Hot weather can have this scary result on your hand gel bottle 😱
A sanitising gel has become the handbag addition we probably wouldn’t really have given space to at the start of this year, but now we wouldn’t dare leave home without it.
It’s for this reason that occupational health and safety training specialists CE Safety say NHS workers have been asked to remove all of their alcohol-based sanitisers from their cars, in case the alcohol in them evaporates and emits flammable vapours – which apparently then could ignite in normal air conditions within the car.
“If it’s 25 degrees outside, the estimated vehicle interior air temperature can reach up to 50 degrees if left for a couple of hours. So it is no surprise to see pictures circulating showing severely damaged vehicles due to hand sanitiser bottles that had ignited inside a vehicle sitting in direct sunlight.”
If you’re thinking about switching to an alcohol-free formula, then that might not be the best solution as Which say you need at least 60 per cent alcohol content for hand sanitiser to work properly and kill any germs.
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