It is good if all communications in the house are working properly. However, there are often cases when a breakdown occurs on the power line or gas (water) pipe. Recently, natural disasters have also become frequent, which cause harm not only to communications, but also to people. In order to eliminate all the malfunctions, their consequences, as well as save the lives of people, emergency services are needed. Among them are gas, rescue, as well as organizations for the repair of water supply and gas lines.
What is an emergency service and what functions does it perform?
To begin with, let's deal with the concept itself. Emergency services are special units that are constantly ready to go to the place of a breakdown or emergency and to eliminate it. Naturally, all vehicles and equipment of these teams must be operational 24 hours a day.
The services presented must perform the following tasks:
- Monitor serviced facilities for timely detection of breakdowns or malfunctions.
- Quickly respond to the appeal of citizens. That is, the repair team must immediately go to the call, find the cause of the breakdown and eliminate it.
- Perform their duties to save the life and health of a person, his property, as well as the elimination of emergency situations and their consequences.
Naturally, each service has a list of more specific responsibilities.
Who can work in a team?
All employees must be qualified and have appropriate theoretical and practical training. The moral qualities of workers are very important. For example, they should try in any case to provide the greatest possible assistance.
And gas workers, and electricians, and rescuers should have a certain specialized education. Important is the professional rank of the employee. Each employee should know that he is responsible for the life and health of people, so he must be responsible for his duties.
Emergency services are completed by persons over 18 years of age. An employment contract is concluded with them, which sets out their duties, rights, wages and other conditions. Preference is given to people with high moral qualities, persistent psyche, the ability to act effectively in an emergency, as well as with good physical data. For example, in order to become a lifeguard, it is necessary for a psychologist and psychiatrist to confirm that a person is fit for such a service.
Features of the work of professional electricians
So, now we will examine in more detail the activities of each service individually. If you can replace a light bulb, that's good. However, not everyone knows how and has the right to independently try to lay new wiring or eliminate a malfunction on the central line. This is done by the emergency power network service. Qualified professionals who have passed certification and have practical experience work here.
The presented service performs the following functions:
- at any time, day or night, goes to emergency calls in order to eliminate any malfunctions on the central line or in the home wiring;
- repair equipment or replace cables in private homes, apartments or industrial facilities;
- sets protective equipment: sensors, stabilizers, generators;
- checks the performance of the power line, performs its full or partial diagnostics;
- collects and mounts shields; in addition, experts connect the overall electrical equipment (stoves for cooking, water heaters).
Features of the gas service
It should be noted that only those people who know the technology for conducting gas hazardous events can work in this organization. In addition, they should be able to use a gas mask and other means of protection.
Consider the main tasks that an emergency gas service should perform:
- Ensuring efficient and safe operation of highways and pipelines, as well as other equipment.
- Constant monitoring of the state of the parameters of the gas that enters the system.
- Immediate response to public circulation and equipment repair, elimination of leaks and other malfunctions.
- Installation of units operating on blue fuel, both in private residential premises and in industrial buildings.
What should the repair team be equipped with?
In order for the work to be done efficiently, employees must have the following devices:
- explosion-proof lamps, as well as other personal protective equipment;
- manometers;
- devices for determining the level of gas contamination of a room, industrial building or other structure;
- tools for working with pipes, also the most common spare parts with which you can carry out repairs;
- fire extinguishers;
- insulation and lubricants.
All work carried out by emergency services is necessarily recorded in the protocols. Technical documentation should be kept in archives for a certain time.
Features of the work and functions of the emergency water utility brigade
Very often, at industrial facilities, central highways, in private houses or apartments, breakthroughs of water pipes or blockages of the sewage system occur . If the damage is not significant, then you can deal with them yourself. However, there are times when emergency water utility service is required.
Specialists of the brigade perform such functions:
- Immediately respond to a call.
- They establish the cause of the breakdown and eliminate it: breakdown or rupture of the pipe, replacement of parts of the pipeline.
- Eliminate large blockages in sewer systems.
- They connect water supply to the building or turn it off.
- They carry out planned quality control of water supply for residential and non-residential premises.
The principles of the rescue team
This service performs a variety of types of work. However, the main purpose of its activities is to save the life and health of people in an emergency (explosion of residential and non-residential buildings, earthquakes, fires, floods and other disasters).
In their work, the employees of the presented service should be guided by the following principles:
- mandatory rescue activities;
- mercy, humanism and the priority of human life;
- ensuring the safety of employees and other people present during events;
- carrying out work with minimal harm to the environment.
Each employee of the team must know and clearly fulfill their duties.
The main functions of rescuers
The most important task that an emergency rescue service should perform is to directly participate in the liquidation of an emergency. If we consider the functions of the presented organization in more detail, then among them we can distinguish the following:
- constant control over potentially dangerous objects;
- emergency prevention and response;
- protection of the territory and citizens from the occurrence of any danger of anthropogenic or natural character;
- population training.
Everyone should know the emergency phone number. The only number for all organizations is 112. However, each service has its own telephone:
- firefighters - 101 (01);
- ambulance - 103 (03);
- police - 102 (02);
- gas service - 104 (04).
As for the numbers of electricians and water utility employees, they must be recognized in the city where you live, since they do not have a common telephone.