(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.
(c) (1) “Employee” means, except as provided in § 5–401 of this title, an individual whom an employer employs, for a wage or other compensation, in the business of the employer.
(2) “Employee” includes:
(i) an individual whom a public body employs;
(ii) an individual who is licensed as a taxicab driver and leases or rents a taxicab from a person who operates or owns a taxicab business in Baltimore City;
(iii) an individual who is employed for part–time or temporary help by a public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help to another public body or person; and
(iv) an individual who performs work for a public body or person to whom the individual is provided by another public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help.
(d) (1) “Employer” means:
(i) except as provided in § 5–401 of this title, a person who is engaged in commerce, industry, trade, or other business in the State and employs at least one employee in that business; or
(ii) a public body.
(2) “Employer” includes:
(i) a person who operates or owns a taxicab business in Baltimore City and leases or rents a taxicab to a licensed taxicab driver, to provide services to the public;
(ii) a public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help to another public body or person; and
(iii) a public body or person who contracts directly with another public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help to another public body or person.
(e) “Occupational safety and health standard” means a regulation that requires:
(1) a condition that is reasonably appropriate or necessary to make employment and places of employment safe and healthful; or
(2) the adoption or use of a means, method, operation, practice, or process that is reasonably appropriate or necessary to make employment and places of employment safe and healthful.
(f) “Person” includes a successor.
(g) “Place of employment” means a place in or about which an employee is allowed to work.
(h) “Public body” means:
(1) a governmental unit;
(2) a public or quasi–public corporation of the State;
(3) a school district in the State or any unit of the district; or
(4) a special district in the State or any unit of the district.
(i) (1) “Workplace violence” means an act of violence or a threat of violence that occurs at a place of employment and that is not a lawful act of self–defense or defense of another person.
(2) “Workplace violence” includes, regardless of whether the employee is physically or psychologically injured:
(i) using or threatening to use physical force against an employee; or
(ii) an incident involving the use of or threatening the use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon.