5 steps must be done to ensure an efficient lightning protection. In this context, the Engineering department of France Paratonnerres can follow you up during each step:
- Lightning Risk Analysis (ARF): Assessment of the elements to be protected.
- Technical Study: (ET): detailed preventive measures and protection devices to implement.
- Material supply: Direct and indirect lightning protection.
- Installation: installation of the material, in conformity with the technical study, and with qualified and partners network
- Periodical maintenance: Initial verification by a third party, maintenance and annual verification of the installed protections.
In France, the installations classified for environment called “ICPE” in France are industrial, tertiary or agricultural (production factory, water treatment plant, workshops, storage buildings, hospitals…) likely to present some risks or to generate pollution or damages for neighbourhood health, patrimony, and environment. The person in charge of a classified site must implement the lightning risk analysis (according to NFC 17-102 and EN 62305-2) for its site, if it is required in one of the sections designated in Ministerial order of July 19th 2011.
Ministerial orders for public buildings (like places of worship, alimentary products storage, fertilizer plants, sorting centres, nuclear installations, covered warehouses for combustible material, pyrotechnic structures, poultring farms, hotels, restaurants and altitude shelters) also defines regulatory framework for the verification and the lightning protection installation.