Occupational Safety and Health Act Article 2

The terms used in the Act are defined as follows:1.The term “workers” referred to in the Act means laborers, self-employed workers, or other people engaged in work and directed or supervised by the responsible people in workplaces.2.The term “laborers” referred to in the Act means people employed to work for wages.3.The term “employers” referred to in the Act means the owners of business entities, or the people in positions of managerial responsibility for such business entities.4.The term “business entities” referred to in the Act means entities falling within the scope of this Act, which employ laborers to perform work.5.The term “occupational accidents” referred to in the Act means any diseases, injuries, disabilities, or deaths of workers caused by buildings, machinery, equipment, raw materials, materials, chemicals, gases, vapors, dusts, etc., at the place of duty, or as a result of work activities, or due to other occupational causes.6.The term “place of duty” referred to in the Act means the place where the employer assigns laborers to carry out work services to fulfill the terms of the contract, for the duration of the labor contract, the actual place where self-employed workers engage in work, and the actual place where other people engaged in work and directed or supervised by the responsible people in workplaces engage in work.7.The term “workplaces” referred to in the Act means the place where the person who accepts the employer's or the interim employer's directions for handling of related laborer affairs can direct and manage, within the place of duty.8.The term “job sites” referred to in the Act mean sites where work for specific purposes takes place within a workplace.