New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 11 - LABOR AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION › Chapter 5 - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY › Part 2 - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY - GENERAL INDUSTRY › Section 11.5.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. The provisions
				of 11.5.1.7 NMAC are applicable to this part.
B.
Additional definitions:
The
				following definitions, in addition to these contained in 11.5.1.7 NMAC and the
				state act, are applicable to this section:
(1) "ANSI" means American national standards
				institute;
(2) "approved" means
				tested and listed as satisfactory by the bureau of mines of the United States
				department of interior, or jointly by the MSHA and NIOSH;
(3) "confined space" means an enclosure,
				usually having limited means of access or egress, or both, and poor natural
				ventilation, which may contain hazardous contaminants or be oxygen deficient,
				including but not limited to a storage tank, process tank, tank car, boiler,
				duct, sewer, tunnel, pipeline, pit or tube;
(4) "contaminant" means a harmful, irritating
				or nuisance material that is foreign to the normal atmosphere;
(5) "controlled breathing" means the ability
				of the wearer of an SCBA to maintain a breathing rate that is near normal for
				the activities being performed;
(6)
				"corrective lens" means a lens ground to the wearer's individual corrective
				prescription;
(7) "dB" means
				decibel(s), a unit for measuring the relative loudness of sounds equal
				approximately to the smallest degree of difference of loudness ordinarily
				detectable by the human ear;
(8)
				"education" means the process of imparting knowledge or skill through
				systematic instruction, whether or not through formal classroom
				instruction;
(9) "exhalation valve"
				means a device that allows exhaled air to leave a facepiece and prevents
				outside air from entering through the valve;
(10) "eyepiece" means a gas-tight,
				transparent window or lens in a full facepiece through which the wearer can
				see;
(11) "face shield" means a
				heat and flame resistant device worn in front of the eyes and face, the
				predominant function of which is protection of the wearer's eyes and
				face;
(12) "firefighter" means an
				individual who is assigned to firefighting activity, and is required to respond
				to alarms and performs emergency action at the location of a fire or fire
				danger;
(13) "firefighting
				activity" means physical action taken in the direct act of fire suppression,
				and rescue or hazardous duties performed at the location of a fire emergency
				and supportive activities related to firefighting;
(14) "fire department" means a paid or
				volunteer service group organized and trained for the prevention and control of
				loss of life and property from any fire or disaster;
(15) "full facepiece" means the portion of an
				SCBA covering the wearer's nose, mouth, and eyes and designed to make a
				gas-tight fit with the face, including the head harness, exhalation valves, and
				connections for a source of respirable gas;
(16) "gas" means an aeriform fluid that is in
				the gaseous state at standard temperature and pressure;
(17) "hazardous atmosphere" means any
				atmosphere, whether or not immediately dangerous to life or health, that is
				oxygen deficient or that contains a toxic or disease-producing
				contaminant;
(18) "hazardous
				substance" means a substance which by reason of being explosive, flammable,
				poisonous, corrosive, oxidizing, irritant or otherwise harmful, is likely to
				cause injury;
(19) "Hg" means the
				element mercury;
(20) "head
				harness" means a device for holding the facepiece securely in place on the
				wearer's head;
(21) "health
				professional" means a licensed physician, registered nurse, practical nurse, or
				certified emergency medical technician;
(22) "helmet" means a head protective device
				consisting of a shell, energy absorption system, and chin strap intended to be
				worn to provide protection for the head or portions thereof, against impact,
				flying or falling objects, electric shock, penetrations, heat and
				flame;
(23) "Hz" means hertz, a
				unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second;
(24) "immediately dangerous to life or
				health" means posing an immediate hazard to life or producing immediate
				irreversible effects on health that may be debilitating;
(25) "inhalation valve" means a device that
				allows respirable air or oxygen to enter the facepiece and prevents exhaled air
				or oxygen from leaving the facepiece through the intake opening;
(26) "MSHA" means the mine safety and health
				administration of the United States department of labor;
(27) "negative-pressure type apparatus" means
				an open or closed-circuit apparatus in which the pressure inside the facepiece,
				in relation to the immediate environment, is positive during exhalation and
				negative during inhalation;
(28)
				"NIOSH" means the national institute for occupational safety and health of the
				United States department of health and human services;
(29) "NFPA" means national fire protection
				association;
(30) "overhaul" means:
(a) the final stages of fire control,
				following suppression of the main body of fire, during which smoke conditions
				and visibility gradually improve and pockets of fire are sought out to complete
				extinguishment, searching for victims continues, and salvage operations may be
				carried out; or
(b) in a situation
				other than fire, the cleanup stage following the elimination of the emergency
				phase of the incident;
(31) "oxygen-deficient atmosphere" means an
				atmosphere that causes an oxygen partial pressure of 100 millimeters of mercury
				or less in the freshly inspired air saturated with water vapor in the upper
				portion of the lungs;
(32)
				"positive-pressure apparatus" means an open- or closed-circuit apparatus in
				which the pressure inside the facepiece in relation to the immediate
				environment is positive during both inhalation and exhalation;
(33) "provide" means to furnish, supply or to
				make arrangements for monetary reimbursement;
(34) "qualitative SCBA fitting test" means a
				fitting test in which the person wearing an SCBA is exposed to an irritant
				smoke, an odorous vapor, or another suitable test agent;
(35) "quantitative SCBA fitting test" means a
				fitting test in which a person wears an SCBA in a test atmosphere containing a
				test agent in the form of an aerosol, vapor, or gas, and instrumentation that
				samples the test atmosphere and the air inside the facepiece of the SCBA is
				used to measure quantitatively the penetration of the test agent into the
				facepiece;
(36) "sanitization"
				means the removal of dirt and the inhibiting of the action of agents that cause
				infection or disease;
(37) "SCBA"
				means self-contained breathing apparatus, which is a portable device that
				includes the supply of respirable breathing gas for the firefighter, but does
				not include a rebreather;
(38)
				"smoke" means the products of incomplete combustion or organic substances in
				the form of solid and liquid particles and gaseous products in air;
(39) "speaking diaphragm" means a device
				integral with the facepiece, designed to improve direct voice
				communication;
(40) "structural
				firefighting" means physical activity of fire suppression, rescue or both, of
				buildings or structures that are involved in a fire situation beyond the
				incipient stage; and
(41)
				"training" means the process of making proficient through instruction and
				hands-on practice in the operation of equipment, including respiratory
				protection equipment, that is expected to be used in the performance of
				assigned duties.