button (Microsoft Applications

From PDF files:

Copy
Click on the Text Select Tool button , then click the first letter of the sentence, phrase, or paragraph you want to copy and drag your cursor to the end of what you want to copy. Now do one of the following:

• Click on the Copy button or
• Right click with your mouse and select Copy

Your text is now available for pasting into other software applications.

Paste
Open the desired application then proceed with one of the following options:

• Right click with your mouse and select Paste or
• Press Ctrl +V on your keyboard or
• Click on the Paste button (Microsoft applications)
  
  
  Note that in PDF files you can only copy one page of text at a time. This means that if the text you want is on page 7 and continues on page 8, you’ll have to copy and paste the text from page 7 into your destination document. Then you’ll need to return to the PDF file, copy the text from page 8, and paste it into your destination document.

Searchable databases

We currently have three searchable databases for employer coverage information through the Employer Data System Search (EDS). You can search for workers’ compensation insurance coverage information by employer name, address, or phone number.

You can also search the EDS database for employers with workers’ compensation insurance coverage ending soon. An employer will appear on this list when WCD is notified that a Guaranty Contract on file with the Department will end soon. Employers on this list may in fact have coverage or may not be required to carry workers’ compensation insurance. These situations may occur, for example, when renewal of coverage is pending with the insurer, or the employer is in the process of obtaining other coverage, is no longer a subject employer, or has filed information not yet registered with WCD.

You may also search the EDS for employers with no current workers’ compensation insurance coverage on record. Employers on this list have had a history of coverage but WCD was notified that a Guaranty Contract on file with the Department has ended. Employers on this list may in fact have coverage or may not be required to carry workers’ compensation insurance. These situations may occur, for example, when the employer is no longer a subject employer, or has obtained other coverage not yet registered with WCD.