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Additional Safety Recommendations
- Keep a safe distance from tall objects, such as trees, hilltops, and telephone poles.
- Avoid projecting above the surrounding landscape. Seek shelter in low lying areas such as valleys, ditches, and depressions.
- Stay away from water. Lightning can strike the water and travel some distance from its point of contact.
- Stay away from objects that conduct electricity, such as tractors, golf carts, golf clubs, metal fences, and lawnmowers.
- Avoid being the highest point in an open area. Swinging a golf club or holding an umbrella can make you the tallest object and a target for lightning.
- In a forest, seek shelter in a low-lying area under a thick growth of small trees or bushes.
- Keep alert for flash floods, sometimes caused by heavy rainfall, if seeking shelter in a ditch or low lying area.
- If caught in a level field far from shelter and you feel your hair stand on end, lightning may be about to hit you. Kneel on the ground immediately, with feet together, place your hands on your knees and bend forward. Don't lie flat.
- If you are in a group in the open, spread out, keeping people several yards apart.
- Avoid elevated ground, golf carts, mowers, cell phones, radios.
Role of the Pro Shop & General Manager
- Issue warnings to any Member or Guest who fail to follow the Club's Lightning Safety Policy and Club Employee safety requests
- Post the Club's 'Lightning Safety Policy' throughout the clubhouse
- Comply with 'Duty to Warn' issues and avoid a negligent posture
REMEMBER - LIGHTNING INCIDENTS MAY NOT BE PREVENTABLE, BUT A BEST EFFORT DEFENSE IS A PRUDENT THING TO DO
EDUCATION ABOUT THE LIGHTNING HAZARD IS EVERYONE'S JOB
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Lightning is a severe hazard that must be viewed seriously.
The Sarnia Golf and Curling Club and our employees are not responsible for the safety of any golfer on the course and it is therefore your responsibility to remove yourself from any situation which you deem dangerous.
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