Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Carbon Monoxide News December 4, 2012 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day

CO alarm standards know when you are protected

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, bio link)

If you can read this, you too have been carbon monoxide poisoned. It is unavoidable living in an economically driven combustion culture.

We are a combustion culture.  We burn things so we can use the energy. Look around. If all the people in the world who could read this message right this very minute, did read this message wherever they may be and just looked around, (at home, traveling, commuting, in school, at work, waiting somewhere, etc.) they most likely would find that they are within reach or just a few meters of a combustion system.

For those of us in large buildings,  the combustion system most likely too, is inside the building with us, heating water or air or cooking or even cleaning.

Take responsibility of the air you breathe.  Carbon monoxide must be measured. Do not let the symptoms of carbon monoxide be your alarm.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

CO News links
Atlanta school poisoning follow up

Carbon monoxide detectors not required in all schools
NBCNews.com

In Atlanta on Monday, dozens of children were rushed to the hospital when their school became filled with carbon monoxide. Why wasn't there a warning before kids got sick? NBC's Jeff Rossen investigates why not all schools are required to have carbon ...

How to Safeguard against Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
13WMAZ
After an Atlanta school was evacuated and over fifty people were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, Demetrius Ellison a lieutenant with the Macon-Bibb Fire Department sat down with 13WMAZ's Leah Johnson on Eyewitness News at 6 on Monday.

Experts Suggest Placing Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Home
French Tribune

Winters are already in and with illnesses like cold and coughs, the season brings along some dangers, actually something life-threatening. Experts had some time back warned regarding the same, but they are again reminding one and all of carbon monoxide ...

Ignorance and the invisible killer
New Zealand Herald

Carbon monoxide-related deaths will not stop until the causes are accurately reported and understood. As the level of carbon monoxide built up, it would eventually reach the level of. Expand. As the level of carbon monoxide built up, it would ...

Reduce the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning
Dairy Herd Management

'Tis the season for carbon monoxide precautions. According to Dean Ross, an agrosecurity and dairy farm management consultant based in Michigan, a two-pronged strategy is needed to prevent and protect against the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The lowest U.L. 2034 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
70 PPM to 149 PPM –
resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions.


Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Minnesota Department of Commerce

SAINT PAUL, MN – Each year about 50,000 people visit emergency rooms in the United States for CO poisoning, and more than 500 die each year from this silent, odorless, colorless gas. As part of Winter Hazard Awareness Week (November 5-9), the Minnesota Department of Commerce warns Minnesotans of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and to take steps to avoid this “silent killer.”

Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning
Carbonmonoxidekills.com

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Carbon monoxide toxicity
Emergency Medicine Ireland -
By Andy Neill

Aviators – note:
(PDF)
Federal Aviation Administration warning; Carbon Monoxide: a Deadly Menace
Carbon Dioxide earth atmospheric update levels;
Current Data for Atmospheric CO2

· Heart rescue video using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.

· Carbon Monoxide Survivor
A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.

Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.

National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia

Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.

American Red Cross - disaster relief

The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts CO-Experts Model 2014 Brochure
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International