Investigating the risk of lightning’s pressure  blast wave

Blumenthal, Ryan; West, Nicholas J.

doi:10.17159/sajs.2015/20140187

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“…However, considering the five common electrical mechanisms of injury is the most useful for prevention and lightning safety education [5,45]. To complicate further, these can be combined, and blunt or concussive trauma/barotrauma may be overlaid on any of the five [5,45,68]. Figure 7 shows the relative distribution of these mechanisms in developed countries.…”

Section: Mechanisms Of Lightning Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mitigating the Hazard of Lightning Injury and Death across Africa

Cooper¹,

Holle²,

Tushemereirwe³

2020

Public Health in Developing Countries - Challenges and Opportunities

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Lightning injuries, deaths, and the economic consequences of lightning damage to property and infrastructure continue to be a significant public health challenge and economic development issue in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa. This chapter will discuss the scope of the hazard, known risk factors including common cultural beliefs that inhibit public education, existing data sources, medical effects and long-term disability, lightning formation and detection, injury mechanisms, existing lightning safety programs and their challenges, and the work being done to decrease injuries, death, and property damage from lightning in Africa by the African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network (ACLENet).

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Section: Mechanisms Of Lightning Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(©MACooper). barotrauma in his dissertation and likened it to being near a 5 kg of TNT blast [68]. Barotrauma is independent of the other electrical mechanisms of injury but may potentially overlay any of them [5,39,68].…”

Section: Figurementioning

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Mitigating the Hazard of Lightning Injury and Death across Africa

Cooper¹,

Holle²,

Tushemereirwe³

2020

Public Health in Developing Countries - Challenges and Opportunities

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“…One researcher has labeled this as the sixth mechanism of lightning injury and baptized the effect as electromagnetic blasting [18,50]. The researchers of the above work suggest classifying the effect as a primary lightning injury mechanism.…”

Section: Proximity To the Strike And Barotraumamentioning

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Lightning Related Human Risks and Risk Management

Gomes¹

2017

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Abstract:A comprehensive account of lightning related hazards to human beings, both at general locations and at work place has been given. The injury mechanisms are analyzed from both engineering and medical perspectives with the view of determining the factors to be considered in risk assessment for minimizing adverse impacts of lightning from both direct and indirect effects. The paper provides practical approaches in evaluating the degree of risk of lightning related injury to humans at nearly any given location. The paper highlights many dependent and independent parameters in determining safety assessment schemes against lightning-related human hazard. It also emphasizes the need for development of human safety guidelines in addition to established lightning protection standards that focus on property and services. While most risk index parameters are valid globally, in some cases, there may be special regional or local factors that should be considered.

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“…Environ Risk Assess Remediat. 2017;1(3): [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] prominent feature in positive lightning although it has been observed in negative lightning as well [51][52][53][54]. From research done in several countries, continuing current plays a significant role in igniting forest fires [55,56].…”

Section: Lightning Characteristicsmentioning

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“…One researcher has labeled this as the sixth mechanism of lightning injury and baptized the effect as electromagnetic blasting [14,52]. The researchers of the above work suggest classifying the effect as a primary lightning injury mechanism.…”

Section: Proximity To the Strike And Barotraumamentioning

confidence: 99%

Lightning related human risks.

Gomes¹

2017

Environ Risk Assess Remediat

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This paper provides a comprehensive account of lightning related hazards to human beings both at general locations and at work. The injury mechanisms are analyzed from both engineering and medical perspectives with the view of determining the factors to be considered in risk assessment for minimizing adverse impacts of lightning from both direct and indirect effects. The paper provides practical approaches in evaluating the degree of risk of lightning related injury to humans at nearly any given location. The paper highlights many dependent and independent parameters in determining safety assessment schemes against lightning-related human hazard. It also emphasizes the need for development of human safety guidelines in addition to established lightning protection standards that focus on property and services. While most risk index parameters are valid globally, in some cases, there may be special regional or local factors that should be considered. AbstractLightning related human risks.

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Investigating the risk of lightning’s pressure blast wave

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Mitigating the Hazard of Lightning Injury and Death across Africa

Mitigating the Hazard of Lightning Injury and Death across Africa

Lightning Related Human Risks and Risk Management

Lightning related human risks.

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