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IDGC of Centre summed up the work on the prevention of children’s electric injuries for five months of 2017. During this period, the power engineers conducted more than 1,500 electrical safety classes in educational and pre-school establishments of regions of its service area (11 subjects of the Central Federal District), involving about 30,000 children and adolescents. The company’s specialists acquainted them with the rules of behaviour near power facilities and the handling of electrical appliances in everyday life, explained the importance of warning signs and safety posters installed on electrical equipment, demonstrated methods of providing first aid to a victim with electric shock.
As in previous years, this work became more active on the eve of holidays - it is in the summer months that children, as you know, spend a lot of time without adult supervision. So, specialists of the branch "Kostromaenergo" only in May organized in schools of their region more than 200 classes. More than 400 lessons were held in the last weeks before the holidays by their colleagues from Kurskenergo. The "Month of electrical safety" was held in Tambovenergo and other branches.
Non-standard formats of information provision were also used. For example, in the streets of Kursk in May, a trolley bus with placards and slogans on the sides, dedicated to the prevention of children’s electric injuries, was running. The organizer of the action was the branch "Kurskenergo". And young specialists of Tverenergo within the framework of the annual festival of volunteering "Square of Goodness" organized a large interactive site in the City Garden of Tver, where they conducted electrical safety lessons and broadcast animated films developed by IDGC of Centre about the need for careful handling of the electric current. In the photo-zone located there, everyone could try on an electrician’s suit and get acquainted with the means of protection.
Preventative work also continues in the summer months. Specialists of IDGC of Centre’s branches conduct classes in suburban and school children’s camps. About 25 lessons in children’s health camps are planned by Tambovenergo’s employees in June-August, and more than three thousand children and adolescents are expected to be their participants. The guys are waiting for thematic master classes, teaching quizzes and entertaining gaming competitions.
In a number of cases, events are organized in cooperation with representatives of regional authorities and law enforcement agencies. Together with employees of the regional department of EMERCOM of Russia, Bryanskenergo’s employees will conduct lessons throughout the summer months. And their colleagues from Kostromaenergo plan to conduct 12 route safety games in school and country camps together with the EMERCOM of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kostroma region, the Kostroma regional branch of the All-Russian Voluntary Fire Society, State-owned Federal State Institution "Rescue Service, Civil Defense and Emergencies" in the Kostroma region and the State inspection of small vessels.
A series of similar classes are also conducted by specialists of the branch "Yarenergo" within the framework of the "Territory of Safety" action. The power engineers together with the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Yaroslavl Region and the Federal Authority for Road Traffic Safety in the Yaroslavl Region in a playful way tell children about the rules of safe behaviour in various situations. The first session of the season was held on 15 June in the "Sakharezh" Children’s Health Camp.
The site with the same name, "Territory of Safety", was organized by Kurskenergo’s employees last weekend at the Kursk Korenskaya Fair, which was held in the town of Svoboda. Small visitors of the exhibition got acquainted there with the rules of electrical safety, answered questions of a thematic quiz and took part in a contest of drawings on asphalt, depicting with the help of crayons how they see safe electricity.
