N.M. Admin. Code § 17.9.560.16

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 17.9.560.16 - SAFETY

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.

N.M. Admin. Code § 17.9.560.16

6-30-88; 17.9.560.16 NMAC - Rn, NMPSC 560.50-560.52 & A, 6-15-05, Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXI, Issue 21, November 10, 2020, eff. 11/10/2020