Safety
Eliminate risk behind the wheel
Fingrid’s employees and partners often need to travel the country by road. Safe drivers make sensible choices and obey traffic laws.
29.11.2023
Fingrid’s employees and partners often need to travel the country by road. Safe drivers make sensible choices and obey traffic laws.
Fingrid arranges occupational safety training for its employees and service providers. In August, training groups practised rescuing people stuck in confined spaces at reserve power plants.
With many working groups operating side-by-side on a main grid worksite, everyone must know exactly what work is underway and
which stage it has reached. Since the start of June, it has been mandatory to announce the need for additional earthing – this is one of the steps Fingrid has taken to ensure safety.
The Network Code for Emergency and Restoration (NC ER) was prepared by the European Commission to prevent disturbances from spreading and causing blackouts and ensure that the system can be swiftly restored to normal operation.
Fingrid has run annual occupational safety campaigns on its worksites. Last year’s campaign reminded employees that occupational safety is created by individuals and teams.
The number of incidents in which the earthing rules were not followed for
one reason or another was higher than normal in 2022.
A safety mindset is already integral to everyday work on Fingrid’s sites. Safety is discussed naturally during
orientations and meetings, and the personnel on worksites make weekly observations to enhance safety.
In September, organisations critical to the security of supply in the Helsinki metropolitan area conducted an exercise simulating an electricity distribution disturbance
in the main grid and distribution network.
Fingrid has strict occupational safety rules for additional earthing.
When we talk about work and how it could be improved, the discussions
increasingly touch upon occupational safety. In line with Fingrid’s safety theme for 2022, occupational safety is created by individuals and teams.
Fingrid Oyj
Läkkisepäntie 21
00620 Helsinki
Tel. 030 395 5267
Fingrid.fi
Cookie declaration
Privacy policy
Fingrid is Finland’s transmission system operator. We secure reliable electricity cost effectively for our customers and society, and shape the clean, market-oriented power system of the future.