OREANDA-NEWS. The joint program of Rosatomstroy and Raytheon is aimed at developing safe behavior culture among schoolchildren. This is a very important problem: in the modern world children are constantly faced with situations requiring practical knowledge of safety rules.

In Sosnovoborsk Rosatomstroy and Raytheon told the 3rd and 4th form pupils of High School № 2 how to prevent accidents at home, at school and in the street, how to correctly use electricity, what to do in case of fire. The children were really happy to watch an animated film about Thermal Power Plant. They asked to show it again and again and then began to actively discuss what they had seen and to ask lots of questions.

After the debates the children went on an excursion to a construction site where Rosatomstroy and Raytheon experts demonstrated on-site safety technique. The children learned why constructors need safety equipment when working at high altitude, why they wear helmets, what consequences misuse of detonating cord may have.

Almost each family in Sosnovoborsk has a member engaged in construction or power engineering, so, the excursion has shown the children what hard and responsible professions their parents have.

“The children were really impressed: they have seen with their own eyes what they have read in books only. The emergency situations staged by the experts on the site have shown them how important it is to observe safety rules,” says one of the teachers.

At the end of the day, the children presented their “safety” posters to an independent jury: the mayor of Sosnovoborsk Sergey Ponomaev, representatives of the US Department of Energy, Rosatomstroy and Raytheon.

The key evaluation criteria were deep insight into the topic, artistic merit and accuracy. The best posters will be exhibited in the Krasnoyarsk and Moscow offices of Rosatomstroy and in the Moscow and Washington offices of Raytheon. The 12 best posters will be compiled into Rosatomstroy and Raytheon calendars.

The winners were presented with CD-players, rucksacks and e-games.

This is not the last joint program of the companies: they are firmly committed to continue cultivating safety culture and ecological responsibility among children and strengthening intra-family ties.