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<chapter num="08" heading="Safety" title_num="20" subtitle_num="45">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Protective Measures.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Record of Accidents. Each utility shall maintain a summary of all reportable accidents arising from its operations.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Safety Program.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Promote Safe Work Methods. Each utility should instruct its employees in safe methods of performing their work.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Grounding — Standard Codes.">
    <text>Each utility shall use the applicable provisions in the National Electrical Code and in the National Electrical Safety Code, which have been incorporated by reference in COMAR 20.50.02.02, for the grounding of circuits and equipment.</text>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">State Government Article, §7-207(a); Public Utilities Article, §§2-113, 2-121, 5-303, and 5-304, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: January 1, 1976 (Order No. 61496)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .03 amended effective February 26, 2007 (34:4 Md. R. 403)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>