# COMAR Title 20 — Public Service Commission

## Subtitle 50 — Service Supplied by Electric Companies

### Chapter 08 — Safety

**Authority:** State Government Article, §7-207; Public Utilities Article, §§2-113, 2-121, 5-101, 5-303, and 5-304; Annotated Code of Maryland

**Administrative History:** Effective date: May 22, 1942 (Order No. 38330)

**Administrative History:** Chapter revised effective May 18, 1960 (Order No. 54348)

**Administrative History:** Chapter revised effective June 1, 1965 (Order No. 55819)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .03A amended effective March 12, 2007 (34:5 Md. R. 562)

#### Regulation .01 Protective Measures.

*COMAR 20.50.08.01*

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

B. 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.

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

#### Regulation .02 Safety Program.

*COMAR 20.50.08.02*

A. Adopt Safety Program. Each utility shall adopt and execute a safety program, fitted to the size and type of its operations.

B. 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.

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

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

#### Regulation .03 Grounding of Secondary Distribution System.

*COMAR 20.50.08.03*

A. Standard Codes. Each utility shall use the applicable provisions in the National Electrical Safety Code and the National Electrical Code, which have been incorporated by reference in COMAR 20.50.02.02, for the grounding of secondary circuits and equipment.

B. Testing Grounds. Artificial grounds not connected to a multigrounded system shall be tested for ground resistance at the time of installation.

C. Records of Tests. Records shall be kept of all ground resistance tests made in accordance with §B, above.

D. Inspection of Grounds. The utility shall establish a program of inspection to insure that artificial grounds are in good mechanical and electrical condition.