Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” Toni Morrison (1931, bio link)
Besides getting your furnaces & boilers & cookers tested & serviced:
· Remember to have carbon monoxide protection and notification, at least from the high levels of 70 PPM and higher, but low level protection beginning over 5 PPM is best.
· Remember to make sure your CO alarms have power via battery or direct electrical current or both if required.
· Do not use gas ovens or other combustion systems that are not intended for heating as a heating source. It is recommended to exhaust oven and cooking gases out of the living space.
· Take note of upsetting health symptoms you are experiencing or that more than one of you living or working in the same space may be.
Safety Note: The exhaust fan used to remove gas cooking gasses out of the breathable air may exert enough reverse pressure through air being forced out of the living space, that it might interfere with the exhaust pressure on atmospherically vented appliances, listed as Category I – those with a non positive vent pressure.
Building pressure testing and verification is vital to the safe performance of this combustion equipment. The more exhaust fans, the more foreseeable venting problems (that have solutions).
The more you test, the more you will find to fix. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
SAFETY: Fire agency estimates only 1 in 10 homes have carbon monoxide ...
Long Beach Press-Telegram
The law was updated to include all California homes, but officials from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection estimate only one in 10 homes has a carbon monoxide detector in their homes. Smithe said she has heard many sad stories ...
Action, finally: State steps up for air quality
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The state has filed a lawsuit against the owners of an apartment building whose hydronic heater has contributed to the poor air quality in the University West neighborhood near Woodriver Elementary School. Regardless of the details of this particular...
Saskatchewan follow up
Health Region facing charges for carbon monoxide deaths in Humbodlt
News Talk 650 CKOM
The Saskatoon Health Region is being charged in connection with three deaths due to a carbon monoxide leak two years ago. The health authority faces 11 charges under the province's Occupational Health and Safety Act. There were no carbon monoxide ...
Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.
The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
70 PPM to 149 PPM – resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions.
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Minnesota Department of Commerce
SAINT PAUL, MN – Each year about 50,000 people visit emergency rooms in the United States for CO poisoning, and more than 500 die each year from this silent, odorless, colorless gas. As part of Winter Hazard Awareness Week (November 5-9), the Minnesota Department of Commerce warns Minnesotans of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and to take steps to avoid this “silent killer.”
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
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 video using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
· 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.
American Red Cross - disaster relief
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 CO-Experts Model 2014 Brochure
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
