053-3 Wyo. Code R. §§ 3-1 - General Rules
(a) Each well
operator, employer, employee, contractor and subcontractor shall be charged
with the responsibilities and duties as required by the Act, the Rules of
Practice and Procedure, the Rules and Regulations, General, and these rules and
regulations as they relate to the machinery, tools, materials, equipment or
operations 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
inspections of the well site location, materials and equipment. These
inspections shall be performed 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 it inoperable,
physically disable it, or physically remove it from the 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 his 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 subcontractors will provide
all required first aid, thus relieving the other contractors from the actual,
but not from the legal responsibility (or, as the case may be, relieving the
other subcontractors from this responsibility).
(e) The well operator shall be responsible
for furnishing the general and specific well prognosis and plans, and will
provide contractors and employers with all available information concerning
observed pressure conditions, hazardous fluids, and well conditions which may
be encountered in the special servicing operations, to the best of the well
operator's knowledge.
(f) No person
shall cause the special servicing work to commence until the contractor or
sub-contractor, as appropriate, has declared his equipment and employees are
safely prepared to proceed.
(g) No
person shall require any modifications to be made or cause auxiliary equipment
to be installed which are in conflict with these rules and
regulations.
Notes
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