South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 71 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING AND REGULATION-DIVISION OF LABOR › Article 1 - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS › Subarticle 1 - GENERAL › Section 71-102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires
				  otherwise:
A. "State" means the State
				of South Carolina.
B. "Department"
				means the Department of Labor, State of South Carolina.
C. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner,
				Department of Labor, State of South Carolina.
D. "Employer" means any individual,
				partnership, joint venture, cooperative association or corporation licensed to
				do business in the State, and the State of South Carolina and any political
				subdivision thereof.
E. "Employee"
				means any person employed by an individual, partnership, joint venture,
				cooperative association or corporation licensed to do business in the State, or
				the State of South Carolina and any political subdivision thereof.
F. "Safety Specialist" means any individual
				commissioned by the Department of Labor, the State of South Carolina or any
				political subdivision thereof to enforce safety and health laws, rules and
				regulations.
G. "Person" means any
				individual, partnership, joint venture, corporative association, corporation,
				organization of employees, the State of South Carolina or any political
				subdivision thereof.
H. "Party"
				means any individual, partnership, joint venture, cooperative association,
				corporation, the State of South Carolina or any political subdivision thereof
				who shall have a vested interest to participate in a hearing conducted in
				accordance with any subarticle of this article.
I. "Affected Employee" means any employee who
				would be affected by the grant or denial of any petition.
J. "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.
K. [Reserved]
L. [Reserved]
M. [Reserved]
N. "Lost Workdays" is the number of days
				(consecutive or not) after, but not including, the day of injury or illness
				during which the employee would have worked but could not do so; that is, could
				not perform all or any part of his normal assignment during all or any part of
				the workday or shift, because of the occupational injury or illness.
O. "Establishment" means a single physical
				location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations
				are performed. For activities where employees do not work at a single physical
				location, such as construction; transportation; communications, electric, gas
				and sanitary service; and similar operations, the establishment is represented
				by main or branch offices, terminals, stations, etc. that either supervise such
				activities or are the base from which personnel carry out these
				activities.
P. "Director of
				Inspection" means that person in the Department of Labor, State of South
				Carolina, who is responsible for inspections made pursuant to the state's
				Occupational Safety and Health Laws, and, that person in other state agencies
				having the responsibility of directing the inspection force of that agency
				which has a contractual agreement with the Department of Labor, State of South
				Carolina, to enforce the state's Occupational Safety and Health Laws.