John, Since you mentioned tea-lights, I had to share this story...
We have a rental cabin in the mountains and for safety concerns we purchased some of the battery powered candles to keep guests from accidently burning the place down. Ironically, it only took about 2 months for someone to attempt to light the candle with a real flame. Amazingly, the plastics appear to be fairly resilient. Of course the candle did turn black but must have extinguished fairly rapidly. http://www.flamelesscandles.net/ Best Regards, Jody Leber SGS Consumer Testing Services Manager, Battery Test Certification Program SGS - U. S. Testing Company, Inc. 16870 West Bernardo Drive, Suite 250 San Diego, CA 92127 USA Phone: 678.469.9835 Fax: 858.592.7107 E-mail: jody.le...@sgs.com From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 1:51 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Workplace Safety Rules In message <64f94c18f6d40243bcf3fc0a8a4bda792eb3e56...@mshq11.thoratec.com>, dated Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Bryce Stammerjohan <bstammerjo...@thoratec.com> writes: >Found on the back of my infant son's all plastic Winnie The Pooh book: >"No part of this book is meant to be ingested". Wheww, that was a >close one! > >Assuming that someone would actually be saved from feeding this book to >their child, what are the odds that they know what "ingested" means? Wasn't it written in 19 languages? In connection with the highly controversial 'candle flame ignition' test, I bought some tea-lights from the local supermarket. The label carries nineteen safety symbols, of which I understand just two, and I'm rather 'into' safety symbols, after all! I don't see one that tells me not put a tea-light on top of a TV set, which is the cause of fires (not very many at all), but which the pathetic Technical Specification doesn't address at all. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Things can always get better. But that's not the only option. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com> Information in this email and any attachments is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed or otherwise directed. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. All SGS services are rendered in accordance with the applicable SGS conditions of service available on request and accessible at http://www.sgs.com/terms_and_conditions.htm - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
