[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1910.2]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                                OF LABOR

 
PART 1910_OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS--Table of Contents

 
                            Subpart A_General

 
Sec. 1910.2  Definitions.


    As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

    (a) Act means the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health 

Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1590).

    (b) Assistant Secretary of Labor means the Assistant Secretary of 

Labor for Occupational Safety and Health;

    (c) Employer means a person engaged in a business affecting commerce 

who has employees, but does not include the United States or any State 

or political subdivision of a State;

    (d) Employee means an employee of an employer who is employed in a 

business of his employer which affects commerce;

    (e) 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;

    (f) 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;

    (g) National consensus standard means any standard or modification 

thereof which (1) has been adopted and promulgated by a nationally 

recognized standards-producing organization under procedures whereby it 

can be determined by the Secretary of Labor or by the Assistant 

Secretary of Labor 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 or the Assistant Secretary,



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after consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies; and

    (h) Established Federal standard means any operative standard 

established by any agency of the United States and in effect on April 

28, 1971, or contained in any Act of Congress in force on the date of 

enactment of the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act.