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Carbon Monoxide Safety
Signs of potential CO problems:
Build-up of soot or discolouring around the appliance Excessive condensation on walls and windows
High incidences of poor health in the home
You can’t see it, smell it
or taste it
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is released as a by-product of a combustion process in the following appliance types:
Gas Portable Gas
Appliances or Paraffin Heaters
Oil /Solid Fuel Stoves
Oil/Gas Boilers or Furnaces
Gas/ Solid Fuel Fire Places
Blocked or Cracked Chimneys
% CO
0.01
Parts Per Million (ppm) CO
100
Effects on an Adult Human Body
Slight headache after 2 to 3 hours
% Saturation of COHB
in the Bloodstream
13
A CO Alarm will alert you to a
problem
Within 90 minutes
0.02 200 Mild headache, dizziness, nausea and tiredness 20-30 40 Within after 2-3 hours minutes
0.04 400 Frontal headache and nausea after 1 to 2 hours. 36 3 Within Life threatening after 3 hours minutes
0.08 800 Severe headache, dizziness, convulsions within 50 45 mins. Unconsciousness and death possible
within 2 - 3 hours
Within 3 minutes
0.16 1600 Headaches, dizziness, nausea within 20 minutes. 68 Collapse, unconsciousness and death possible
within 1 to 2 hours
Within 3 minutes
0.32 3200 Headaches, dizziness and nausea within 5 to10 70-75 3 Within minutes. Death within 25-30 minutes minutes
"The Silent Killer"
18 Carbon Monoxide Safety