A lightning risk analysis provides a comprehensive understanding of the potential threat lightning poses to your specific location or structure.

This includes understanding the importance of maintaining your systems installed, but more importantly, as ISO 31000 (Risk Management) says, there is no final step in risk management.

The primary goal of a lightning risk analysis is to safeguard lives. By identifying the risk and implementing necessary safety measures, the likelihood of injury or fatality due to lightning strikes can be significantly reduced. This is particularly important in areas where outdoor activities are common where large groups of people gather.

Lightning strikes can cause extensive damage to buildings, electrical systems, and critical infrastructure. A lightning risk analysis helps to quantify situations or points of potential risk, an asset, process, or electrical system, allowing for the installation of specific integrated protection systems

Beyond the immediate physical damage, lightning strikes can lead to significant economic losses due to liability issues, downtime, loss of business, and costly repairs. Conducting a risk analysis and implementing preventive measures can help avoid such losses, ensuring business continuity and financial predictability.

In many regions, regulations require that high risk buildings and facilities in lightning prone areas implement lightning protection measures. A lightning risk analysis is the first step in quantifying where you stand in terms of best practice approach to safety, thereby helping to avoid legal penalties and reduce liability.

The process of conducting lightning awareness training enables those with the knowledge to observe, identify, quantify, and manage lightning risk while outdoors not just for themselves, but for those around them too. by, for example, raising the alarm when conditions start to reach critical levels. If more people know how to act before, during, and after a flash, risk is reduced, the world is a safer place.