# SAFETY PROGRAM **Citation:** NCUC Rule R6-39 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** North Carolina Utilities Commission **Effective:** Not stated **Published:** Not stated (a) 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 that they may perform their work in a safe manner. (2) Instruct employees in safe meth ## Document text (a) 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 that they may perform their work in a safe manner. (2) Instruct employees in safe methods of performing their work. (3) Instruct employees who, in the course of their work, are subject to the hazard of electrical shock, asphyxiation or drowning, in accepted methods of artificial respiration. (b) The minimum federal safety standards and the corrosion control standards pertaining to gas pipeline safety and the transportation of natural gas as adopted in 49 CFR, Part 192 and 49 CFR, Part 192 Subpart I, as are in effect on November 15, 1971, and amendments thereto, are adopted and shall be applicable to all natural gas facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commission, except as to those requirements of North Carolina law which exceed or are more stringent than the standards set forth in the above-mentioned federal enactment, and further with the exception of any subsequent modification or amendment to the North Carolina safety standards. (c) The Federal Safety Standards pertaining to liquefied natural gas facilities, as adopted in 49 CFR, Part 193, and as were in effect on July 15, 1980, and all subsequent amendments thereto, are adopted and shall be applicable to all liquefied natural gas facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commission. (d) Control of Drug Use. - The Federal Safety Standards pertaining to the control of drug use in natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and hazardous liquid pipeline operations as adopted in 49 CFR, Part 199, and as were in effect on September 19, 1989, and all subsequent amendments thereto, are adopted and shall be applicable to all facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commission. (e) The Federal Safety Standards pertaining to Grants for State Pipeline Safety Programs; State Adoption of One Call Damage Prevention Program as adopted in 49 CFR, Part 198, and as was in effect on September 20, 1990, and all subsequent amendments thereto, are adopted and shall be applicable to all natural gas facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commission. (NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 13, 12/30/70; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 15, 11/15/71; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 17, 12/20/72; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 19, 11/21/73; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 41, 10/1/80; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 54, 9/19/89; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 56, 12/6/90.) ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `nc-ncuc-chapter-6` - SHA-256: `47c63a2518fc64fbb36f7c9829b4572f21ea67891ccead72258e38098ee8929d` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T09:05:56.011Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T03:51:24.675Z - Document slug: `nc-ncuc-r6-39` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-NC", "chapter": 6, "rule": "R6-39", "category": "pipeline-safety", "corpusScope": "bounded-ncuc-chapter-6-pipeline-and-materially-adjacent-gas-safety", "selectedRuleCount": 23, "chapterHeadingCount": 101, "statutoryAuthority": "N.C. Gen. Stat. ยง 62-50", "incorporatedFederalStandards": [ "49 CFR Part 192", "49 CFR Part 193", "49 CFR Part 199", "49 CFR Part 198" ], "references": [ { "citation": "49 CFR Part 192", "referenceType": "federal-regulation-part", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-192" }, { "citation": "49 CFR Part 193", "referenceType": "federal-regulation-part", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-193" }, { "citation": "49 CFR Part 199", "referenceType": "federal-regulation-part", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-199" }, { "citation": "49 CFR Part 198", "referenceType": "federal-regulation-part", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-198" } ], "scopeCaveat": "This is a bounded Chapter 6 pipeline/gas-safety corpus, not the entire 122-page Natural Gas chapter and not a claim to all North Carolina pipeline law. It preserves complete selected rules while excluding broader tariff, billing, customer-relations, metering-administration, service-territory, accounting, expansion-funding, and economic-development rules, plus repealed and reserved provisions.", "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability depends on NCUC jurisdiction under G.S. 62-50, operator and facility status, the rule-specific definition of utility, federal/state jurisdiction and preemption, Commission exemptions or orders, and incorporated federal standards. Chapter 6 also reaches interstate natural-gas companies only insofar as the Commission has safety jurisdiction; it does not establish state jurisdiction over every pipeline or customer-owned installation in North Carolina.", "incorporationCaveat": "R6-39 and R6-41 incorporate federal pipeline requirements and amendments, including 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, 198, and 199, with stated North Carolina modifications. Other selected rules refer to privately published ASME, NFPA, ASA, AGA, NARUC, and testing standards. This connector preserves references but does not reproduce or determine the current content, licensing terms, or legal effect of incorporated material.", "publicationCaveat": "The source is the current agency-hosted Chapter 6 compilation retrieved on the recorded fetch date. NCUC warns on its rules index that posting can lag an order adopting or revising a rule. Publisher history dates are retained as history entries and are not represented as effective dates unless the source expressly says so.", "rights": "North Carolina government text and official source links are preserved for provenance. Public availability does not determine rights in agency seals, site presentation, privately authored standards, or incorporated third-party material; redistribution and downstream use require rights review.", "rightsReviewRequired": true, "region": "NC" } ```