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Distributor—A business, other than a manufacturer or importer, which supplies hazardous chemicals to other distributors or to employers. Division —The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), California Department of Industrial Relations, or designee. Emergency—Any potential occurrence such as, but not limited to, equipment failure, rupture of containers, or failure of control equipment, which may or does result in a release of a hazardous chemical into the workplace. Employee— Every person who is required or directed by any employer, to engage in any employment, or to go to work or be at any time in any place of employment. Employer— Employer means: A. The State and every State agency. B. Each county, city, district, and all public and quasi-public corporations and public agencies therein. C. Every person including any public service corporation, which has any natural person in service. D. The legal representative of any deceased employer. Exposure or Exposed —Any situation arising from work operation where an employee may ingest, inhale, absorb through the skin or eyes, or otherwise come into contact with a hazardous chemical. Hazard category—The division of criteria within each hazard class, e.g., oral acute toxicity and flammable liquids include four hazard categories. These categories compare hazard severity within a hazard class and should not be taken as a comparison of hazard categories more generally. Hazard class—The nature of the physical or health hazards, e.g., flammable solid, carcinogen, oral acute toxicity. Hazard not otherwise classified (HNOC) —An adverse physical or health effect identified through evaluation of scientific evidence during the classification process that does not meet the specified criteria for the physical and health hazard classes addressed in this section. This does not extend coverage to adverse physical and health effects for which there is a hazard class addressed in this section, but the effect either falls below the cut-off value/concentration limit of the hazard class or is under a GHS hazard category that has not been adopted by OSHA (e.g., acute toxicity Category 5). Hazard statement—A statement assigned to a hazard class and category that describes the nature of the hazard(s) of a chemical, including, where appropriate, the degree of hazard. Hazardous chemical —Any chemical which is classified as a physical hazard or a health hazard, a simple asphyxiant, combustible dust, pyrophoric gas, a hazard not otherwise classified, or is included in the List of Hazardous Substances prepared by the Director pursuant to Labor Code section 6382. 10 Questions? Call EEAP 1 -800-734-3574 E & A ,kE,.FE,.o 11.