3-3101. Definitions


In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:


1. "Assistant director" means the assistant director of the office of agricultural
safety in the Arizona department of agriculture.


2. "De minimis violation" means a condition or practice which, although
undesirable, has no direct or immediate relationship to safety or health.


3. "Employee" means any person performing agricultural services for an employer.


4. "Employer" means any individual or type of organization, including this state
and its political subdivisions, which has in its employ one or more individuals
performing agricultural services for it in employment, including self-employed persons.


5. "Interested party" means the office and its agents, the employer and the
affected employees of the employer.


6. "Nonserious violation" means a condition or practice in a place of employment
which does not constitute a serious violation but which violates a standard or rule 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 the
condition or practice.


7. "Office" means the office of agricultural safety in the Arizona department of
agriculture.


8. "Recognized hazard" means an unsafe or unhealthful condition or practice
recognized as such with respect to the standard of knowledge in the industry.


9. "Rule" means a written rule of agricultural safety and health governing places
of agricultural employment which is adopted pursuant to section 3-3106 or 3-3108,
exclusive of standards.


10. "Serious violation" means a condition or practice in a place of agricultural
employment which violates a standard or rule or section 3-3104, 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.


11. "Standard" means any agricultural safety and health standard which has been
adopted and promulgated by a nationally recognized standards-producing organization or
the federal government and has the same meaning as and includes the term "code".


12. "Trainer" means a person who is certified by the department pursuant to section
3-3125 for training individuals in agricultural health and safety standards.


13. "Workplace" means a location or site where temporary or permanent work is
conducted in connection with agriculture.