Electrical supply and electrical safety of agricultural facilities: status and ways of improvement

Agricultural production, when fulfilling the tasks for providing food to the Russia's inhabitants in all life systems (industrial, social, housing, and others), uses extensively electricity, which satisfies daily needs. Due to a number of circumstances, the processes of using electricity are accompanied by electrotraumatism with severe and fatal outcomes. This situation contradicts the Russia's regulatory framework in terms of preserving health and life of employees. The prospects for the development of the agro-industrial complex until 2030 and subsequent years provide for the increasing the consumption of electric power by an average of 2–3 % per year. Subject as provided, measures to prevent electric shocks to employees and consumers of electricity should be improved. Regulatory, engineering, scientific, personnel and other areas of highly effective prevention of electrical injuries are of interest in this area. The article notes that a number of measures have been implemented on the first of these areas. In terms of engineering and technical nature, the article presents a number of author's innovative developments that ensure the exclusion of the possibility of electric shocks during their implementation in electrified agricultural production technologies.