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Two circumstances make carbon monoxide a hazard.
1. Carbon monoxide becomes a hazard when it is produced in high enough concentrations to hurt someone. The fact of its generation of injurious concentrations presents a hazardous condition.
2. Exposure to these injurious concentrations is the second needed circumstance. Automobiles and other vehicles have open exhaust systems. Most gas cooking systems are unvented. Gas & oil water heaters, furnaces & boilers may be designed with vents & chimneys but still have ways for combustion gas to escape. Testing of systems is vital to prevention of injury & death and can result in increased energy efficiency. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems
The following story may be an example that could help you explain to someone who asks the question, “Can electricity cause carbon monoxide?”
Small Fire Sends 4 People to Hospital for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
KGNB 1420 AM
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Four people were taken to the hospital for possible carbon monoxide poisoning after a small electrical fire broke out an apartment complex yesterday morning. Just before 11am yesterday, New Braunfels Fire and EMS crews were ...
UCA to install carbon monoxide detectors, test Burdick Hall again
Log Cabin Democrat
Carbon monoxide detectors and oxygen level meters will be installed in the building next week, although UCA does “not have any cases of carbon monoxide poisoning,” Jenkins said in email. Officials will seek an additional test from an independent ...
Australia
Gas Appliance (Carbon Monoxide) Safety Strategy Decision RIS ...
By scer
Gas Appliance (Carbon Monoxide) Safety Strategy Decision RIS. Posted on June 8, 2012 by scer. The Gas Appliance (Carbon Monoxide) Safety Strategy Decision RIS is now available on the SCER website. To see the RIS and for further ...
The “National standards for criteria air pollutants in Australia” [1] sets an upper limit of 9.0 ppm (parts per million) for carbon monoxide “measured over an eight hour period” for ambient air. The USEPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) [2] set the same (9 ppm) standard for an 8 hour averaging period but also include a one hourly average standard of 35 ppm. At high concentrations CO is highly toxic, as may be seen from the site quoted in reference 2 (http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Topics/AtoZ/CarbonMonoxide/ ). Other examples of health-based standards and guidelines relevant to unflued gas heater emissions may be found in reference 3.
Australia
From the: Gas Technical Regulators Committee
Correspondence: 303 Sevenoaks Street Cannington Western Australia 6107
Gas Appliance (Carbon Monoxide Safety) Strategy
A range of possible remedial actions have been considered and are briefly summarised below:-
1. The use of CO alarms is not favoured in residences because alarms are a nonpreferred procedural control. In addition, there are issues relating to their reliability, useful life, functionality (number required), positioning, cost and because they are not linked into the gas supply of the appliance and so cannot effect a cut off. To incorporate such a link would require a more complex design with significant manufacturing modifications and cost implications. The cost of installing mains powered CO alarms without links to the interruption of gas supplies would be in the order of 3.5 to 4 billion dollars.
2. Over a 10 year period the cost of the initial installation and ongoing replacement of alarms with gas supply interruption capability would be around $12B. Over such 10 year period an estimated 10 fatalities would have occurred due to CO poisoning, mostly in residences. While a Quantitative Risk Assessment would be required, it is not anticipated that expending around $1.2B to $1.5B per potential fatality represents optimal value for the community.
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.
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
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