[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1903.22]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                                OF LABOR
 
PART 1903_INSPECTIONS, CITATIONS AND PROPOSED PENALTIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1903.22  Definitions.

    (a) Act means the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health 
Act of 1970. (84 Stat. 1590 et seq., 29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.)
    (b) The definitions and interpretations contained in section 3 of 
the Act shall be applicable to such terms when used in this part 1903.
    (c) Working days means Mondays through Fridays but shall not include 
Saturdays, Sundays, or Federal holidays. In computing 15 working days, 
the day of receipt of any notice shall not be included, and the last day 
of the 15 working days shall be included.
    (d) Compliance Safety and Health Officer means a person authorized 
by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of 
Labor, to conduct inspections.
    (e) Area Director means the employee or officer regularly or 
temporarily in charge of an Area Office of the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, or any other person or 
persons who are authorized to act for such employee or officer. The 
latter authorizations may include general delegations of the authority 
of an Area Director under this part to a Compliance Safety and Health 
Officer or delegations to such an officer for more limited purposes, 
such as the exercise of the Area Director's duties under Sec. 
1903.14(a). The term also includes any employee or officer exercising 
supervisory responsibilities over an Area Director. A supervisory 
employee or officer is considered to exercise concurrent authority with 
the Area Director.
    (f) Assistant Regional Director means the employee or officer 
regularly or temporarily in charge of a Region of the Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, or any other 
person or persons who are specifically designated to act for such 
employee or officer in his absence. The term also includes any employee 
or officer in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
exercising supervisory responsibilities over the Assistant Regional 
Director. Such supervisory employee or officer is considered to exercise 
concurrent authority with the Assistant Regional Director. No delegation 
of authority under this paragraph shall adversely affect the procedures 
for independent informal review of investigative determinations 
prescribed under Sec. 1903.12 of this part.
    (g) Inspection means any inspection of an employer's factory, plant, 
establishment, construction site, or other area, workplace or 
environment where work is performed by an employee of an employer, and 
includes any inspection conducted pursuant to a complaint filed under 
Sec. 1903.11 (a) and (c), any reinspection, followup inspection, 
accident investigation or other inspection conducted under section 8(a) 
of the Act.

[36 FR 17850, Sept. 4, 1971, as amended at 38 FR 22624, Aug. 23, 1973. 
Redesignated at 62 FR 15337, Mar. 31, 1997]

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