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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 652. Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter -
(1) The term "Secretary" mean (!1) the Secretary of Labor.
(2) The term "Commission" means the Occupational Safety and
Health Review Commission established under this chapter.
(3) The term "commerce" means trade, traffic, commerce,
transportation, or communication among the several States, or
between a State and any place outside thereof, or within the
District of Columbia, or a possession of the United States (other
than the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands), or between
points in the same State but through a point outside thereof.
(4) The term "person" means one or more individuals,
partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal
representatives, or any organized group of persons.
(5) The term "employer" means a person engaged in a business
affecting commerce who has employees, but does not include the
United States (not including the United States Postal Service) or
any State or political subdivision of a State.
(6) The term "employee" means an employee of an employer who is
employed in a business of his employer which affects commerce.
(7) The term "State" includes a State of the United States, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
(8) The term "occupational safety and health standard" means a
standard which requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one
or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes,
reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe or healthful
employment and places of employment.
(9) The term "national consensus standard" means any
occupational safety and health standard or modification thereof
which (1),(!2) has been adopted and promulgated by a nationally
recognized standards-producing organization under procedures
whereby it can be determined by the Secretary that persons
interested and affected by the scope or provisions of the
standard have reached substantial agreement on its adoption, (2)
was formulated in a manner which afforded an opportunity for
diverse views to be considered and (3) has been designated as
such a standard by the Secretary, after consultation with other
appropriate Federal agencies.
(10) The term "established Federal standard" means any
operative occupational safety and health standard established by
any agency of the United States and presently in effect, or
contained in any Act of Congress in force on December 29, 1970.
(11) The term "Committee" means the National Advisory Committee
on Occupational Safety and Health established under this chapter.
(12) The term "Director" means the Director of the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
(13) The term "Institute" means the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health established under this chapter.
(14) The term "Workmen's Compensation Commission" means the
National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws
established under this chapter.
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