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Preventing occupational injuries, maintaining the health and life of personnel, raising the level of knowledge of employees in the field of occupational safety and health are among the most important priorities for IDGC of Centre and IDGC of Centre and Volga Region. The companies, where in the autumn of last year by the decision of PJSC Rosseti a unified management was introduced, strengthen interaction in this issue, jointly set tasks for the near future and share positive experiences with each other.
For the purpose of developing measures to unify and improve the policy in this area, representatives of the management of specialized divisions, as well as branches of IDGC of Centre and IDGC of Centre and Volga Region, conducted a number of joint workshops during the last months. They, in particular, defined the list of the basic tasks on industrial safety for 2017.
Among them is an increase in the level of production control over actions of operating personnel in order to reduce risks of injuries; strengthening the control over the technical condition, timing and observance of the established procedure for technical inspection of equipment, industrial buildings and facilities, as well as for compliance with fire and industrial safety requirements when operating electric grid facilities, taking into account changes in regulations. An important place this year will be paid to improve the management structure in the field of industrial safety and production control in general.
In the framework of the formation of a unified policy of IDGC of Centre and IDGC of Centre and Volga Region in the field of industrial safety, much attention is paid to the development of mechanisms for spreading the positive experience of individual branches to all production divisions of companies. Thus, during the meetings positive experience of Smolensk and Tambov branches of IDGC of Centre was noted in the part of application of the corporate information system of resource management (ERP) on the basis of SAP. IDGC of the Centre and Volga Region highly appreciated the work on the prevention of injuries and violations of safety requirements based on the practice of investigating incidents without consequences and micro-injuries. In addition, it was decided to take into account the experience of the Nizhnovenergo branch in matters of safe work organization at altitudes in 0.4-10 kV distribution networks and the use of locking devices when working in electrical installations and Udmurtenergo - in terms of safety of work on overhead lines and connection of substations under induced voltage.
They also discussed at the meetings initiatives aimed at minimizing the incidence of occupational injuries. In particular, the experience of implementing in the Yarenergo branch of IDGC of Centre and the Ryazanenergo branch of IDGC of Centre and Volga Region of video monitoring systems for actions of operating personnel, which allow to increase the level of discipline among employees and the level of their training, and to form generally accessible information base of video materials for use by relevant services. As a result, a decision was made to implement a similar system in all branches of IDGC of Centre - this work is planned to be carried out in 2017-2020.
An important aspect of the uniform policy in the field of industrial safety is the organization of training of drivers of both power companies under the "Program of defensive driving" by specially trained specialists-mentors - it is planned to be held before the beginning of the autumn-winter period of 2017-2018. In addition, this year, in order to improve the management system of industrial safety and production control and improve efficiency, IDGC of Centre and IDGC of Centre and Volga Region plan to complete consolidation of the basic documents in the areas of activity of the core business units.