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We can learn from others mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning.
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988, bio link)
What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.
We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the unit. 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 as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million).
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others.
Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide.
Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. Measurement is continuing education at its best. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO and Air Quality News Links
Maintain your fire and breathe easy
Daily Advertiser
Turvey Park fire chief John O'Dwyer said carbon monoxide was colourless and odourless and excessive exposure to it could kill…
Houseboats can carry hidden carbon monoxide dangers
wwlp.com
Houseboats that use gasoline-powered generators that lack emission controls may produce dangerous levels of carbon monoxide,…
ERC Helped Give Away 400 Carbon Monoxide Detectors In 2013
Energy Resource Center
The Energy Resource Center helped to spearhead a Carbon Monoxide Task Force in early 2013 with the goal of increasing education…
Wildfires dot central Russia's landscape
Science Codex
All smoke contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulate matter (PM or soot). Smoke can contain many different chemicals,…
Maintain your fire and breathe easy
Daily Advertiser
Turvey Park fire chief John O'Dwyer said carbon monoxide was colourless and odourless and excessive exposure to it could kill…
Houseboats can carry hidden carbon monoxide dangers
wwlp.com
Houseboats that use gasoline-powered generators that lack emission controls may produce dangerous levels of carbon monoxide,…
ERC Helped Give Away 400 Carbon Monoxide Detectors In 2013
Energy Resource Center
The Energy Resource Center helped to spearhead a Carbon Monoxide Task Force in early 2013 with the goal of increasing education…
Wildfires dot central Russia's landscape
Science Codex
All smoke contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulate matter (PM or soot). Smoke can contain many different chemicals,…
Too little testing, too many people suffer symptoms without
knowing what the cause is. Perhaps if the health care provider was better
educated and took carbon monoxide seriously, less would suffer.
To understand carbon monoxide poisoning, one must know the culture of the victim. The patient, like ourselves are inhabitants of a combustion culture. Situations where people breath in combustion gases and experience oxygen displacement health symptoms are quite common, yet these conditions diagnosed as CO poisoning are not commonly recognized. When industry holds a financial grip on a community, the community often caves in and accepts the health hazards. When this happens, the health community has got to step up and not ignore the health symptoms carbon monoxide and other nasty combustion gas poisonings presents.
This publication repeats the question at every turn, “Could this health symptom be influenced or be compounded by carbon monoxide poisoning?” Measure the air, measure the complainant or victim. As we prepare for the upcoming winter be advised that the incidences of “reported” CO poisonings are projected to increase. If you doubt this, please visit the headlines posted during the North American winter months the past few years in this news blog. Don’t let this be your carbon monoxide alarm.
Health care provider - If you want to know what normal levels of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb%) are for a patient, you are going to have to have comparative and timely test samples. A change in blood pressure alerts the technician and physician to a problem; a COHb% deviation accompanying presented symptoms would also give them notice.
Perhaps if the health care community began actually testing people in industrial areas that presented known, common symptoms of CO poisoning they may raise an important voice to the cause. But the lack of testing patients who present symptoms daily only demonstrates the degree of ignorance that is inherent in that practice and that there is more to CO poisoning than acute exposures. What is the value in not testing? Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
To understand carbon monoxide poisoning, one must know the culture of the victim. The patient, like ourselves are inhabitants of a combustion culture. Situations where people breath in combustion gases and experience oxygen displacement health symptoms are quite common, yet these conditions diagnosed as CO poisoning are not commonly recognized. When industry holds a financial grip on a community, the community often caves in and accepts the health hazards. When this happens, the health community has got to step up and not ignore the health symptoms carbon monoxide and other nasty combustion gas poisonings presents.
This publication repeats the question at every turn, “Could this health symptom be influenced or be compounded by carbon monoxide poisoning?” Measure the air, measure the complainant or victim. As we prepare for the upcoming winter be advised that the incidences of “reported” CO poisonings are projected to increase. If you doubt this, please visit the headlines posted during the North American winter months the past few years in this news blog. Don’t let this be your carbon monoxide alarm.
Health care provider - If you want to know what normal levels of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb%) are for a patient, you are going to have to have comparative and timely test samples. A change in blood pressure alerts the technician and physician to a problem; a COHb% deviation accompanying presented symptoms would also give them notice.
Perhaps if the health care community began actually testing people in industrial areas that presented known, common symptoms of CO poisoning they may raise an important voice to the cause. But the lack of testing patients who present symptoms daily only demonstrates the degree of ignorance that is inherent in that practice and that there is more to CO poisoning than acute exposures. What is the value in not testing? Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
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
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
These following links may be of some use to you:
- 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
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
These following links may be of some use to you:
-Alcoa Eagle Nest Camera
World population counter
- 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
World population counter
- 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
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-eight U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Feb. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
Red Cross - Typhoon Appeal continues in the Philippines. Another please, with hopes of another thank you. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Red Cross - Disaster Relief to safely assist law enforcement, fire department, utility company, city, county and state authorities as repair and rebuilding moves forward. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Nationally, the Red Cross provides food and shelter to people affected by as many as 70,000 fires annually, or about one fire every eight minutes.
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
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