Publications

This paper arose from the question, 'Does wearing leather shoes or sleeping on a pad or raised bed decrease the changes or severity of lightning injury?' ACLENet often receives this question from farmers, teachers, and parents at lightning safety educational seminars we give in Uganda. While one would never recommend 'partial measures' such as these in developed countries where 'lighting safe areas' are usually within a few feet or anyone at risk, we sought to find out if lightning injury could be modified in developing countries where there is very little most people can do to decrease their risk of injury. The author, Dr Andrews, is a unique individual with qualifications both as a physician and as an electrical engineer, having done his dissertation on lightning and lightning injury several decades ago.

Paper from 2021 Brazil conference on lightning safety - SAFETY MEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AGAINST ATMOSPHERIC DISCHARGE - ACCIDENT STATISTICS AND PROPOSAL TO CREATE A SPECIFIC ORGANIZATION FOR PROTECTION AGAINST ATMOSPHERIC DISCHARGE

Poster presented at 9th Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, American Meteorological Society, 6-11 January, 2019.