Expert explains why you shouldn’t store hand sanitiser bottles in your car in hot weather

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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.

While we should all keep one on us, especially if we’re travelling to work and back, it could potentially catch fire if you’re storing it in your car in this hot weather.

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. “Our advice is to remove alcohol-based hand sanitisers when the British.