Illinois Administrative Code
Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Part 785 - JOINT RULES OF THE ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION, THE OFFICE OF THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL, AND THE ILLINOIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY: FIRE PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
Section 785.30 - Safety Program

Universal Citation: 83 IL Admin Code § 785.30

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024

a) Each carrier shall adopt and execute a safety program, fitted to the size and type of its operations. As a minimum, the safety program shall:

1) Stress reasonable procedures designed to reduce the hazards to which its employees, its customers, and the general public may be subjected by its operations;

2) Require employees to use suitable tools and equipment in order that they may perform their work in a safe manner;

3) Instruct employees in safe methods of performing their work;

4) Instruct employees who, in the course of their work, are subject to the hazard of electrical shock, asphyxiation or drowning, in accepted methods of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

b) Each carrier shall give assistance to the Agencies in the investigation of the cause of accidents or service interruptions and in the determination of suitable means of preventing such occurrences.

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