Dave Yates does his part

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Contractor magazine on CO. Title "CO Detection Protects Your Customers". Take a few minutes to discuss carbon monoxide issues with all your mechanics.

It has prompted something for me to do.

I will post seperately about what I want to do.

Dale

CO decisions

I think every shop and mechanic needs to remember a max CO amount that they won't exceed. Ours is 200ppm and we say don't go into a space that exceeds that. The policy is to call the fire dept. and let them and their air breathing scba gear ventilate the space first. If there are people in the space at least the fire dept is on the way as we try to talk the people into leaving, surprisingly they often resist.

Dave Yates (PAH)

half-life = half-dead

The reason why they need to leave before being exposed for any duration at that level or, worst case, waiting till they feel the affects, is the half-life of CO and that it is so readily adsorbed by red blood cells. By the time you feel ill, you may well have assimilated a fatal dose.

We've had three customers so far this year (not counting the couple in the CM story) who simply disabled their CO detectors assuming they were defective and to stop the racket.

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