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Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 053 - Workforce Services, Department ofSubagency 0013 - OSHA - Oil & Gas Well Services
Chapter 3 - GENERAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROVISIONS
Section 3-1 - General Rules for Well Operators, Employees, Contractors and Sub-Contractors

053-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-1

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Current through April 27, 2019
Section 3-1 - General Rules for Well Operators, Employees, Contractors and Sub-Contractors

(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 a 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.

NOTE: It has been determined by the Wyoming Occupational Health and Safety Commission that a servicing unit which is performing drilling operations is subject to the Wyoming Occupational Health and Safety Rules and Regulations for Oil and Gas Well Drilling.

(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 establishment, 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 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 his job.

(d) Any two 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 or toilet facilities, thus relieving the sub-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 contractor and employers with all available information concerning observed pressure conditions, hazardous fluids, and well conditions which may be encountered in the servicing operations to the best of the well operator's knowledge.

(f) No person shall cause the 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.

053-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-1