“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, bio link)
Why wait for the death or injury from carbon monoxide to occur before taking action? If you are responsible for the air you breathe, start measuring the air you are in at home, in motor vehicles, in public places and especially in places you enter to service or work. Find out what the notification or evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide in air and respond accordingly. Due diligence and duty requires announcing health and safety concerns to the occupants and/or owners of the space.
If you choose to wear your own, self-purchased personal CO monitor where you are employed, please be informed that some businesses have very aggressive reactions to employees self investigating safety concerns within the body of the company. If you discover carbon monoxide levels of concerning concentrations with reference to evacuation or health risks to vulnerable people, proceed through the structure of your system.
If you choose a low level carbon monoxide alarm that begins alarming as low as 10 PPM or lower in your home as it occurs, remember: Low level CO alarms are designed to announce the presence of carbon monoxide before a more pronounced health symptom occurs and, before the concentration gets to that more serious level. This alarm is designed to awaken you and to raise your awareness to carbon monoxide being generated in or near your living space and to get you motivated to do something about it.
If you choose to utilize the standard inexpensive CO alarms, please note their alarm levels written on the packaging and instructions. Know what you are getting. In the U.S. and Canada the recognized listing for carbon monoxide levels are that they be certified at 70, 150 and 400 PPM of CO. There are specific waiting periods of time that the listing requires the alarms to resist alarming even at these levels of occurrence. The alarms without digital displays may never alert you to the evacuation levels of your own community or to levels that are unsafe for vulnerable people, especially the speechless baby who is growing fast. With a more rapid metabolism, the inhalation of CO begins to consume the binding sites on the hemoglobin molecules and the young child can only scream out and gesture its’ pain. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Carbon Monoxide News Links
Senate bill would require CO detectors in Pennsylvania homes
Chambersburg Public Opinion
HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously approved on Tuesday a bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in residential properties. Senate Bill 920 will require homeowners, upon the sale of their home, to disclose to the seller if the structure is equipped with a carbon monoxide detector in the vicinity of each bedroom and the fossil-fuel appliance or heater.
Random acts of public education
Carbon Monoxide Remains A Threat During Summer
Yankton Daily Press
Most people associate carbon monoxide poisoning with winter months. ... Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that is produced when a ...
Wicomico County Detention Center to get upgrades
Delmarva Now
Following an incident last July when 300 detainees had to be evacuated following a carbon monoxide leak, the project has been ushered to the front of the ...
* Good news for painless testing of poisoned people
New study demonstrates Masimo non-invasive procedure...
MarketWatch (press release)
Masimo announced today a new study in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine demonstrates for the first time that compared to invasive carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) measurement with laboratory CO-oximetry, noninvasive carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®) measurement with Masimo rainbow® Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) leads to more rapid diagnosis of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and a shorter time to the initiation of treatment with hyperbaric oxygen.
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.
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
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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
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
*Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
