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Marietta BLW approves emergency-shift change to allow up to 24-hour first shifts
Summary
The Marietta Board of Light and Water voted unanimously to revise Policy 6.2 to allow a single crew shift to extend to 24 hours during declared extreme events, with managerial sign-off and limits to protect CDL compliance.
The Marietta Board of Light and Water on Monday approved revisions to Policy 6.2 that allow crews to extend an initial emergency shift to 24 hours during declared extreme events, with supervisory checks to limit worker fatigue and maintain compliance with Department of Transportation rules.
Board members adopted the change unanimously. The revision lets one crew work up to 24 hours on the first shift during a major event so that the utility can maximize outage restoration in that initial period; subsequent consecutive shifts would revert to the existing 16-hour standard unless additional approvals are granted.
The change,…
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