Chapter 08. Safety

Exercise Reasonable Care. Each utility shall exercise reasonable care to minimize the hazards to which its employees, its customers, and the general public may be subjected.

Investigation by Commission. The utility shall give reasonable assistance to the Commission in the investigation of the cause of accidents and in the determination of suitable means of preventing accidents.

Record of Accidents. Each utility shall maintain a summary of all reportable accidents arising from its operations.

Adopt Safety Program. Each utility shall adopt and execute a safety program, fitted to the size and type of its operations, including the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

Use Suitable Tools and Equipment. Each utility should require its employees to use suitable tools and equipment in order that they may perform their work in a safe manner.

Promote Safe Work Methods. Each utility should instruct its employees in safe methods of performing their work.

Instruct in Artificial Respiration. Each utility should instruct its employees, who, in the course of their work, are subject to the hazards of electrical shock or drowning, in accepted methods of artificial respiration.