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Legal requirements for lighters

Into: General product safety Product categories Products dangerous when used Lighters

Since March 2008, following Decision 2006/502/EC non-child resistant lighters and novelty lighters cannot be sold to consumers. Decision 2009/298 prolongs the validity of Decision 2006/502/EC requiring Member States to take measures to ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market and to prohibit the placing on the market of novelty lighters. Child Resistant Lighters European standards sets out the child-resistance specifications for lighters. A child (...) Read more

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Safey measures

Into: General product safety Product categories Products dangerous when used Lighters

For many years, some countries have made it a legal requirement for lighters to have Child-resistance mechanisms exist to prevent such accidents. Reports from the United States indicate that the introduction of child-resistance requirements reduced the type of accidents referred to previously by more that 60%. All lighters in the EU that are sold to consumers must now be child resistant. This now means that about 98% of all lighters sold in the EU each year, including all disposable, (...) Read more

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Preventing fire and burns

Into: Keep yourself safe Home and garden safety

Stay safe from fire by testing smoke alarms monthly and be sure all the family know how to escape in the event of a fire. Avoid burns and scalds, particularly to children, by always using the cooker’s back ring or hotplate first and position panhandles so that they can’t be pulled over and by keeping hot drinks out of reach of children. Reduce the likelihood of household fires and carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty flues or equipment by having gas, oil or solid fuel heating appliances (...) Read more

Lighters , Gas , Fire , Smoke alarm

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