BS EN 62305 Protection against lightning

BS EN 62305-1
Publication Date 30 June 2011
Protection against lightning. General principles

This part of BS EN 62305 provides general principles to be followed for protection of structures against lightning, including their installations and contents, as well as persons.

The following cases are outside the scope of this standard:
Railway systems
Vehicles, ships, aircraft, offshore installations
Underground high pressure pipelines
Pipe, power and telecommunication lines placed outside the structure

BS EN 62305-2
Publication Date 29 September 2006
Protection against lightning. Risk management

Its purpose is to provide a procedure for the evaluation of such a risk. Once an upper tolerable limit for the risk has been selected, this procedure allows the selection of appropriate protection measures to be adopted to reduce the risk to or below the tolerable limit.

BS EN 62305-3
Publication Date 30 June 2011
Protection against lightning. Physical damage to structures and life hazard

This part of EN 62305 provides the requirements for protection of a structure against physical damage by means of a lightning protection system (LPS), and for protection against injury to living beings due to touch and step voltages in the vicinity of an LPS.

This standard is applicable to:
- Design, installation, inspection and maintenance of an LPS for structures without limitation of their height
- Establishment of measures for protection against injury to living beings due to touch and step voltages.

BS EN 62305-4
Publication Date 30 June 2011
Protection against lightning. Electrical and electronic systems within structures

This part of BS EN 62305 provides information for the design, installation, inspection, maintenance and testing of electrical and electronic system protection (SPM) to reduce the risk of permanent failures due to lightning electromagnetic impulse (LEMP) within a structure.

This standard provides guidelines for cooperation between the designer of the electrical and electronic system, and the designer of the protection measures, in an attempt to achieve optimum protection effectiveness.

This standard does not deal with detailed design of the electrical and electronic systems themselves.

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