(a) Person. means one or more individual, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives, or any organized group of persons.

(b) Employer means a person engaged in a business who has employees, and includes Guam or any political subdivision thereof.

(c) Employee means an employee of an employer including any persons who is suffered or permitted to work in the employer’s business.

(d) Territory means the island of Guam in the Marianas
Islands as defined in the Organic Act of Guam, as amended (Title
48 §§ 1421 et seq., U.S.C.A.).

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(e) Occupational Safety and Health Standard means a standard which requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes, reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe or healthful employment and place of employment.

(f) Federal standard includes national consensus standard or established federal standard, as defined in Section 3 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-596).

(g) Department means the Department of Labor.

(h) Director means the Director of Labor, or his authorized representative.

(i) Court means the Superior Court of Guam.

(j) Appellate Court means the District Court of Guam.

SOURCE: GC § 48202.

2022 NOTE: Reference to “”territory”” omitted pursuant to 1 Guam Code Ann. § 420.

2014 NOTE: Pursuant to the authority granted by 1 GCA § 1606, subsection designations were altered from numbers to lowercase letters to adhere to the Compiler’s alpha-numeric scheme.