[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
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
 
                            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

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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, 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.