Each gas system shall adopt and execute a safety program, fitted to the size and type of its operations. As a minimum, the safety program should comply with the Federal Regulations: Minimum Safety Standards for the Transportation of Natural and Other Gas, 49 C.F.R., as amended from time to time:
a. Require employees to use suitable tools and equipment in order that they may perform their work in a safe manner.b. Instruct employees in safe methods of performing their work.c. Instruct employees, who, in the course of their work are subject to the hazard of electrical shock, asphyxiation or drowning, in accepted methods of artificial respiration.d. Establish liaison with appropriate public officials including fire and police officials in anticipation of a potential emergency.e. Establish an educational program to enable customers and the general public to recognize and report a gas emergency to the appropriate officials.S.C. Code Regs. § 103-492
Amended by State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008.