Lightning kills more people than hail, wind, rain, and tornadoes combined, making lightning an important safety consideration. This fact is especially true for people who make a living working outdoors (for example, construction workers, road crew, farm workers, etc.)
A lightning strike happens f…
Thunderstorm comes from rain-bearing clouds that also produce lightning and therefore are dangerous and extremely destructive.
Lightning is an occupational hazard that’s often overlooked, but it shouldn’t be because it can severely injure or even kills workers, particularly if they are working at…
Lightning on a healthcare facility can be catastrophic. It can knock out, disable or even destroy electronic equipment essential to a health care facility's day to day operations. Life support, imaging, safety, security and communication systems depend on digital circuits that cannot withstand light…
There’s little argument that lightning poses an enormous threat to telecommunication, radio and TV towers.
Lightning rod endeavors to attract lightning in order to divert lightning energy to earth. Their main purpose is to attract lightning before it reaches any other object and allow the curren…
Each year lightning causes dozens of death, thousands of fire, and billions of dollars in property damage. Most lightning damage occurs during the summer months. However, lightning can occur year round, so when working outdoors, it's important to pay attention to the weather and take appropriate act…
Measures to prevent lightning strikes on industries have never been more sophisticated.
The days of relying on conventional lightning rod protection from the fire are all but over. Complex operations are now been deployed with advanced options to minimize damage and limit downtime from a lightnin…
It is estimated that almost one third of all U.S. businesses will suffer lightning damage at some point. The insurance industry experiences an average of $15 billion in losses annually due to lightning-related damage.
Industries across the world are leaning more on science and automation every da…
With the ever-changing climate and rise in global temperature, we can expect to see an increase in thunderstorms which will equate to more lightning strikes. Experts say that for every 1C rise in global temperature, the frequency of lightning strikes increases by 12 percent.
Technology is making …
Lightning is an extremely common weather phenomena and it is very unpredictably. It can even strike outside the heaviest rainfall area.
As many miners can attest, thunderstorm can often strike with little or no warning, especially during the warmer months of the year. And the lightning strikes ac…
Lightning is very unpredictable. If a lightning strike is detected 10 miles away, then the next strike can be at your location. So when do you cease work? Where do you go? How long should work be suspended?
People who work with or near explosive or conductive materials, in open spaces or near tal…
Imagine a situation where the fire, ambulance, and police resources are compromised because the communication network has gone off line due to a lightning strike. A highly risky situation. Thus it has become very imperative for the wireless industry to consider lightning protection system, assessmen…
Lightning is the most powerful display of electrostatics in nature. We all like to crowd around windows to watch the lightning display in the sky, standing in awe of the power of static discharge. Indeed, a lightning strike is a beautiful sight to see, but behold it can also cause an equally devasta…
Many commercial and residential building are at a risk of lightning damage. Personal injury, loss to business and equipments is a huge expense for any company or individual to bear. Trust a lightning protection system with Dissipated Array System (DAS) technology to greatly reduce this threat on you…
Lightning is an inevitable natural phenomenon. The magnitude of one lightning strike is significant amount of energy and can cause major loss of life and destruction of property. The site, elevation, and formation of a structure plays an important role in ascertaining if a lightning protection syste…