Power engineers of IDGC of Centre in the run-up to the new school year took a number of additional measures to prevent children’s electric injuries

Specialists of IDGC of Centre continue the systematic work on the prevention of children’s electric injuries. On the eve of the new school year, the power engineers implemented a set of additional measures to ensure electrical safety near educational and pre-school institutions in the regions of the company’s service area (11 subjects of the Central Federal District).

At all power facilities located in the territory and near schools and kindergartens, special checks were carried out for the safety of fences, locks, warning signs about the danger of electric shock.

Work was carried out to eliminate dangerous defects of poles, wires and other electrical equipment. Information signs about the danger of electric shock were renewed.

Planned work was carried out for the removal of overhead lines and transformer substations from the territory of schools, playgrounds, areas of mass building and replacement of uninsulated wires of overhead lines with self-supporting insulated wire (SIW).

One of the important components of the work on the prevention of electric injuries among children is lessons on electrical safety. During the summer holidays specialists of IDGC of Centre held several hundred such thematic classes in children’s health and school camps. The power engineers introduced the children to the rules of safe behaviour near power facilities and the rules for the use of electrical appliances, taught them how to move around in the zone of action of ground-fault currents, and taught skills in providing first aid to the victim. With the beginning of the school year this work will be continued.