This paper suggests adoption of a revised lightning safety design guideline which can be applied to contemporary environments. It is a prudent organizational policy to analyze facilities and operations so as to identify lightning vulnerability. Designs and operational means to deflect potential accidents should be developed. For the lightning hazard, safety should be a prevailing directive. 3.1 Physics of Lightning.
Lightning is the agency which maintains the earth's capacitive electrical balance.
Ground-based air terminators such as fences, trees, blades of grass, corners of buildings, people, lightning rods, power poles etc., etc. They may respond at breakdown voltage by forming upward Streamers. Lightning flashes to ground are the result. A series of return strokes follow. 3.2 Lightning effects.