“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” Paul Harvey (1918-2009, bio link)
Can we live safely with carbon monoxide, the clear and present danger? At what cost?
Measuring for carbon monoxide can save lives and improve your economy. Carbon monoxide costs a lot of money to produce. The appliances we use for heating and cooking do not need to produce lethal or dangerous levels of carbon monoxide to operate safely and efficiently. Carbon monoxide produced is wasted fuel.
Professional, well trained and certified technicians and boiler engineers know this and have instrumentation to help them diagnose and fine tune the systems they are employed to work on. This also costs money, but it can reduce the cost of fuel use and may just have an extra bonus; discover a hazard and remove or reduce the threat.
Discovering our roles; we all have something to do
· Test for CO when you enter a building and while performing your tasks.
· Encourage low level protection/awareness/measurement, in every building.
· Test people for CO poisoning when they present the symptoms.
· Remove or repair the threat; cooperate with the professionals.
· Cooperate with those trying to save your lives and improve your health.
· Be more aware of the source threats of carbon monoxide; measurement is education.
The financial impact of carbon monoxide includes activities associated with poisoning alerts (alarms) and emergency responses, hospitalizations, investigations, rehabilitation for victims and survivors, loss of life & use of property and misdiagnosed illnesses that pile dollar after dollar onto the costs of living safely with carbon monoxide. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News links
Urgent carbon monoxide detector recall
Banbridge Leader
BANBRIDGE District Council's Environmental Health Department is asking consumers who may have purchased a carbon monoxide alarm produced by Sensor Safe Ltd, with the model number SF80190, to stop using it immediately and return it to the place of ...
Follow up investigation reveals some details into CO death
Detectors tampered with at Portsmouth home where 2 died
The Virginian-Pilot
Experts and lawyers for the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority and the estate of Leroy and Inez Stith examine the Swanson Homes apartment where the Stiths were found dead of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in June. Photo taken in ...
Medical science, good news; but what about oxygen displacement?
Common anti-angina drug may help protect the heart against carbon monoxide ...
News-Medical.net
Animal studies have shown that the anti-angina drug ranolazine can significantly reduce the number of deaths from arrhythmias - irregular or abnormally paced heartbeats - that have been triggered by carbon monoxide…”The findings may also help those living in built-up areas or whose work involves daily exposure to lower levels of carbon monoxide, such as firefighters, the researchers believe. A recent and extensive epidemiological study of nine million people in the US1 showed a clear link between environmental carbon monoxide exposure and hospitalisation due to cardiovascular complaints.”
"This study is a good example of research being used to better understand the underlying causes of an abnormal heart rhythm and in this case it has uncovered the ability of an old drug to perform a new trick. Carbon monoxide poisoning is tragically common but hopefully these promising results can be replicated in people so that it saves lives in the future." Source: University of Leeds - r.d.mellor@leeds.ac.uk
4 years after BC tragedy, mushroom farms still lack safety plans
Vancouver Sun
But a wider push to get “exposure control plans” in place at all of the province's 40 white mushroom farms — which don't have composting operations, but still face risks from carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide — is taking much longer, according to ...
· 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 Instruments
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!
