Lightning Guidance for outdoor events

Its important that our industry continues to recognise and develop robust ways to keep our operatives safe, in an industry where heights, electrical risk and physical risk from the Lightning itself are all obvious daily considerations this can never be underestimated.

In this section we assemble a series of information that we hope will be useful to persons both within and external to our industry.

With strike rate and intensity increasing annually it is likely the prevalence of lightning strikes having an effect on events and persons will increase too, this guide offers some simple, potentially lifesaving  precautions organisers and you can take yourself: https://www.lightning.gg/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Lightning_Guidance_for_Outdoor_Events.pdf