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  1. Safe Against Lightning Worldwide
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  3. Meet SALWO

SALWO is a worldwide, non-profit, educational, non-profit foundation under the patronage
of Aplicaciones Tecnológicas.

SALWO was created to address the need for education and training in individual behaviour towards thunderstorm hazards:

  • Every year there are more than 19,500 deaths and more than 240,000 injuries due to lightning worldwide.
  • There is little or no official, accurate and verified information available to the public on the need for lightning protection and personal measures to be taken during thunderstorms.
19500

Caused by lightning strikes

Deaths

240000

Caused by lightning strikes

Injuries

Knowing what to do during thunderstorms saves lives

But there is a need for proper education on the standards of individual behaviour to be followed.

SALWO provides training and information to people with the aim of saving lives and minimising accidents caused by individual misbehaviour during thunderstorms.

Mission

SALWO’s mission is to train and inform people on a disinterested basis in order to prevent and minimise accidents resulting from incorrect behaviour during thunderstorms.

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01Training

SALWO offers free digital resources to public and private institutions as well as education professionals. In addition, it provides tailor-made training where lightning risks pose a real danger to the population. With these resources, SALWO aims to educate the population, especially in more susceptible and vulnerable environments.

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02Exposure

At SALWO, we spread information about the dangers of thunderstorms, as well as teach individual safe behaviour practices that reduce the risk of injury and primary care measures for those who are affected by lightning strikes. Institutions committed to public awareness and education share our responsibility in disseminating knowledge of appropriate personal behaviour to protect against lightning.

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03Saving lives

SALWO’s mission is life-saving training through education: understanding the phenomenon of lightning enables people to take individual preventive measures and protect themselves.

The joint commitment of the institutions and SALWO towards spreading individual safety rules avoids lethal accidents.