At United REMC, Safety is our PRIORITY.
Our primary service is providing electricity to our consumers. Electricity must be respected and knowlege is key.
All employees are trained to do their jobs with employee and public safety in mind—always. Safety is communicated to school children and adults alike with various programs and publications.
 Employees observe power lines for hazards daily. Lines along private right-of-way are inspected annually as well. We trim trees near power lines to prevent branches from falling on power lines causing not only outages, but the risk of fallen power lines creating a dangerous situation.
Safety information is presented in the Electric Consumer, our monthly publication mailed to consumers.
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Call Before You DIG!
1-800-382-5544
Avoid a dangerous and costly situation.
If you’re doing any digging near where a power line may be buried, call FIRST. Many times consumers don’t know where a line may be buried. The best practice is to call and have it located to remove all doubt.
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United offers field trips to school kids fifth grade and older, teaching them basics about electricity and how to handle certain situations. The trips include a video, safety demonstration, a tour of our equipment yard, a pole climbing and equipment safety presentation by linemen, and a free lunch. In addition we offer safety talks for younger students upon request at schools throughout our service territory.
United likewise has people on staff ready to answer questions on proper electrical hookups for service. Our line crews must undergo over 8,000 hours of basic training to become journeymen linemen. And safety meetings are held monthly and are open to all employees.
Various publications – all free for the asking – are available dealing with specific topics. They include, but are not limited to: Farm safety, establishing a family disaster plan, safe living in manufactured housing, emergency preparedness, surge protection, electrical safety around the home, and more.
Safe Electricity
Safe Electricity is a multi-media public awareness program designed to compliment the existing safety-education activities of utilities and educators. Safe Electricity provides life-saving information through many venues, including radio and television public services announcements, news releases and articles and its comprehensive web site. Safe Electricity has received national recognition for the quality and scope it its programs and services.
Safe Electricity was founded in 2001 by the Illinois Electric Council, a not-for-profit educational organization of electric utilities, the University of Illinois, and other organizations dedicated to promoting electrical safety and efficiency.
Safe Electricity can be found on Internet at www.safeelectricity.org, or you can find the site on United’s Link Page as well.
The Safe Electricity website is full of extremely good and timely information on electrical safety, as well as many other related topics.
United consumers each month receive the Electric Consumer, published by our statewide association and mailed to each member. This award-winning publication contains several pages in each edition devoted strictly to news about United REMC. On those pages you will find information about the utility, new programs, safety, any vital information directed specifically to our members. The newspaper also contains articles related to the appropriate season, safety and energy issues, and enjoyable feature stories as well.
Other publications are available from United on topics ranging from home energy efficiency, heat pumps, electromagnetic fields, and more.
At United, we don’t just preach safety, we practice it as well.
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