When the experts you rely on require fact checking…
Today’s daily COVID update at work telling us not to leave alcohol hand gel in cars due to a fire risk.
To ignite Alcohol gel at this temperature requires a spark, otherwise you need temperatures of 350C to spontaneously combust!
That’s what I’ve sent back. Unless people are putting sparks to the actual liquid, it isn’t an issue.
They’ve just put out a blanket update telling us not to keep hand gel in cars otherwise there is a fire risk at these hot temperatures.
“I saw it on the news or a Fb post, so it had to be true…”
That’s what makes it worse… this came from the top!
Coming in about a month from a HQAC near you!
We had info come round to work from the HS2 project of a person who’d just applied handgel then got a static discharge while getting out of the vehicle igniting the residual gel and vapour. Caused some nice skin burns
Yeah we had something similar from London Underground
I was impressed when I was told I couldn’t have tyres for leadership exercises at squadron - can’t store them outside because of a fire risk. Can’t store them inside incase they catch fire. Now I have driven 1000s of miles at speeds on motorways (70mph obviously) yet they have never once spontaneously combusted on me. Not sure how they would combust in my storeroom at 17 degrees
Moreso arson risk if open-air, perhaps?
Yes, but inside?
Yeah not so much that. Did they complain about your planks, cricket stumps, bats/balls, and stacks of cotton clothing?
I suspect most self respecting arsonists would be more interested in the wooden building than a few old tyres.
Thankfully I hid the 4 tins of Humbrol paint. (which also isn’t flammable)
Not with the do as we likeys round our way.
I once took a tablecloth and candelabra to Nijmegen to decorate the room. (We even had photographs of the queen and DofE on the wall)
I came back from town one Sunday or monday to find my candles had been confiscated and a note to report to the BMC HQ.
Apparently they were a fire hazard, I pointed out that they weren’t lit, and was told that they were a fire hazard as they could be lit. I pointed out that the building was made of wood and plastic, that too was a fire hazard if set alight. I don’t think they understood.
Don’t know of their building is wooden or not.
The new Eurovision film on Netflix with Will Ferrell. An amazing film. Truly, truly awful but amazing in its awfulness.
Sometimes the worse the film is the better…
Films with not much thinking just plenty of cringing can be the best escape…
This bit was redundant the moment you mentioned Will Ferrell