Carbon Monoxide News August 1, 2013 - posts updated frequently

Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day.
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It is always a good day when there are no new carbon monoxide deaths or injuries to report. Yesterday I had the good fortune to provide CO Safety for the Health Care Provider training to around 130 Medical Assistant students at the Pueblo campus of IntelliTec Colleges in Colorado. We also demonstrated the pulse CO-oxymeter (See non-invasive RAD-57) on all attendees. One of the morning students returned with her family to the evening class group out of concerns for her children. We had concerns about their test results and have inaugurated steps to trace the steps of exposure they have been experiencing. You have got to love testing versus guessing. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Carbon monoxide is produced when the action of fire is incomplete and is represented as one carbon molecule (C) bound with one oxygen (O) molecule. The reference chemical symbol for carbon monoxide is CO. CO is typically measured in parts per million or PPM; out of a million molecules of air, how many PPM are CO molecules? CO measured in flue gasses also most often uses PPM.

This action includes heating, cooking and water heating with wood, oil, natural gas, propane (LPG) and similar hydrocarbon based fuels. It includes burning gasoline or diesel fuel to power our cars, trucks, boats, planes & trains and electric generators. Exposures can occur in homes and other buildings, transportation & recreational vehicles, workplace environments and even in some outdoor areas where the source is strong and the ventilation weak.

Protecting yourself and family and others from carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure requires measurement protection with CO alarms, personal monitors, real low level alarms and monitors. It also requires combustion equipment maintenance and preventative measures so the equipment does not produce deadly levels of CO and that the users of the equipment understand the foreseeable hazards if care is not taken. Be responsible for your air. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety.

 

Who is responsible for the air you breathe? Take control inside your homes.

 

-Link to: →  CO alarm standards –
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. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
These following links may be of some use to you:
- The World Clock - Time Zones
- Google Maps-
- Earthquake Map

- American Red Cross
- Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution
- Heart Rescue using an (AED)

- Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
- Federal Aviation Administration CO warning
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.

- Carbon Monoxide detection -  National Fire Protection Association

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
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· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.

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.
NOTE: Another camera is in operation from a lower angle.

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
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