Home & Business Lightning Detection Systems
Protect your home & your business and know when lighting is coming.
South African homes and businesses sustain milllions of Rands of damages every year due to lightning strikes. If you have a proper lightning detection warning system you will know when its time to shut down and unplug your valuable electronic devices and also when to get you, your children or staff to safety.
South Africa is well known for electrical storms and lightning. However beautiful this might be at times, it also presents a deadly and very real threat to those caught in the open.
According to the South African Weather Service, approximately 260 people are killed by lightning in South Africa each year.It’s not always possible to predict where and when lightning will strike, but here are some tips that will hopefully keep you, your family and possessions safe when the inevitable lightning activity happens.
Almost all insurance-related queries received by the South African Weather Service (SAWS) are lightning related.
Lightning-related deaths in South Africa account for an average of between 1.5 and 8.8 per million of the population, which is said to be about four times higher than the global average. Insurance claims in South Africa as a result of lightning amount to more than R500 million per year.