# Safety Program

**Citation:** COMAR 20.55.09.02  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Maryland Public Service Commission  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** Not stated

Maryland pipeline-safety provision COMAR 20.55.09.02, Safety Program.

## Document text

A. Adopt Safety Program. Each utility, including its contractors, shall adopt and execute a safety program, fitted to the size and type of its operations.

B. Use Suitable Tools and Equipment. Each utility or gas master meter operator may require its employees and contractors to use suitable tools and equipment in order that they may perform their work in a safe manner.

C. Promote Safe Work Methods. Each utility or gas master meter operator may instruct its employees and contractors in safe methods of performing their work.

D. Instruct In Artificial Respiration. Each utility should instruct its employees and contractors who, in the course of their work, are subject to the hazard of electric shock, asphyxiation, or drowning, in accepted methods of artificial respiration.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://regs.maryland.gov/us/md/exec/comar/20.55.09.02>
- Source ID: `maryland-comar`
- SHA-256: `2995500c3aebdc7f0d2349743334022110e1bcb0ec23f835a0e0caf134d297cd`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T08:47:37.108Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T19:06:59.702Z
- Document slug: `md-comar-20-55-09-02`

### Source metadata

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{
  "jurisdiction": "US-MD",
  "commodity": [
    "natural-gas",
    "other-gas"
  ],
  "legalScope": "Bounded Maryland PSC pipeline-safety rules in COMAR 20.55-20.57.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Maryland PSC enforcement under PHMSA certification is limited to intrastate gas and hazardous-liquid pipeline operators and applicable LPG systems. PHMSA retains inspection and enforcement responsibility for interstate gas and hazardous-liquid pipelines. Coverage also depends on operator class, gas-company or master-meter status, facility and commodity definitions, exemptions, waivers, and federal preemption.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "Maryland provisions use both fixed editions of private or federal guidance and prospective phrases such as 'as amended' for federal statutes and 49 CFR. This connector preserves the consolidated Maryland text retrieved on the stated date but does not infer that every later federal amendment is incorporated for every legal purpose. Verify the controlling Maryland incorporation rule, federal edition, and event date.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The Library of Maryland Regulations is the official consolidated access system, but the Maryland Register and filed rulemaking record control adoption history. Administrative-history notes are evidence aids, not substitutes for the promulgation record. The PSC program description is dated September 2011 and is used only to corroborate program scope, not current rule text.",
  "rightsCaveat": "Official Maryland and federal legal-source captures are preserved with attribution and hashes. State presentation, seals, site software, and incorporated private standards may carry separate rights; incorporated standards are referenced but not reproduced by this connector.",
  "references": [],
  "region": "MD"
}
```