Developed simplification of the risk assessment

Abstract

The IEC 62305, which was published 10 years ago, has fundamentally changed the structure of planning lightning protection [1]. The method determined in the standard - which requires a detailed risk assessment for each and every structure - has made the standard user's task more difficult due to the vast amount of parameters. Meantime many criticism, application examples and explanations of the risk assessment were published [2], [3], [4], [5]. We have elaborated a developed simplified risk assessment process based on the standard, which substantially facilitates the determination of the needed level of protection in most cases.