As the UK braces for severe storms following the recent spell of intense heat, facility managers face heightened risks from lightning strikes. With increasingly unpredictable weather patterns becoming the norm, protecting your buildings and infrastructure has never been more crucial.
Understanding lightning strike counters
A Lightning Strike Counter is a sophisticated digital device that can be integrated into most existing lightning protection systems. This innovative technology provides facility managers with crucial data definitively showing whether their protection system has been activated during a storm event.
The value of this information cannot be overstated. When lightning strikes, the immediate question isn’t just whether your building is safe, but whether your protection system performed as designed and what maintenance may now be required.
Post-strike protocol: essential testing and inspection
Here’s what many facility managers don’t realise: when your lightning protection system successfully protects your building from a strike, the job isn’t finished. Under BS EN 62305 standard, any system that has taken a lightning strike requires a urgent and comprehensive testing and inspection to ensure continued effectiveness.
This isn’t merely regulatory compliance – it’s about maintaining the integrity of your protection system for future weather events. A lightning protection system that has done its job once needs professional assessment to confirm it’s ready to protect your facility again.
Why professional maintenance matters
As extreme weather becomes increasingly common across the UK, the importance of properly maintained lightning protection cannot be ignored. PTSG, recognised as the UK’s leading specialist in lightning protection maintenance, offers the expertise needed to keep your systems operating at peak performance.
“Many facility managers assume that if their building survives a lightning strike, their protection system is working perfectly,” explains Cara Batey from PTSG’s Lightning Protection team. “Without proper post-strike testing, you could be left vulnerable during the next storm event. Lightning Strike Counters eliminate the guesswork, they provide definitive evidence of system activation and help us determine the appropriate maintenance response.”
The integration of Lightning Strike Counters into your existing protection infrastructure represents a proactive approach to facility management providing the data you need to make informed maintenance decisions and ensure continuous protection.
Taking action
For facility managers looking to enhance their lightning protection systems with strike counter technology, or those needing post-strike inspection services, professional consultation is essential.
PTSG’s lightning protection specialists can provide detailed quotations for system upgrades and maintenance services. Contact the team at [email protected] to discuss how Lightning Strike Counter technology can strengthen your facility’s weather resilience.
In an era of unprecedented weather patterns, the question isn’t whether severe storms will impact your area, it’s whether your facility will be properly protected when they do.
