Key learnings:
- Safety Rules for Overhead Lines Definition: Safety rules for overhead lines include guidelines to prevent accidents around live electrical conductors.
- Avoid Climbing and Tying: No climbing towers with live conductors and no tying animals to tower parts.
- Handling Snapped Conductors: Proper shutdown and earthing are essential before touching snapped conductors.
- Maintain Safe Clearances: Follow safety clearances for overhead lines to avoid hazards.
- Report Issues: Report any sparking or other issues with live overhead lines to authorities.
- These are general public-side rules for live overhead lines, not a substitute for the local utility code. Nobody should climb any tower carrying live overhead conductors.
- Cows or other domestic animals should not be tied with any tower legs and stay wires.
- Nobody should be allowed to throw any metallic strip, metallic wire, ropes and green twinges to the live over head lines.
- If any conductor is snapped or dangling from the tower, treat it as live. Do not touch it until the circuit is isolated and earthed from both end substations. Then apply a temporary earth with an earthing rod before repair.
- If you see any sparking on live overhead conductors, inform the authorities immediately.
- Do not place any temporary or permanent structures under live overhead lines that reduce their ground clearance.
- We should not carry any long metallic poles, bamboos, pipes etc below the live conductors. Farming just below the over head electrical lines are allowed but cultivation of sugarcanes like plants h be avoided if those grow above 5 meters height.
- Vehicles taller than 5 meters should not pass under live overhead lines.
- Do not build any structures directly under or too close to overhead lines. Follow standard electrical clearance rules.
- We should not touch any over head tower body during rain.
- We should keep sufficient safe distance from the over head line during stormy weather. During storm, any line conductor or tower may accidentally fall on us.
