AGRICULTURE AND ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

Since 1964, the bodies responsible for the transport and distribution of electrical energy (RTE and ERDF) and the agricultural profession ( Chambers of Agriculture France and FNSEA ) maintain a partnership which is reflected in various memoranda of agreement, particularly for the compensation of damage related to electricity networks.

A joint national commission bringing together the APCA, the FNSEA, RTE and ERDF was set up to monitor the proper implementation of the protocols and other issues relating to the relations between the agricultural world and the electricity transmission and distribution networks.

A power line on my land, how?

When an electricity network project crosses an agricultural parcel, an easement agreement is established for the passage of a power line on parcels belonging to an owner and a given municipality. A payment agreement signed with the operator is associated with this agreement.

Terms of work

While rehabilitation and security works on the lines of the electricity transmission network are increasing, RTE, APCA and FNSEA have found it useful to clarify the work arrangements around the existing lines of the RTE network. .

In order to ensure the maintenance and development of overhead and underground electricity lines , RTE carries out annual vegetation cutting (pruning) to avoid line incidents, painting on pylons, repairs or repairs. equipment changes, line visits …

To prevent the risks associated with the necessary presence of these networks and their damage, the Ministry of Sustainable Development set up in July 2012:

  • one-stop computer networks to identify all the operators present in a given geographical area
  • a new mandatory procedure for reporting work near these networks

Safety rules near an electrical work

  • Respect the safety distances

Always respect a distance of 5 meters between the power line and the person or the machine or the tool or the branch or the top of the tree as part of pruning or slaughtering

  • Avoid maneuvering alone

Under the lines with high-altitude machines, to be guided by a third person who will warn in case of proximity to the power line

  • Keep in mind that the power line is not fixed

Depending on the meteorological conditions (wind, heat, frost) and energy passing through the power line (cable expansion), the position of the power line can change at any time

  • Means of prevention

For any intervention or work under a power line, contact ERDF / RTE

How to deal with a decrease in the family workforce?

Effectiveness at work, human relations, sense of profession

A national day was organized on January 15, 2015 by the Chambers of Agriculture for:

  • discover answers work with the example of the region Center
  • identify the success factor of the regional organization
  • to raise awareness and encourage departmental and regional dynamics on the theme of work.

What are the labor issues for farmers and Chambers of Agriculture?

Roger Le Guen , sociologist and teacher-researcher at the Angers School of Agriculture, presents:

  • technical, economic and social developments that have important consequences in terms of work
  • how, under these conditions, accompany farmers on the job?

How to accompany farmers on the job?

The labor issue is an old concern for farmers and ranchers . However, it is becoming more significant with the recent technical, economic and social evolutions, and more particularly in breeding.

For this reason, the Chambers of Agriculture of the Center wished to integrate it as a fundamental issue in their Regional Agricultural Development Programs (PRDA).

Bertrand Bluet from the Indre Chamber of Agriculture and Livestock Work Coordinator for the PRDAdescribed this program and some examples of actions taken.

Get a better understanding of GEHODES Work

The Chambers of Agriculture of the Center have for several years set up an action and teams on Labor, action GEHODES . 

The objectives of this round table are to share this regional action: its organization, its method of financing, its interests and its limits. 

This presentation of the GEHODES action is intended to demonstrate by example that the actions on the Work and a regional structuring on the subject are possible.

Why take action on human resources?

Edouard Guibert , farmer and member of the Chamber of Agriculture of Indre-et-Loire, recalls the action of the Chambers of Agriculture on labor, the reasons that led him to bring this type of file and to make appeal to the Chamber of Agriculture for its exploitation.

What regional project around human resources?

Frantz Caron , Head of the Men and Development Department of the Chamber of Agriculture of Cher and facilitator of the GEHODES regional action, explains what the GEHODES action is and the regional organization chosen.