New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 9 - ELECTRIC SERVICES
Part 560 - SERVICE STANDARDS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES
Section 17.9.560.16 - SAFETY
Universal Citation: 17 NM Admin Code 17.9.560.16
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Protective measures:
(1) Each utility shall
exercise reasonable care to protect its employees, its customers, and the
general public from hazards to which they may be subjected.
(2) 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.
(3) Each utility shall maintain a summary of
each accident arising from its operations and make such summaries available to
the commission upon request.
(4) A
utility shall not connect a new electric service unless the utility has the
three copies of the application for electrical inspection. This subsection is
not applicable to federal installations for which a state or local inspection
is not required.
B. Safety program: Each utility shall adopt and execute a safety program fitted to the size and type of its operations. As a minimum the safety program should:
(1) require employees to use
suitable tools and equipment in order to perform their work in a safe
manner;
(2) instruct employees in
safe methods of performing their work; and
(3) instruct employees who in the course of
their work are subject to the hazard of electrical shock or drowning in
accepted methods of artificial respiration.
C. Grounding of secondary distribution system: Each utility shall comply with the applicable provisions in the national electrical safety code and the national electrical code for the grounding of secondary circuits and equipment.
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