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Lightning protection systems - What they do and don't do. A lightning protection system's only purpose is to ensure safety to a building and its occupants if lightning happens to hit it directly, a task accomplished by providing a good, safe path to ground for the lightning to follow.
A lightning rod and its associated grounding conductors provide protection because they divert the current from nonconducting parts of the structure. Grounding is the act of connecting a conductor, or exposed conductive parts of an installation, to the earth. The grounding protects personnel from stray currents that could leak to the metallic enclosures. A lightning rod and its associated grounding conductors provide protection because they divert the current from nonconducting parts of the structure.