In September 2008 the new European standard BSEN 62305:2006 ‘Protection against Lightning’ superseded the previous British standard BS 6651:1999 ‘Protection of Structures against Lightning’.

One of the initial changes in BSEN is that a risk assessment* is required to determine what type/class of protection is needed to obtain a tolerable risk level which now includes for surge protection on incoming power, data, communications, etc supply lines for the building/structure in question.

* Ensure when calculating risk on specialist/bespoke software programmes the UK standard is selected

However, if the building/structure was fitted with a protection system prior to September 2008 you may wish to continue with a test, inspection and maintenance programme to the standard it was installed to until such time as it is mandatory or financially viable to upgrade to the current standard.

There are also other systems available which may be viable alternatives in certain circumstances and favoured by a few of our European colleagues which are not detailed in the current standard.

CJS Eastern Ltd provides a you a complete service, please select one of the options above or contact us for more information.