50-70-103. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Air contaminant" means fumes, dust, mist, smoke, other particulate matter, vapor, gas, odorous substances, or any combination thereof.
     (2) "Department" means the department of labor and industry provided for in 2-15-1701.
     (3) "Emission" means a release into the work space atmosphere of air contaminants or pollutants.
     (4) "Occupational disease" means an illness, impairment, or disability that:
     (a) arises from the person's employment;
     (b) is caused by exposure to a substance or industrial practice that is hazardous to health;
     (c) has symptoms of an industrial disease that is known to have resulted from the same type of exposure in other cases;
     (d) is not the result of a person's contact or activities outside the person's employment.
     (5) "Occupational health" is a field of specialization concerned with the problems of health maintenance, productivity, and well-being of industrial workers that are related to and affected by the conditions of work and by the stress of the industrial environment.
     (6) "Person" means an individual, partnership, firm, association, municipality, public or private corporation, subdivision or agency of the state, trust, estate, or any other legal entity.
     (7) "Pollutant" means air contaminants, heat, noise, vibration, ionizing radiation, and nonionizing radiation.
     (8) "Sanitary facilities" means toilets, showers, dressing rooms, lunchrooms, sewage disposal systems, and potable water systems.
     (9) "Threshold limit values" means airborne concentrations of substances that, it is believed, nearly all workers may be repeatedly exposed to day after day without adverse effect.
     (10) "Worker" is a person gainfully employed at any place.
     (11) "Workplace" is a place or location where a person is gainfully employed.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 316, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 35, Ch. 349, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 69-4208; amd. Sec. 142, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 320, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 25, L. 1999.