Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › FACILITY STANDARDS AND LICENSING › Chapter 246-358 - Temporary worker housing › Section 246-358-010 - 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" means 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" means 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" means an enclosed area
				provided by the operator for occupants to bathe or shower, and may be located
				within a family shelter or a common facility.
(4) "Building" means any structure used or
				intended by the operator to be used by occupants for cooking, eating, sleeping,
				sanitation, or other facilities.
(5) "Cherry harvest camp" means 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.
(6) "Common" means a shared facility provided
				by the operator for all occupants of the TWH.
(7) "Communicable disease" means 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.
(8) "Community-based outreach worker" means a
				legal aid representative, a union representative, or a representative from
				other community-based advocacy organizations.
(9) "Community health worker" means a
				frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of or has a close
				understanding of the community served.
(10) "Dining hall" means a cafeteria-type
				eating place with food furnished by and prepared under the direction of the
				operator for consumption, with or without charge, by occupants.
(11) "Drinking fountain" means a fixture
				equal to a nationally recognized standard or a designed-to-drain faucet which
				provides potable drinking water under pressure. "Drinking fountain" does not
				mean a bubble-type water dispenser.
(12) "Dwelling unit" means a shelter, tent,
				building, or portion of a building, which may include cooking and eating
				facilities, that is:
(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.