Safety
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Safety
Electricity is a powerful resource with many benefits, but also with many
dangers. MPS has a responsibility to help educate our customers about
electric safety. As a locally-owned, non-profit utility, we seek to be
involved in the community we serve. Our electric safety programs meet those
goals.
Play it safe With Electricity
MPS' original partnership with the schools in 1988 resulted in an electrical
safety program that reaches more than 2,000 kindergarten through third grade
students in all public and private schools each year. Taking a bunch of
"live wires" and teaching them about electrical safety could be a
daunting challenge, but teachers consistently give the program an
"A".
McGruff Truck Program
MPS began the McGruff Truck program to help keep children and others safe in
the community. The familiar McGruff crime dog appears on utility vehicles as
a sign to anyone in trouble that MPS workers can radio for help if needed.
Children in kindergarten through grade six, along with their parents, receive
information about McGruff Truck. During electrical safety presentations,
children learn how to recognize McGruff and wave down a utility vehicle if
they need help. This program is a cooperative effort with the Moorhead Police
Department and the Clay County Licensed Childcare Association.
Call Before You Dig: 1-800-252-1166
Anyone digging in Minnesota must call before digging. The person who is doing
the work is responsible for calling Gopher State One Call (GSOC). If the
owner contracts with a professional excavator to do the excavation then the
professional excavator is responsible for calling GSOC.
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