Simplified risk assessment of lightning protection

The risk assessment in IEC 62305 international lightning protection standard is very detailed, it requires deep analysis for every possible condition. After 8 years the standard was published, the feedbacks of the engineers show that the collection of all the data requires much time. Furthermore, in most cases these data are not available. For this reason, the engineers need to estimate the missing parameters, generally in a conservative way. Of course, the effect of these adjustments appears in the results of the risk assessment as well, which results more severe measures, as it would be necessary. To handle the problems mentioned above, we have elaborated a simplified risk assessment process.