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IDGC of Centre – Kostromaenergo division held a round table devoted to prevention and avoidance of accidents involving children at power grid facilities. It was attended by representatives of the region’s authorities and the regional centre, General Directorate of EMERCOM of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kostroma Region, Rostekhnadzor, the All-Russia voluntary fire society.
The power company introduced the participants with experience in the field of prevention of children’s electric injuries. So, last year experts of the Kostroma branch of IDGC of Centre held about 300 electrical safety lessons in the region’s schools, participants of which were nearly five thousand children. Preventive work did not stop during the summer holidays either: power engineers organized in the country and school camps themed route games. At the same time, most of the activities carried out in collaboration with the regional offices of the Ministry of Interior and EMERCOM of Russia, education departments of the region and the city of Kostroma, within the framework of agreements on consolidation of efforts in the implementation of measures to prevent electric injuries among children and adolescents.
In addition, representatives of Kostromaenergo actively disseminated information materials in the region with a reminder of the rules of behaviour near power facilities. Hundreds of copies of the children’s book on electrical safety "Energolandiya", published with the support of IDGC of Centre, thematic timetables, disks with materials on the prevention of children’s electric injuries were sent to educational and social security institutions.
The roundtable participants discussed the issues of expansion of cooperation in the field of prevention of children’s electric injuries. In particular, it was decided to conduct electrical safety lessons as a system so that they reach a larger number of institutions. Also – to try in 2017 a new format of preventive work for high school pupils - flash mobs and quests for electrical safety. Specialists of the occupational health service of Kostromaenergo have already started working on the script for a "preventive" adventure game.
Another result of the round table was an agreement to hold by Kostromaenergo’s specialists an electrical safety training for health and safety teachers - such a proposal was made by employees of the Department of Education of Kostroma. In addition, the power engineers expressed their willingness to provide teachers with appropriate methodological and didactic guidelines, printed media, electronic presentations, which can be used during lessons.
