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FEC Promotes Electrical Safety Month
With a creative approach and assistance from Fayette Electric Cooperative Lineman Greg Noak and Marketing and Training Coordinator Catherine Poppe and their props, 137 students and adults had the opportunity to learn how electricity is made, and how to avoid the dangers this powerful force presents in their daily lives. Each year thousands of people are injured or die from electrical-related fires, electric shock or electrocution at home and on the job. “In support of the Fayette Electric Cooperative’s Fifth Cooperative Principle, ‘Education, Training and Information’, and in support of a nationwide effort to help reduce these accidents, the cooperative raises awareness about electrical safety through school and community presentations,” said Poppe. “May is designated as National Electrical Safety Month and is an ideal time to remind adults and children of the electrical hazards around us at home, work, school and play, and of the simple steps we can take to avoid the personal tragedy behind the statistics,” she added. Noak and Poppe presented safety demonstrations at Hermes Elementary School in La Grange on April 25. ‘Louie the Lighting Bug’ took the first grade students on a journey entitled, “Play it Safe Around Electricity”, to teach the children about electricity, how it is made and used all around the home, school and workplace, and basic electric safety rules. The students also witnessed the Electric Junction presentation that further teaches the importance of electric safety rules. “Lightning Liz” and “Neon Leon” were the stars of the realistic program demonstration that uses real electricity to allow the children to witness how electricity travels through conductors like metal, human bodies, tree limbs and kites. The figures, two glass dolls fitted with filaments inside, lit up as Noak demonstrated each of them becoming victims of a variety of electrical accidents. “Sharing the importance of working and playing it safe around power lines and other electrical equipment with area youth is one of the most important things we do,” said Gary Don Nietsche, general manager.
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How do you create awareness about something that is silent, invisible, odorless,
tasteless, and powerful, and is used everyday, everywhere in the home, school
and workplace?