Risk assessment in the design of lightning protection systems of buildings and structures

The possibility of using risk assessment in lightning protection for the purposes of ensuring fire safety of buildings and structures is considered. Examples of limited flexibility of application of existing regulatory requirements for lightning protection of facilities are shown. The need to introduce modern methods of risk assessment in the design of lightning protection systems is noted. Analysis and description of the methodology for determining the individual components of the risk of death of people with a direct lightning strike into an object and/or the occurrence of a fire (explosion) is performed. The main advantages and disadvantages of the existing risk assessment method and ways of its improvement are given.