| Summer is a great time for children to be outside | | | | transformer with its door open stay away from it |
| exploring and playing. Help them safe on their | | | | and report it immediately to the power utility and |
| adventures by teaching them about electrical and | | | | your local police. And what is summer without |
| natural gas safety. If you are enjoying a breezy | | | | water and swimming in the hot and humid |
| day flying a kite together, make sure that you | | | | weather. Whether it is at your own backyard, |
| are in a large open area, far away from overhead | | | | condo or apartment swimming pool, the lake or |
| hydro power lines. Never use metallic wires as a | | | | cottage camp or even the home bathtub, the |
| kite string. Metallic balloons and model airplanes | | | | dangers of water and electricity are all and always |
| should be kept away from overhead lines. There | | | | the same. Keep electric appliances, cords and toys |
| is no denying that children are climbers but teach | | | | away from any sort of water. Similarly if cleaning |
| them to stay away from the fences that | | | | be very careful of flammable cleaning solvents. |
| surround electrical substations. The fences are | | | | Not only can these solvents cause intoxication |
| there to keep people away from the dangerous | | | | from the fumes with kids but as well a spark or |
| high voltage equipment inside a local community | | | | an open flame from a match can ignite the |
| power substation. . Speaking of climbing, children | | | | flammable fluids and even their vapor. Even the |
| should never ever climb on trees that are close | | | | spark from an innocent light switch can ignite the |
| to utility power lines. Nor should they climb utility | | | | vapor of a flammable cleaning fluid vapor. And |
| poles. The only people allowed to climb should be | | | | never for convenience or just laziness on a long |
| the trained power utility employees. And if your | | | | weekend, at the cottage, have lake or home |
| child ever finds a poor animal stuck up on top of | | | | used flammable gasoline as a cleaning fluid. If a |
| a power or utility power, be sure that they know | | | | summer trip or outing takes you in the area of a |
| not to rescue it themselves but to call the help | | | | power station , power dam or waterway always |
| line at the local power or Phone Company. | | | | teach children about the dangers of swimming and |
| Padmount power transformers look like nice short | | | | boating in the vicinity of dam and to obey all |
| metal filing cabinets on a cement slab to kids. | | | | warning signs , rules and regulations. Always stay |
| Another fun toy to be a climbing play structure to | | | | away and clear of hydroelectric dams and power |
| many children. These padmounted power | | | | stations unless of course there are clearly |
| transformer boxes are locked to prevent people | | | | indicated walkways and observation points. |
| from coming into contact with the very | | | | Teaching children safety tips can help keep your |
| dangerous and deadly high voltage equipment on | | | | children as well as their friends safe for their |
| the inside of the locked box. If you do spot a | | | | entire lives. |
| broken or compromised lock or a padmounted | | | | |