053-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-1

Current through April 27, 2019

Section 3-1 - General Rules for Well Operators, Employers, Employees, Contractors and Sub-Contractors

(a) Each well operator, employer, employee, contractor and subcontractor shall separately be charged with the responsibilities and duties as required by the Act, the Rules of Practice and Procedure, the Rules and Regulations (General), the Rules and Regulations for Construction and these rules and regulations, as they relate to the machinery, tools, materials or equipment and to the employees of each of them as applicable.

(b) Accident prevention responsibilities:

• (i) It shall be the responsibility of the employer to initiate and maintain such programs as may be necessary to comply with these rules and regulations.

• (ii) Such programs shall provide for frequent and regular inspections of the establishment, materials, and equipment to be made by competent persons designated by the employer.

• (iii) The employer shall prohibit the use of any machinery, tool, material, or equipment which he knows or reasonably should know is not in compliance with any applicable requirement of these rules and regulations. Such machine, tool, material, or equipment shall either be identified as unsafe by locking the controls to render them inoperable or shall be physically removed from its place of operation.

• (iv) The employer shall permit only authorized persons, or employees being trained under the supervision of a qualified person(s) to operate equipment or machinery.

(c) No employer for any part of the operation covered by these rules and regulations shall require any employee to work in surroundings or under working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to his health or safety, beyond the normal hazards inherent in the job.

(d) Any two (2) or more employers who have employees at one job site (such as prime contractors and sub-contractors) may make their own arrangements with respect to obligations which might be more appropriately treated on a job site basis rather than individually. Thus, for example, the prime contractor and his sub-contractors may wish to make an agreement that the prime contractor or one of the sub-contractors will provide all required first-aid or toilet facilities, thus relieving the subcontractors from the actual, but not any legal responsibility (or, as the case may be, relieving the other sub-contractors from this responsibility.)

(e) The well operator shall be responsible for furnishing the general drilling program and plans and will provide contractor and employers with all available information concerning abnormal pressure conditions and hazardous fluids which may be encountered in the drilling operations to the best of the well operator's knowledge.

(f) No person shall cause the well to be spudded or other operations to proceed until the contractor or sub-contractor, as appropriate, has declared his equipment and employees are safely prepared to proceed.

(g) No person shall require rig modification to be made or cause auxiliary equipment to be installed which are in conflict with these rules and regulations.

053-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-1