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<chapter num="08" heading="Safety" title_num="20" subtitle_num="70">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Protective Measures.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>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.</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.</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 require its employees to use safe methods in performing their work.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Public Utility Companies Article, §§2-113, 2-121, 5-101, and 5-303, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: July 1, 1968 (Order No. 57171)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>