“If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.”
Andy Rooney (1919-2011, bio link)
Carbon monoxide poisoning has taken lives while people have been boating. Please note the information in the following headline link. For those of us that have ever been out on the water fishing, enjoying water sports or just slowly cruising, and have experienced that piercing headache or sea sickness know that carbon monoxide is often the culprit but seldom gets the blame unless there is a fatality.
Should you take a carbon monoxide detector or a personal monitor on a boat? Who is responsible for the air you breathe? Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Carbon Monoxde Dangers in Boating
Center for Disease Control – NIOSH Workplace
In August 2000, the National Park Service, through the Department of the Interior, requested assistance from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the U.S. Coast Guard to evaluate visitor and employee carbon monoxide (CO) exposures from generators and propulsion engines on houseboats. This initial investigation characterized CO poisonings through epidemiologic data gathering and the measurement of severely hazardous CO concentrations on houseboats at Lake Powell. Since that initial investigation, over 800 boating-related poisonings in 35 states have been identified with over 140 of these poisonings resulting in death. Over 300 of the poisonings occurred on houseboats, with more than 200 of these poisonings attributed to generator exhaust alone.
Power back on but people still want generators for next time
Generators returning to shelves
Columbus Dispatch
At least six people have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the Columbus area while using generators during the past decade, including three men who died in 2003 in a house under construction in Pataskala. The men also were using a kerosene heater ...
· Heart Rescue Now
This link takes you to a very short video that is a practical demonstration on the proper usage of an AED. This video is tastefully done & demonstrates the step-by-step way one might be able to save a life.
· 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.
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
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
