Engineers of IDGC of Centre - Belgorodenergo division held a training seminar on prevention of electrical injuries for the Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Korochansky district. The event was attended by 15 district commissioners and inspectors for juvenile affairs.
During the meeting, an engineer of the industrial safety and production control department of Belgorodenergo Olesya Kurchenko told the police about the typical causes of accidents with serious health consequences, recalled the basic rules of electrical safety and the effect of electric current on the human body. The engineer paid special attention to the inadmissibility of violation of security zones of power lines during loading, unloading, construction and any other work related to storage of materials and soil excavation. Such facts must be stopped immediately, because they can turn into extremely negative consequences or end in tragedy.
“Most often, negligence, illiteracy or thirst for profit become the cause of death,” Olesya Kurchenko emphasized. “At risk there are socially unreliable categories of citizens, minors in conflict with the law, fishermen, drivers of cranes, manipulators, dump trucks. All of them, under a certain set of circumstances, can supplement the sad statistics.”
In the case of falling into the zone of “step voltage”, it is necessary to remember that it is possible to leave it only in a “goose step”, without taking the foot off the ground, consistently placing the heel of one leg to the toe of the other. The driver of heavy machinery, who suddenly found himself in the electric shock zone, to save life, should stay in the cabin and immediately contact power engineers by calling the direct line of IDGC of Centre at 13-50 to disconnect the network.
It is necessary to regularly remind children of the correct choice of places to play - away from power lines and substations. Accidents are caused by making selfies near power equipment, penetration into premises of power facilities, games on roofs of garages where communications pass, fishing, ascent to power line poles, launching kites and radio-controlled toys in the security zone.
As Evgeny Doroshenko, a district police officer of the minors affairs office of the Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Korochansky district, noted, the conversation turned out to be useful and informative: “We have learned a lot of new things for ourselves. The district police officers regularly communicate with residents of the district and now we will be able, if necessary, to warn people about the danger of falling under the action of electric current and to protect them from electrical injury.”