Hotline of power engineering specialists:
IDGC of Centre continue systemic work to reduce risks of injuries to third parties at power grid facilities. In the first half of the year of 2018, 199.2 million rubles were allocated for the program to reduce risks of injuries to third parties, which includes a set of organizational, technical and information-explanatory measures of IDGC of Centre.
In accordance with the program, IDGC of Centre’s specialists conduct regular inspection of the company’s power facilities for integrity of doors, locks, and the presence of locking devices. As part of the implementation of a set of technical measures, bare wire is replaced with self-supporting insulated wire (SIW) on 10/0.4 kV power lines passing through territories of people’s places of mass stay: schools, playgrounds, densely populated residential buildings. All power facilities have signs and posters that report the danger of electric current. These measures contribute to reducing the risk of electric injury to third parties being near electrical installations.
Particular attention is paid to advocacy among various groups of the population. In electronic and print media, there are memos on electrical safety for construction, agricultural and other enterprises, requirements for operation of independent power supply sources, fire safety, and rules for behaviour in a thunderstorm.
The most serious attention is paid to prevention of electric injuries among the younger generation. IDGC Centre’s employees organize thematic lessons in educational institutions of regions, where they introduce children and adolescents to the rules of safe behaviour near power facilities and the rules for using electrical appliances. This work is especially active on the eve of holidays, when children spend a lot of time in the absence of adults, and continues throughout the summer months in camps for children’s recreation. Thematic lessons are conducted with involvement of parents and teachers.
The measures taken make it possible to minimize the number of accidents involving third parties at facilities of the power grid infrastructure. However, due to the fact that not all citizens are sufficiently responsive to the need for strict adherence to the rules of electrical safety, they cannot be completely ruled out. Often, they are violated by adolescents and young people.
Most often, causes of injury to citizens are approaching electrical installations at an unacceptable distance, fishing and conducting unauthorized work and within exclusion zones of overhead and cable power lines, committing illegal actions (theft of electricity, equipment).
So, a resident of Yaroslavl when fishing in the exclusion zone approached with the fishing rod at an unacceptable distance the outer conductor of the overhead line, which resulted in fatal electric shock.
When performing work not approved with the branch "Tverenergo" with the use of a crane - a manipulator under wires of the overhead line, the driver and his assistant were shocked. The driver died on the spot, the assistant received electric injury.
IDGC of Centre’s specialists remind that it is strictly prohibited: to approach electrical installations and broken wires; climb poles of overhead power lines, roofs of houses and structures, near electric wires; carry out unauthorized work and engage in fishing within exclusion zones of overhead lines. It’s deadly dangerous!
Also, IDGC of Centre’s specialists remind of simple rules, compliance with which will avoid the risk of electric injury:
- never enter the territory and premises of transformer substations and other electric grid facilities;
- do not open doors of electrical installations and in no case go beyond fences and barriers;
- do not touch electrical parts of substations and its metal parts (doors, stairs, etc.);
- do not climb power lines (Conductors) and do not play near them;
- do not touch ragged or sagging wires of the power line at a distance of more than 8 metres;
- do not arrange fishing in the protected zone of the power line using fiberglass and telescopic fishing rods, as well as launching kites and aircraft;
- it is strictly forbidden to make an extreme photo (selfie) on power line poles, structures of transformer substations and the territory adjacent to them. Using a monopod for selfie can lead to electrical injuries incompatible with life.
All identified damage to equipment of the power grid complex must immediately be reported to the dispatching offices of their Distribution Zones or by the 24-hour hotline of power engineers. The single direct number of power engineers of IDGC of Centre is 8-800-50-50-115. All calls are toll-free.