Onsite Cigarette Lighter

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I recall, many years ago, a wall-mounted device for this installed in onsite construction trailers. Anybody else seen something similar?

Paul

> Hi folks, hoping someone out there has an easy answer for this
one.....
>
> About 20% of the products we manufacture are solvent based (likely to
> increase in future) and thus we have designated the whole
manufacturing
> area as a hazardous area and banned mobile phones, pagers, lighters,
> matches etc. To accomodate our smokers we have built a shelter
outside the
> manufacturing building but still on our premises which leads to
employees
> carrying matches and lighters in their pockets rather than returning
via
> the changeroom facilities to their lockers. To simplify matters we
would
> like to extend the ban on matches, lighters etc to the whole site but
in
> order to do so we need to provide an alternate means for employees to
light
> their cigarettes (we considered banning smoking altogether but that
raised
> a political storm that we are not prepared to deal with at this time).
>
> Does anyone know of a simple product such as an electric coil similar
to a
> car cigarette lighter that is commercially available (preferably in
> Australia) ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Scott Puddy
> Group Manager - Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs
> CREANOVA ASIA-PACIFIC PTY LTD
Received on Thu Nov 23 11:32:00 2000