Prevention
• Renew your Hazardous Weather Safety Training
• Check the weather forecast before the activity
Mitigation
• Participants should seek shelter as soon as thunder is heard or seen.
• Tents are not a good shelter; a solid building or vehicles are.
• Participants need to wait 30 minutes after the last lightning strike/thunder before resuming normal activities.
• If no shelter is available; stay low and spread 100ft apart from each other.
Treatment
• In case anyone is struck by lightning, EMS must be called immediately even if no apparent burning marks are visible.
Additional resources
• https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/06/23/dispelling-nine-myths-lightning-safety/
• https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/06/23/dispelling-nine-myths-lightning-safety/
• Guide to Safe Scouting: https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/gss/toc/
• Weather-Related Safety: https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/safety-moments/weather-related-safety/
