[Mike Hughes]

Hi Craig, on solar farm construction sites we ask our site managers to subscribe to Metservice weather warnings for the area and also use the My Lightning Tracker & Alerts app by JRustonApps B.V. – and make sure they enable notifications. This app has a map indicating the spread of lightning in the area which can be used to see when it may ease. Apart from that we just say “If lightning is close, work should stop and people should take cover in vehicles or buildings until the risk has passed”.

[Stephen Small]

Hi Craig

Our Emergency Preparedness manual states the following:

“Minimize use of tele-poles, Hiabs and EWPs if Lightning is approaching. Cease work until Lightning
has passed. Take shelter away from overhead conductors, tall structures, and trees.

We don’t have a set stand down period as it depends on the duration of the storm (longest one in last 5 years took 6 hours to transit our network).