Friendly Reminder on Summer Electrical Safety for Poultry Farms
Guangzhou Guangxing Group | June 6, 2026
// Friendly Reminder - NOTICE //
During the hot summer months, electricity consumption enters its peak period, and both electrical equipment and power grids are in a high-risk period for failures. To ensure the safe production of poultry farms, please take adequate measures to prevent electrical accidents:
1. Ensure Sufficient Power Supply
Transformers must have sufficient capacity to operate equipment (especially ventilation systems). If the transformer capacity is inadequate, promptly increase the transformer capacity or stagger the operation of non-essential loads (such as manure removal). Overloading transformers will cause reduced output voltage, increasing the risk of failure for both electrical equipment and the transformer itself.
2. Ensure Power Supply Line Safety
Inspect all on-farm power supply lines and eliminate safety hazards. Ensure that the ventilation system in each poultry house has a backup power source and a backup main circuit. That is, if the ventilation system's power supply line fails, a backup line must be ready to switch in at any time to maintain ventilation system power supply.
3. Inspect Ventilation System Safety and Operation
Inspect all alarm systems to ensure they accurately issue alerts when the ventilation system in poultry houses malfunctions, enabling management personnel to respond promptly.
Conduct power-outage alarm tests on the in-house alarm systems to verify that batteries are charged. Replace all batteries that have not been changed for more than 3 years. Batteries less than 3 years old should be inspected for charge safety before continued use.
For those equipped with mobile phone alarm systems (including farm management systems and controllers with built-in mobile alarms), check the backup UPS power storage. If the UPS battery has not been replaced for more than 3 years, replace the battery. If less than 3 years, inspect for charge safety before continued use. Check whether the SIM card is in normal active status and whether the phone card has sufficient credit. Pay attention to the daily inspection messages sent by the phone.
Before going off duty each day, arrange for caretakers to conduct an alarm test. Specifically, before the caretakers leave in the afternoon, activate the alarm test button or create a fault condition (e.g., disconnect the pump protector QF in the ventilation window electrical box, or open an additional temperature probe on the controller). After hearing the alarm, restore the system to normal before leaving the poultry house.
(Note: Farms with alarm systems installed after the second half of 2012 have 2 sets of alarm systems. Please ensure both are inspected.) If the alarm system is not functioning properly, identify the cause and repair it before leaving the poultry house.
For farms without mobile phone alarm systems, arrange for someone to be on duty at night to prevent the situation where a fault occurs but goes undetected due to the alarm not being noticed. For farms with mobile phone alarms, responsible personnel must ensure their phones can receive messages and calls, and phones must not be set to silent mode or turned off during nighttime rest.
4. Prepare for Power Outages
Inspect the backup generator every week (start it up and run a test) to verify it is in proper working condition. Maintain an adequate fuel inventory based on local conditions.
5. Improve Safety Production Requirements
Based on the specific conditions of your farm, supplement and implement more comprehensive safety production requirements.
Friendly Reminder
Safety takes priority over everything. We hope all clients follow the above inspections and strengthen implementation to eliminate safety hazards, achieve genuine safe production, and strive for better production returns.
