Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-307 - Safety standards for agriculture › FIELD OPERATIONS AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS › Part L - Temporary Worker Housing (TWH) › Section 296-307-16103 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply throughout this chapter
					 unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1)
Agricultural employee.
Any
				  person who renders personal services to, or under the direction of, an
				  agricultural employer in connection with the employer's agricultural
				  activity.
(2)
Agricultural
				  employer.
Any person engaged in agricultural activity, including the
				  growing, producing, or harvesting of farm or nursery products, or engaged in
				  the forestation or reforestation of lands, which includes, but is not limited
				  to, the planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning, and thinning
				  of trees and seedlings, the clearing, piling, and disposal of brush and slash,
				  the harvest of Christmas trees, and other related activities.
(3)
Bathing facility.
An
				  enclosed area provided by the operator for workers to bathe or shower, and may
				  be located within a family shelter or a common facility.
(4)
Building.
Any structure used
				  or intended by the operator to be used by workers for cooking, eating,
				  sleeping, sanitation, or other facilities.
(5)
Cherry harvest camp.
A place
				  where housing and related facilities are provided to agricultural employees by
				  agricultural employers or TWH operators for their use while employed for the
				  harvest of cherries in the state of Washington. Cherry harvest camps are the
				  only TWH site allowing tents.
(6)
Common.
A shared facility provided by the operator for all workers
				  of the TWH.
(7)
Common
				  areas.
Housing areas shared or used by one or more families or unrelated
				  individuals.
(8)
Communicable
				  disease.
An illness caused by an infectious agent that can be
				  transmitted from a person, animal, or object to a person by direct or indirect
				  means including, but not limited to, transmission via an intermediate host or
				  vector, food, water, or air.
(9)
Community-based outreach worker.
A legal aid representative, a
				  union representative, or a representative from other community-based advocacy
				  organizations.
(10)
Community
				  health worker.
A frontline public health worker who is a trusted member
				  of or has a close understanding of the community served.
(11)
Current certificate (first
				  aid).
A first-aid training certificate that has not expired.
(12)
Dining hall.
A
				  cafeteria-type eating place with food furnished by and prepared under the
				  direction of the operator for consumption, with or without charge, by
				  workers.
(13)
Drinking
				  fountain.
A fixture equal to a nationally recognized standard or a
				  designed-to-drain faucet, which provides potable drinking water under pressure.
				  A "drinking fountain" does not mean a bubble-type water dispenser.
(14)
Dwelling unit.
A shelter,
				  tent, building, or portion of a building, which may include cooking and eating
				  facilities, that are:
(a) Provided and
				  designated by the operator as either a sleeping area, living area, or both, for
				  occupants; and
(b) Physically
				  separated from other sleeping and common areas. As used in this subsection,
				  "physically separated" means a physical wall separating rooms.