# COMAR Title 20 — Public Service Commission

## Subtitle 70 — Service Supplied by Water Companies

### Chapter 08 — Safety

**Authority:** Public Utility Companies Article, §§2-113, 2-121, 5-101, and 5-303, Annotated Code of Maryland

**Administrative History:** Effective date: July 1, 1968 (Order No. 57171)

#### Regulation .01 Protective Measures.

*COMAR 20.70.08.01*

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 20.70.08.02*

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 require its employees to use safe methods in performing their work.

D. Instruct in Artificial Respiration. Each utility should require that its employees who, in the course of their work, are subject to the hazards of asphyxiation, electrical shock, or drowning, be properly instructed in accepted methods of artificial respiration.