50-3-103 - Chapter definitions.
50-3-103. Chapter definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Administrator means the chief administrative officer of the division of occupational safety and health of the department of labor and workforce development. For the purposes of all sections of this chapter other than §§ 50-3-902 and 50-3-903, administrator includes any person appointed, designated or deputized to perform any duties under this chapter or to exercise the powers assigned to the administrator of the division of occupational safety and health under this chapter;
(2) Commission means the occupational safety and health review commission established pursuant to § 50-3-801;
(3) Commissioner or commissioner of labor and workforce development means the chief executive officer of the department of labor and workforce development. For the purposes of all sections of this chapter other than §§ 50-3-902 and 50-3-903, it includes any person appointed, designated or deputized to perform the duties or to exercise the powers assigned to the commissioner of labor and workforce development under this chapter, but does not include the person appointed as administrator;
(4) Committee means the occupational safety and health advisory committee established pursuant to § 50-3-204;
(5) Department means the department of labor and workforce development;
(6) Division or division of occupational safety and health means the division of occupational safety and health of the department;
(7) Employee means any person performing services for another under a contract of hire, including minors, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, persons in executive positions, and shall include county, metropolitan and municipal government employees;
(8) Employer means a person engaged in a business who has one (1) or more employees and includes county, metropolitan and municipal governments;
(9) Federal standard means a standard adopted by a rule promulgated under § 6 of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, codified as 29 U.S.C. § 655;
(10) Issue means a category of like industrial, occupational or hazard groupings that affects the safety and health of employment or place of employment and is suggested by the groupings in the Code of Federal Regulations, title 29, chapter XVII, part 1910;
(11) Person means one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons; and
(12) Standard means an occupational safety and health standard promulgated by the commissioner that requires conditions or the adoption or the use of one (1) or more practices, means, methods, operations or processes reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe and healthful employment and places of employment.
[Acts 1972, ch. 561, § 2; 1974, ch. 585, §§ 1, 2; 1977, ch. 111, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1977, ch. 111, § 44; T.C.A., § 50-503; Acts 1999, ch. 520, § 41.]