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8-7-1003. Definitions.
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8-7-1003. Definitions.
(a) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Chemical manufacturer” means an employer with a workplace where chemicals are produced for use or distribution;
(2) [Repealed.]
(3) “Distributor” means a business, other than a chemical manufacturer or importer, which supplies hazardous chemicals to other distributors or to employers;
(4) “Exposure” or “exposed” means that an employee is subjected to a hazardous chemical in the course of employment through any route of entry (inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, or absorption, etc.), and includes potential, e.g., accidental or possible, exposure;
(5) “Hazard Communication Standard” means the Hazard Communication Standard adopted by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations at 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1200, as of July 1, 1991;
(6) “Hazardous chemical” means any element, chemical compound, or mixture of elements or compounds which is a physical hazard or a health hazard as defined by the Hazard Communication Standard;
(7) “Label” or “labeling” means any written, printed, or graphic material displayed on or affixed to containers of hazardous chemicals;
(8) “Material safety data sheet” means written or printed material concerning a hazardous chemical which is prepared in accordance with the Hazard Communication Standard;
(9)(A) “Public employee” means any employee of a public employer who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals in the workplace under normal operating conditions or foreseeable emergencies.
(B) Office workers and nonresident management are not generally included unless their job performance routinely involves potential exposure to hazardous chemicals;
(10) “Public employer” means the State of Arkansas and each politi
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-7-1003
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8-7-1003. Definitions.
(a) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Chemical manufacturer” means an employer with a workplace where chemicals are produced for use or distribution;
(2) [Repealed.]
(3) “Distributor” means a business, other than a chemical manufacturer or importer, which supplies hazardous chemicals to other distributors or to employers;
(4) “Exposure” or “exposed” means that an employee is subjected to a hazardous chemical in the course of employment through any route of entry (inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, or absorption, etc.), and includes potential, e.g., accidental or possible, exposure;
(5) “Hazard Communication Standard” means the Hazard Communication Standard adopted by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations at 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1200, as of July 1, 1991;
(6) “Hazardous chemical” means any element, chemical compound, or mixture of elements or compounds which is a physical hazard or a health hazard as defined by the Hazard Communication Standard;
(7) “Label” or “labeling” means any written, printed, or graphic material displayed on or affixed to containers of hazardous chemicals;
(8) “Material safety data sheet” means written or printed material concerning a hazardous chemical which is prepared in accordance with the Hazard Communication Standard;
(9)(A) “Public employee” means any employee of a public employer who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals in the workplace under normal operating conditions or foreseeable emergencies.
(B) Office workers and nonresident management are not generally included unless their job performance routinely involves potential exposure to hazardous chemicals;
(10) “Public employer” means the State of Arkansas and each political subdivision thereof, as defined in § 21-5-603(b);
(11) “Trade secret” is defined in accordance with § 4-75-601(4);
(12) “Work area” means a room or defined space in a workplace where hazardous chemicals are produced or used and where public employees are present;
(13) “Workplace” means an establishment, job site, or project at one (1) geographical location containing one (1) or more work areas under a public employer's control or direction; and
(14) “Workplace chemical list” means a list of hazardous chemicals in a workplace developed pursuant to § 8-7-1007.
(b) All other definitions of the Hazard Communication Standard as they exist on the date of enactment of this subchapter are hereby adopted and incorporated by reference.
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21-5-603. Definitions.
(a) The term “public employee”, as used in this subchapter, includes:
(1) State employees and officers of any state agency, board, commission, department, institution, college, university, or community college receiving an appropriation for regular salaries, extra help, or authorized overtime payable from funds deposited into the State Treasury or depositories other than the State Treasury by the General Assembly, provided that inmates of state correctional facilities who perform work for the state while incarcerated or while on a work-release program shall not be considered state employees;
(2) Public school employees and officers of the various school districts of this state;
(3)(A) Municipal employees and officers of the municipalities of this state, and the employees of any board, commission, department, or institution owned, operated, managed, and administered by the municipalities.
(B) However, employees of municipally owned hospitals and nursing homes operated, managed, or administered by private management companies or enterprises, whether under a contract for management, or under a lease agreement, or under any other type of management arrangement, are not public employees within the meaning of this subchapter and shall not be provided state fund coverage for workers' compensation benefits under the provisions of this subchapter;
(4)(A) County employees and officers of the counties of this state, and the employees of any board, commission, department, or institution owned, operated, managed, or administered by the counties, including employees of county-owned hospitals and nursing homes operated, managed, or administered by private management companies or enterprises under a management agreement under the terms of which the em
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-5-603
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4-75-601. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Improper means” includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means;
(2) “Misappropriation” means:
(A) Acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or
(B) Disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who:
(i) Used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or
(ii) At the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that his knowledge of the trade secret was:
(a) Derived from or through a person who had utilized improper means to acquire it;
(b) Acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or
(c) Derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or
(iii) Before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake;
(3) “Person” means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity;
(4) “Trade secret” means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:
(A) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 4-75-601
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8-7-1007. Workplace chemical lists.
(a) Each public employer shall compile and maintain a workplace chemical list which shall contain the following information for each hazardous chemical normally used, generated, or stored in the workplace in an amount equal to or greater than fifty-five gallons (55 gals.) or five hundred pounds (500 lbs.):
(1) The chemical name or common name used on the material safety data sheet or the container label;
(2) The Chemical Abstracts Service number for such hazardous chemical if such Chemical Abstracts Service number is included on the material safety data sheet; and
(3) The work area or workplace in which the hazardous chemical is normally used, generated, or stored.
(b) Each public employer shall update the workplace chemical list with the Director of the Division of Labor as necessary, but in any case by July 1 of each year.
(c) A public employer may meet the requirements of this section with respect to a hazardous chemical which is a mixture either by identifying on the workplace chemical list each element or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous chemical or by identifying on the workplace chemical list the mixture itself. If more than one (1) mixture has the same element or compound, only one (1) listing of the element or compound is necessary.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-7-1007
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 8-7-1007. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.