White Paper: Best Practices for Lightning Protection

Lightning strikes present a serious threat to critical facilities, leading to costly downtime, hazardous working conditions, and potentially irreversible damage to operations and stakeholder relationships. Effective lightning protection requires proactive measures that go beyond addressing direct strikes to also mitigate the broader range of lightning-related hazards, including induced surges and ground potential rise related to a non – direct strike that could occur up to one mile away.

In this white paper, we cover the two key approaches to Lightning Defense, including Lightning Protection and Lightning Avoidance (such as Charge Transfer technologies). We examine the nature of lightning-related risks, strategies for mitigating these threats, and the best practices for designing, installing, and maintaining a comprehensive and effective Lightning Defense system.

Since 1971, Lightning Eliminators & Consultants (LEC) has been equipping customers to Keep You Running Through the Storm. Today, LEC’s solutions are in place around the globe to protect the critical operations and structures of some of the world’s most recognized companies, including Federal Express, UPS, CSX Railroad, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Telluride Ski Resort, and thousands more.