New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals › Subchapter A - The Industrial Code › Part 12 - Control Of Air Contaminants › Subpart 12-1 - General Requirements › Section 12-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used herein and in connection with this Part (rule)
						the following terms mean:
(a) Air
					 contaminants. Airborne substances, such as dust, fibers, fumes, gases, mists,
					 vapors and other impurities.
(b)
					 Air mover. Any device which produces forced air flow, such as a fan, ejector or
					 natural draft stack.
(c) Approved.
					 In respect to a device or material: in compliance with a subsisting resolution
					 of approval adopted by the board; in respect to action by the board: made the
					 subject of a resolution of approval.
(d) Board. The Board of Standards and Appeals
					 of the State of New York.
(e)
					 Commissioner. The Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York.
(f) Confined space. A tank, vault or similar
					 enclosed structure or space with restricted means of egress, such as a manhole
					 or trap door, which is so enclosed and of such volume that natural ventilation
					 through openings provided will not prevent the accumulation of dangerous air
					 contaminants nor supply sufficient oxygen to protect the life, health and
					 safety of any person occupying such structure or space.
(g) Control equipment. Equipment used to
					 prevent air contamination or reduce or remove air contaminants.
(h) Dangerous air contaminants. Air
					 contaminants in concentrations tending to injure the health of persons. Air
					 contaminants in quantities greater than 25 percent of the lower explosive level
					 of any substance, mixture or compound which they may form.
(i) Dilution ventilation. A ventilation
					 system other than local ventilation which reduces air contamination to safe
					 levels by the introduction of uncontaminated air.
(j) Dipping. The application of industrial
					 products coating material by means of total or partial immersion.
(k) Employee. A person employed; one who
					 works for wages or salary in the service of another.
(l) Exhaust system. A ventilating system
					 operating under negative pressure for the control of air
					 contaminants.
(m) Farm. A tract or
					 parcel of land and the buildings and structures thereon used for husbandry and
					 the production and storage of agricultural and horticultural commodities
					 including but not limited to the following: livestock; dairy; poultry;
					 fur-bearing animals; fruit and truck farms; orchards; plantations; apiaries;
					 and nurseries.
(n) Fibers.
					 Particles produced by handling, cutting, stripping, spinning or weaving of
					 cotton, wool, fur, asbestos or other material constituted of thread-like or
					 slender elements.
(o) Flammable
					 solid. Any solid which will ignite and continue to burn when brought in contact
					 with an open flame, glowing combustion or other source of ignition.
(p) Flammable liquid. Any liquid having a
					 flash point of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or less as determined by the Tagliabue
					 closed-cup test.
(q) Flammable gas
					 or vapor. A gas or vapor, or mixture of gases or vapors, whose concentration is
					 in excess of 25 percent of the lower explosive level.
(r) Impregnating. The application of liquid
					 material by permeation or saturation.
(s) Industrial products coating. The
					 application of paint and similar finishing material by dipping, impregnating,
					 spraying or spreading, including operations incidental to such work and
					 subsequent drying operations, where the finishing material contains flammable
					 or toxic solvents or materials.
(t)
					 Local exhaust ventilation. A system for ventilation for collecting and removing
					 air contaminants at the source of generation.
(u) Mechanical ventilation. A system of
					 ventilation having a power-driven air mover.
(v) Open surface tank operation. An operation
					 which involves the use of a tank containing liquid with the liquid surface
					 directly exposed to the work atmosphere. Such operations may include but are
					 not limited to washing, electroplating, anodizing, pickling, quenching, dyeing,
					 dipping, tanning, dressing, bleaching, degreasing, alkaline cleaning,
					 stripping, rinsing, digesting and other similar operations.
(w) Personal respiratory protective
					 equipment. A respirator or other device worn for the purpose of preventing the
					 wearer from inhaling harmful amounts of air contaminants.
(x) Practicable. Capable of being done
					 without disturbing essential functions or essential structural
					 elements.
(y) Recirculation. The
					 return of part or all of the exhaust air to any space occupied by
					 employees.
(z) Shall. The word
					 "shall" is always mandatory.
(aa)
					 Spraying. The application of any liquid material in the form of a
					 mist.
(bb) Spreading. The
					 application of any liquid material to a surface by brush, roller, flow or
					 similar method.
(cc) Sufficient
					 oxygen. A minimum of 20 percent oxygen by volume at Standard Temperature and
					 Pressure conditions (S.T.P.), 70 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 psia.
(dd) Tumbling process. Any process in which
					 articles, pieces or parts are placed in a rotating barrel, drum, mill or cage
					 for the purpose of removal of rust, scale, debris or dust as well as for the
					 purpose of smoothing, polishing, burnishing or cleaning by means of
					 agitation.
(ee) Work atmosphere.
					 The atmosphere to which an employee is exposed in the course of performing his
					 work.
(ff) Working area or space.
					 The area or space normally occupied or traversed by an employee while at
					 work.