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Power engineers of branches of IDGC of Centre and IDGC of Centre and Volga Region conducted a social action “Current to lock” in more than a thousand localities in the regions, where the companies operate, to attract the attention of the general public to electrical injuries caused by the careless behaviour of citizens near power facilities with damaged locking devices.
The action was attended by over a thousand activists. They placed special information stickers on doors of 3,400 energy facilities, urging citizens not to remain indifferent, and in case of finding an open door or a broken lock, make a call to the power company.
First of all, the volunteers provided posters with stickers for energy facilities located in areas where children and young people gather: school playgrounds, house territories, parks of culture and recreation.
During the event, the power engineers carried out informational work with the population, explaining the rules of electrical safety behaviour and handing out thematic booklets and leaflets. For a few days of the event, the power company’s specialists held explanatory conversations with more than 13 thousand citizens and distributed more than 4.5 thousand copies of information materials.
The program for the prevention of electrical injuries is annually implemented in the territory of all settlements within the service area of the power companies. It involves both informational and technical events. Power engineers hold lessons with children, take part in parents’ meetings, post social videos in the media, etc. It is obvious that the destructive actions of vandals are more difficult to foresee and prevent than to avoid a child’s possible injury, by not allowing him or her to enter the territory of a power facility with a damaged lock or make a call to the power company. However, during the campaign events, the power company’s experts often encounter the fact that residents do not have information where to call if the door of the transformer substation in the courtyard of the house is open, or the lock on the power facility fence is broken. The campaign “Current to lock” provided the citizens with the necessary information to speed up solving the issue of replacing a defective locking device, if necessary, thereby preventing an injury or tragedy. Thus, one call can save several lives.
The campaign “Current to lock” continues in several regions. All production departments of the power companies will be involved in it to cover the maximum number of power facilities and make the greatest number of children and adolescents safe.
