“If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”
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Does the community know enough about carbon monoxide generation and the safe use of combustion systems to be prepared and to take necessary steps before the injury or illness occurs?
Preparation:
· Is there a consensus level for when emergency responders wear air support systems?
· Is there a consensus evacuation level for citizens?
· Are personal carbon monoxide safety monitors worn by all emergency responders who respond to distressed citizen calls and enter unfamiliar buildings?
· Are the buildings equipped with carbon monoxide alarm devices that are equal to the standards utilized by emergency responders for air support and evacuation?
· Since not all people are of equal health, carbon monoxide alarms & warning devices will be in all buildings where people may be exposed to any level of carbon monoxide and be alerted to levels equal to the compliance standards for emergency responders use of self contained breathing apparatus and evacuation.
· Is there a common practice to test all people with flu-like or other symptoms known to be associated with carbon monoxide poisoning? Are they tested for CO poisoning when the symptoms are presented, including those with heart dysfunctions? Are emergency responders testing victims with symptoms or those associated by vicinity to the carbon monoxide distress on site with non-invasive devices?
· How far away are the hyperbaric facilities?
· Are the combustion heating systems in all buildings tested and tuned regularly to reduce the inefficiencies and hazards of these systems?
· Is there an educational program for consumers regarding fire and carbon monoxide safety in place that begins in early childhood and continues through all ages?
Every moment is a starting point and the end result of culminating starting points. There is no time like the present to begin connecting the procedural dots of carbon monoxide poisoning prevention. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News links
Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in deaths of Cleveland Heights couple
NewsNet5.com
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - Police are investigating after a man and woman were found dead, along with their cat and dog, in their Cleveland Heights home Thursday afternoon. The stove was left on in the home and carbon monoxide poisoning is ...
Carbon monoxide detectors required in California residences beginning in 2013
abc7.com
According to Cal-Fire, an average of nearly 500 people die nationwide every year of carbon monoxide poisoning. It also sends more than 20,000 to the emergency room. That's why the carbon monoxide detectors were mandated in California homes a year ...
Doctors' CO diagnosis saves lives
abc7news.com
At about 1 a.m. Thursday, some 500 guests were evacuated from their rooms at the Embassy Suites hotel after firefighters found a carbon monoxide leak in the swimming pool boiler. Earlier Wednesday evening at about 6 p.m., paramedics transported a guest ...
Are carbon monoxide detectors sensitive enough?
FOX 9 News
With furnaces working around the clock now, many people are checking the batteries in their carbon monoxide detectors -- but are they sensitive enough? The detectors are required by state law, and they are designed to warn you when carbon monoxide ...
Seeley Lake working toward pollution solution
KAJ18 Kalispell Montana News
"We have dozens of days a year in Seeley Lake in the winter time where we're getting values of 60 micrograms per cubic meter," explained Missoula City-County Health Department Air Quality Specialist Ben Schmidt. That number represents the amount of ...
Carbon monoxide charity in funding crisis
Runcorn and Widnes World
Crusading Runcorn mum Lynn Griffiths, aged 52, launched Carbon Monoxide Awareness in April 2005, after her family suffered the devastating effects of undiagnosed poisoning at their former home. A partially blocked flu had remained undetected despite ... If you listened to their influence, they may have saved your life. Now, you can help save their mission.
Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning
Carbonmonoxidekills.com
Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:
Carbon monoxide toxicity
Emergency Medicine Ireland - By Andy Neill
Carbon monoxide is produced whenever there is incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. In house fires there's frequently more burning that there is oxygen so lots of CO is produced. It is thought to be the commonest cause of death in house ...
Aviators – note:
(PDF) Federal Aviation Administration warning; Carbon Monoxide: a Deadly Menace
Carbon Dioxide earth atmospheric update levels;
Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
· Heart rescue now using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)-video
· 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
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Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
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