37.2—Definitions.
Any term defined in the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and not defined below shall have the meaning given it in the act. As used in this subpart:
(b)
ALOSH means the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health, Box 4258, Morgantown, WV 26505. Although the Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, has programmatic responsibility for the chest roentgenographic examination program, the Institute's facility in Morgantown—ALOSH—is used throughout this subpart in referring to the administration of the program.
(c)
Chest roentgenogram means a single posteroanterior roentgenographic projection or radiograph of the chest at full inspiration recorded on roentgenographic film.
(d)
Convenient time and place with respect to the conduct of any examination under this subpart means that the examination must be given at a reasonable hour in the locality in which the miner resides or a location that is equally accessible to the miner. For example, examinations at the mine during, immediately preceding, or immediately following work and a “no appointment” examination at a medical facility in a community easily accessible to the residences of a majority of the miners working at the mine, shall be considered of equivalent convenience for purposes of this paragraph.
(e)
Institute and NIOSH mean the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Center for Disease Control, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
(f)
ILO-U/C Classification means the classification of radiographs of the pneumoconioses devised in 1971 by an international committee of the International Labor Office and described in “Medical Radiography and Photography,” volume 48, No. 3, December 1972. “ILO Classification” means the classification of radiographs of the pneumoconioses revised in 1980 by an international committee of the International Labor Office and described in “Medical Radiography and Photography” volume 57, No. 1, 1981, and in ILO publication 22 (revised 1980) from the ILO Occupational Safety and Health Series.
(g)
Miner means any individual including any coal mine construction worker who is working in or at any underground coal mine, but does not include any surface worker who does not have direct contact with underground coal mining or with coal processing operations.
(h)
Operator means any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, controls, or supervises an underground coal mine or any independent contractor performing services or construction at such mine.
(i)
Panel of ‘B’ Readers means the U.S. Public Health Service Consultant Panel of “B” Readers, c/o ALOSH, P.O. Box 4258, Morgantown, WV 26505.
(j)
Preemployment physical examination means any medical examination which includes a chest roentgenographic examination given in accordance with the specifications of this subpart to a person not previously employed by the same operator or at the same mine for which that person is being considered for employment.
(k)
Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human Services to whom the authority involved may be delegated.
[43 FR 33715, Aug. 1, 1978, as amended at 49 FR 7563, Mar. 1, 1984]