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BSA policy on Lightning Safety
The BSA Guide to Safe Scouting represents sound advise and BSA policy standards for maintaining a safe environment in all outdoor activities. Every leader should know these policies well before any outside activity.
What Scouts should know about Lightning
Jack Wright is a Scouter in the Cherokee Council of Tennessee and has been a strong advocate for safety. In this large web site he has teamed up with the USSSP to create an excellent resource for any Safety minded Scouter who wants to be safe outdoors.
National Lightning Safety Institute
National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) is a non-profit, non-product advocacy of lightning safety for both people and structures
Scouts-L Lightning Safety Summary
Bill Nelson has pulled together from a number of Scouters these timeless safety notes on Lightning Safety. This is a post from the Scouts-L archives.
Northeast Region Doc on Lightning Safety
The Northeast Region of the B,S,A, has on their website a wonderful MS Word Document gathered from several of their council summer camps that makes for a good camp policy on lightning safety
Scouting Magazine Article - March 2006
Wonderful article that was printed in Scouting Magazine in March of 2006 by Karen Berger
BSA Training - Safe Scout Outing
Safe Scouting can happen if you follow the Scout motto�Be Prepared. This unit of supplementary training will describe how to plan for and conduct a safe Scout outing.
A killer bolting out of the blue
News Article - When lightning strikes -- a random, capricious and far more likely occurrence than most people expect -- there's simply no good place to be outdoors.
Boating-Lightning Protection
Information from the University of Florida web site. Article about Boating & Lighning safety.
CampFish.Net on Scout Lighting Safety
According to the National Weather Service, there were 67 deaths in America last year caused by lightning strikes. Although the odds of you being struck are about 1 in 240,000, it is important to be aware of the proper safety precautions.
CityOutdoor Emergency Plan
This web site's home city uses this LIGHTNING SAFETY PLAN FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION EVENTS
Emergency Plans
Emergency Action Plan for Lightning Storms from the Lightning Safety Group's web site.
Fun Experiments
Try these fun, and safe, experiments using static electricty - from the Lightning Safety Group from the 1998 American Meteorological Society Conference on the Global Atmospherics, Inc web site.
Is BSA doing enough to keep kids safe?
Article in Outside Magazine critical of BSA safety issues including lightning safety.
Lightning - The Shocking Story
Index of the National Geographic Lightning web site.
Lightning a big issue at Philmont Ranch
Anyone who has been to Philmont knows how beautiful it is to watch the clouds roll in and watch a distant Thunderstorm. Unfortunately weather changes quickly and Mount Baldy is notorious for lightning strikes.
Lightning Primer
NASA's web site offers this primer on Lightning Detection From Space.
Lightning Quiz
Lightning Quiz from the National Geographic web site.
Lightning Words
National Geographic web page with a word game for kids to play. This could be fun at either a Den meeting or a Troop or Pack meeting.
Outdoor Personnel Emergency Plan
Scouters will want to read LIGHTNING SAFETY FOR THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE PROFESSIONAL from the Lightning Safety Group's web site.
Personal Lightning Safety Tips
Owners have given permission to re-print & distribute these tips - from the Lightning Safety Group from the 1998 American Meteorological Society Conference on the Global Atmospherics, Inc web site.
Scout organization faulted in lightning
News article on Scout death by lightning. The National Weather Service warned throughout the afternoon of severe weather in the Pocono Mountains where the 16-year-old and more than 300 other Boy Scouts attended a one-week camp.
Statistics on Lightning related injuries
Statistics from NOAA showing 35 YEARS OF LIGHTNING DEATHS & INJURIES - as found on the Global Atmospherics, Inc web site.
Stories of Lightning Strikes
Personal accounts of lightning strikes
Struck By Lightning
Pages of personal stories of lightning strike victims from the National Geographic web site.
Struckbylightning.org - Homepage
Over the last couple of years there have been many changes in the evolution of lightning safety, there have also been some well publicized accidents involving the Boy Scouts and other groups.
Swimming Emergency Plan
Plan for LIGHTNING SAFETY AT SWIMMING POOLS from the Lightning Safety Group.
Thunderstorms and Camping Safety
Wonderful article by Chuck Doswell, a Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorology and an Asst. Scoutmaster

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