Friday, June 13, 2014

Carbon Monoxide News June 13, 2014 - posts updated frequently

Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day.
Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.
We can learn from others mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning.


“Well look again, come on my friend”
"Lost in a lost world" - Moody Blues - music link

What will you be doing today?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.

We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.

Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the unit. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million).

Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others.

Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide.
Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. Measurement is continuing education at its best.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety 

CO and Air Quality News Links
Rest Stop in I-95 North in Milford Evacuated
NBC Connecticut
A rest stop on I-95 in Milford is closed because of a carbon monoxide issue. The rest area on Interstate 95 North in Milford is closed and has been ...

Kitchener business closed due to high levels of carbon monoxide
Waterloo Record
Tuesday morning around 9:30 a.m. due to an incident involving high levels of carbon monoxide. An ambulance was called to Next Cycle for an ...

Gas leak at SAIL's Bhilai steel plant, 6 dead, 35 affected
Moneycontrol.com
Six persons, including two Deputy General Managers, were killed and 35 others were affected after a poisonous gas leaked at Steel Authority of India's Bhilai Plant in Durg district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday…

Colchester: Woman in hospital after suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
East Anglian Daily Times
A woman, believed to be in her 90s, suffered from shock after breathing in smoke coming from a kitchen fire…

Canada's first mandatory national emissions standards
Energy Global
The regulations will contribute significantly to lower smog levels and better air quality throughout the country. It is also estimated that these regulations ...

Kicking and screaming about climate change
NUVO Newsweekly
Over the past three years the EPA has enacted a Mercury and Air Toxics Standard and a Cross-State Air Pollution rule… Indiana could have been making headlines by enacting policies and procedures aimed at making our air quality among the best in the land. Instead, our governor is looking for legal means to circumvent the new regulations - and perpetuate Indiana's "good enough" air quality, which ranks in the bottom tier of states... 

Who is responsible for the air you breathe? 
Take control inside your homes. 
-Link to:  CO alarm standards  

The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 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. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety 

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

These following links may be of some use to you: 

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

National Conference of State Legislatures 
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes 

Twenty-eight U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Feb. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
  |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | |Minnesota 
  
Red Cross - Typhoon Appeal continues in the Philippines. Another please, with hopes of another thank you. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Red Cross - Disaster Relief to safely assist law enforcement, fire department, utility company, city, county and state authorities as repair and rebuilding moves forward. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Nationally, the Red Cross provides food and shelter to people affected by as many as 70,000 fires annually, or about one fire every eight minutes.

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 

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