Safe holidays: DTEK Dnipro Grids reminds 8 simple rules of electrical safety for kids

In order to protect yourself, your children and people around you from electrocution, you should always follow rules of electrical safety. This is especially important now, when children go on summer holidays and will spend more time outdoors:

• Do not touch bare wires and cables. Remember that electric current has no smell or color.
• Always hold the electric plug by its housing, when removing it from the socket. Never pull the cord or touch it with wet hands.
• Check if the electrical devices are disconnected from the socket before cleaning or washing them.
• Do not approach the switchboards, transformers or any other power facilities. They are usually marked with a special sign in the form of a triangle with a lightning on the yellow background.
• Keep a safe distance away from the power lines. Do not play underneath them and do not climb the poles.
• Do not touch the trees, which branches are in contact with the power lines. Do not pluck the fruits from it and do not shake the branches.
• Do not approach and do not let others approach the broken wires closer than 8 meters. Inform the energy workers about such emergency as soon as possible.
• If you found yourself in the 8-meter zone near the broken wire, leave it immediately – with a goose step, holding legs together.

We ask parents to tell kids about these simple rules of electrical safety.

“When we remove synthetic clothes, play with pets or unpack plastic packages, such as food wrap or bags, we can feel slight crackling or tingling in the palms of the hands and fingers. This is a static charge that happens due to the ability of the human body to accumulate static electricity and discharge, when coming into contact with other items, — told head of the DTEK Dnipro Grids occupational safety division Oleksii Nosov. – This is the same electrical current that “passes through” power lines, sockets and household appliances, present in every home. Although it is hundreds, and sometimes thousands of times stronger than the static charge. Being hit by such current is very dangerous.”

If you saw broken wires, damaged poles, open doors of electrical installations or lack of locks on the transformer substations, please inform us via the contact center +38 (056/066/067/063) 790-99-00 or write to us via Facebook private messages.