§ 652. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 29USC652]
TITLE 29--LABOR
CHAPTER 15--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
Sec. 652. Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter--
(1) The term ``Secretary'' mean \1\ the Secretary of Labor.
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(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.
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(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.
(Pub. L. 91-596, Sec. 3, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1591; Pub. L. 105-241,
Sec. 2(a), Sept. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 1572.)
Amendments
1998--Par. (5). Pub. L. 105-241 inserted ``(not including the United
States Postal Service)'' after ``the United States''.
Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular
Possessions.
Termination of Advisory Committees
Advisory committees in existence on January 5, 1973, to terminate
not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following January 5,
1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or
an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by
appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in
the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is
otherwise provided by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6,
1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.
