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3.1.1 Apart from establishing safety while working/testing on electric system and
equipments specified in these Safety Rules and Safety Instructions, General
Safety shall always be established and maintained. The person responsible
for establishing such General Safety will be the Company Officer holding the
Safety Document before working / testing starts. During the working / testing
the Company in charge of the work shall ensure that all members of the working
crew maintain General Safety. It is the responsibility of all members of the
working party, overseen by the Company Officer, to ensure that their activities
do not affect other work areas.
3.1.2 All Safety Rules, Safety Instructions and Procedures are mandatory. Similarly
all relevant Safety Rules issued by Competent Authorities shall also be
considered mandatory when designated as such in Basic Safety Rules.
Any person who has objections on safety grounds in the application of these
Safety Rules and Safety Instructions shall explain their reasons to the Company
Officer. If the objections cannot be resolved immediately, then the matter should
be referred to the higher Authority. If the objections are still not resolved, then
the matter should be referred to the Project Management Group (PMG)
Head or Operation & Maintenance Group Head as the case may be.
3.4.1 Company Safety Rules and Safety instructions shall be applied when working
on, or near to items of energized / de-energized Equipments / Lines which are
owned by Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited.
3.4.2 Equipments shall be added to and removed from a system only in accordance
with an Approved Handing over/Taking Over Procedures. This procedure will
determine when the Safety Rules and Safety Instruction shall apply, or do not
apply.
3.4.3 No unauthorized person shall be allowed to enter into switching and
controlling area of substation. A signboard distinctly displaying this notice
shall be provided on the gate meant for entry in to the switching & controlling
area of substation.
3.4.4 The staff should take care that the conducting material such as ladders, steel
tape etc. should not be used in the switchyard, however if it is to be used one
should take care that it should not come within the induction zone while
movement of such material. Also, staff should avoid use of umbrella in the
switchyard.
3.4.5 Normally, a standard first aid box with medicines & bandages etc. available in
the market made of steel sheet shall be provided in each & every control
room.
3.4.6 Temporary changes or change over made in the switchyard or control room or
on the EHV line should be displayed on the board near to the sitting
arrangement of the shift in charge till such arrangement exists.
3.5.1 Persons shall not be allowed any part of their body or objects to approach within
the following Safety Clearances exposed EHV/HV conductors, which are
Live. (Except during approved live line work).
3.5.2 When Points of Isolation are established and exposed conductors/parts could
be subject to EHV or HV, the only object permitted to approach within Safety
Clearance shall be Approved voltage measuring devices or Earthing Devices.
3.5.2 When Points of Isolation are established and Danger is excluded by
application of Earthing Devices, approach is allowed under an appropriate
Safety Document within the specified Safety Clearance.
3.7.1 Where reasonably practical, working on, or near to, MV and LV equipments
should be carried out with that equipment 'Dead'.