This section defines key terms used in the article, including employer, employee, workplace, safety and health terms, violations, and related program and agency terms.
23-401 - Definitions 23-401 . Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means a review board established pursuant to section 23-422. 2. "Commission" means the industrial commission of Arizona. 3. "De minimis violation" means a condition or practice that, although undesirable, has no direct or immediate relationship to safety or health. 4. "Director" means the director of the division. 5. "Division" means the division of occupational safety and health within the commission. 6. "Employee" means any person performing services for an employer, including any person defined as an employee pursuant to section 23-901, except employees engaged in household domestic labor. 7. "Employer" means any individual or type of organization, including this state and all political subdivisions of this state, that has in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it in employment and includes self-employed persons, but does not include employers of household domestic labor. 8. "Interested party" means the commission and the commission's agents, the employer and the affected employees of such employer. 9. "Model system" means an exemplary and voluntary implemented worker safety and health management system that: (a) Exceeds basic compliance with occupational safety and health laws and regulations. (b) Meets the requirements adopted by the division pursuant to section 23-432. 10. "Non-serious violation" means a condition or practice in a place of employment that does not constitute a serious violation but that violates a standard or regulation and has a direct or immediate relationship to safety or health, unless the employer did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of such condition or practice. 11. "Program" means the voluntary protection program or any other program under which the director recognizes and partners with workplaces that have implemented a model system. 12. "Recognized hazard" means an unsafe or unhealthful condition or practice recognized as such with respect to the standard of knowledge in the industry. 13. "Regulation" means any written regulation of occupational safety and health governing places of employment formulated pursuant to section 23-410, exclusive of standards, and shall have the same meaning as and include the term "rule". 14. "Serious violation" means a condition or practice in a place of employment that violates a standard, regulation or section 23-403, subsection A and produces a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result, unless the employer did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of such condition or practice. 15. "Standard" means any occupational safety and health standard that has been adopted and promulgated by a nationally recognized standards-producing organization or the federal government and shall have the same meaning as, and include the term "code". 16. "Trade secret" means a plan or process, tool, mechanism, or compound not patented, known only to its owner and those of the owner's employees to whom it is necessary to confide it, or other information that the employer treats as confidential and has a reasonable basis for doing so. 17. "Workplace" means a location or site wherein work, either temporary or permanent, is being conducted in connection with an industry, trade or business.