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Staff of IDGC of Centre - Belgorodenergo division conducted a training seminar on electrical safety for teachers of health and safety. Teachers from different schools of the region had a unique opportunity to learn first-hand about the dangers associated with electricity, and how to properly counter the threat.
The number of accidents, related to electrical shock, has decreased in recent years, but the problem still remains topical. Both adults and children are at risk. The reason is that most people do not realize what ignorance or disregard for the rules of electrical safety can lead into.
At the seminar Belgorodenergo’s representatives demonstrated presentations and videos with terrible consequences of human carelessness. All teachers expressed a desire to continue to use these materials in their classrooms. The seminar completed with exercises on a special simulator "Gosha", with which the teachers worked out skills in first aid to the victim from the effects of electric current.
"The school is to provide children with the vital information, to create as soon as possible in each child the culture of competent handling of electricity," considers an engineer of the office of production safety and production control Eduard Anpilov. "Today the topic is presented in the curriculum, unfortunately, not enough. That is why we consider it our duty as often as possible to pay attention to the rules of behaviour of people in the protected zones of power lines, transformer substations and other power facilities, which are around us everywhere."
Electric injury risk increases dramatically during the school holidays, when children spend a lot of time outdoors and are often left to themselves. In this case, it is the very teachers of health and safety, class masters and, of course, parents can warn teenagers of games near energy facilities.
"Children face most of the risk outdoors. And here it is important that the child will not be at a loss and do the right thing, as taught in school. Preventive lessons are very important - they give not only knowledge but also skills necessary for life," the teacher of health and safety of the Grushevskaya high school in Volokonovsky district Victor Potekhin has no doubt.
Over the past few years hundreds of teachers became participants of such training workshops in the Belgorod region. In the future the category of participants will be expanded with heavy vehicle drivers, neighbourhood authorized inspectors and juvenile officers.
