Don't Use Utility Poles To Post Signs, Ribbons and Banners

Posting signs, hanging banners or tying ribbons and balloons onto utility poles can endanger utility workers and often is a violation of local ordinances forbidding placement of anything on poles. Help protect those who work to provide electrical service and other utilities. Remember that anything on a pole can cause power line workers, telecommunications utility personnel and other workers to slip. The clamped, safety boots worn by line workers to climb poles are especially vulnerable to becoming snagged and caught on staples and nails embedded in poles. Foreign objects can also tear utility workers’ clothing or injure workers despite the safety gear they wear to avoid contact with rough surfaces. Such practices endanger more than those who keep the lights on and those who work on cable and telecommunications lines. The paraphernalia on the poles becomes a public safety hazard by distracting people as they drive, a safety hazard for the young and old alike as they walk. Please help utility workers to work safely and refrain from hanging objects to utility poles!