Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.” Tom Robbins (1936, bio link)
The following links may be of some use to you:
The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief
Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution - U.S. EPA
Your home should have a carbon monoxide alarm if you have an attached garage or use natural gas, propane, fuel oil, coal or wood to heat your water or use in your furnace, boiler, fireplace or cooking system. You should have a carbon monoxide alarm if you burn wood for heat or occasionally in a fireplace. Many homes need more than one CO alarm and all should have at least one low level monitor that will alert you before you may begin to feel ill.
Make sure a trained & credentialed service professional tests each appliance using a testing instrument that can detect carbon monoxide or analyze the combustion gases. Today’s HVAC technician should also be able to measure building, duct and fuel pressures to aid in the prevention or diagnosis of combustion system failure and CO generation. If carbon monoxide is found, your cooperation to help correct the situation is vital.
If you have symptoms described as carbon monoxide poisoning, seek medical testing! Today’s health care provider should be aware of the symptoms of CO poisoning and respond accurately. Their best response is to measure the victim.
Take some responsibility for the air you breathe. Have working carbon monoxide alarms that inform and alert you to levels of CO before they make you sick or compound any pre-existing health problem. It is your air. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links –
Update your carbon monoxide detectors! fire safety video
MyMassAppeal.com
Carbon monoxide is an invisible, odorless killer, and it's important to make sure your Carbon Dioxide detector is up to date.
Update
Quick acting employer saves 3 from carbon monoxide poisoning - News ...
Turn to 10
"We do an area check of the residence to make sure if there is anyone else there, and that's when you know the two subjects, the two male subjects were found in the residence, the same symptoms of the carbon monoxide poisoning ," Lt. Nahrgang said.
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-seven 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
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
Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.
What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
