Working in chemical industry. I've been asked to write a policy mandating that no cigarette lighting materials are brought on site. As things stand today employees (and visitors for that matter) bring their own lighters/matches on site but, of course, only use them in the designated smoking area. The business is looking to take things up a notch by eliminating them entirely from the plant. Once the policy is implemented the company will provide means to light cigarettes at the designated smoking spot so we're looking to get all employees (and visitors) to leave their lighting materials in their car rather than carry them on their person. Does anyone have anything along these lines already developed? I have conducted a cursory Google search with nothing yet found so I wondered if anyone here might be able to provide a steer on this? Many thanks.

Thanks sutty. Further Google searches proved fruitless so in the end I have now produced something from scratch on this. Internal memo changing the rules will go out later today and I'll update other relevant internal documentation during next week to ensure that the systems fully reflect this new change. Just hope that the workers, or the subset of workers who use tobacco anyway, embrace the change.

don't forget to add 'no vaporing' [e-cigs] as well best practice must be to ban such things altogether as many have already done especially in 2015

We had a fire on our site that was the result of unauthorised smoking in a disused area. As a result of this no lighters or matches were allowed to be brought onto site, and anyone Caught with them faced instant dismissal. Small metal lockers were purchased for the people who smoked and these were positioned just outside the security gate so they could store their lighters, matches and cigarettes in. Every smoker was given a key to their own locker. This worked well, and we never found anyone with lighters,matches or cigarettes on them inside the premises.

One of the many sectors alluded to by sutty at #2 is coal mining where lighters, matches and related items are strictly banned underground because of the risk of ignition of explosive concentrations of gases. In relation to UK collieries the collective term for such banned items is "contraband". This term may be of use when doing internet searches. Furthermore, from what I've read and also experience of visiting a coal mine as a geology student in the 1970s, I understand that coal miners readily understood and closely heeded the contraband policies - and other arrangements to prevent and mitigate underground explosions. Not surprising in view of the numerous disasters which had occurred in mining areas. Some disasters at some pits (before the NCB was established) claimed several hundred lives at a time and caused massive hardship for the families of those killed. Apparently there's only one active 'deep' coal mine now in the UK. However, there are a number of former coal mines which are now mining museums and have contraband policies for underground tours by visitors. The policy at a mining museum I visited last year included mobile phones, cameras and probably also e-cigarettes.