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Allowable
Limits for Carbon
Monoxide
Carbon
Monoxide Alarms
Carbon
Monoxide Fact Sheet
Carbon
Monoxide Misconceptions
Chronic
Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning
History
of Carbon Monoxide
How
Carbon Monoxide is produced
Symptons
of CO Poisoning
Where
Carbon Monoxide Comes
From
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What they can and cannot do
- CAN - sense unacceptable levels of CO in the air
- CAN - provide early warning, before a healthy adult might
show symptoms
- CAN - act as round-the-clock monitor of CO
- CAN - only sense CO that reaches it - Where you hang a detector
is important
- CAN - breakdown like any other electronic device
- CANNOT - work without electrical power (batteries, AC)
- CANNOT - sense smoke, natural gas, propane, etc. (It is not
a smoke detector!)
Where to put (or not put) your detector
- PUT - near a bedroom, or other room where people spend most
of their time; where its alarm can be heard.
- READ the instructions that come with your Detector.
- DO NOT PUT - in garage, furnace room, near cooking stove,
etc.
- DO NOT PUT - in dead air space, corner of room, near floor,
in peak of vaulted ceiling.
- DO NOT PUT - near open windows or doors.
- DO NOT PUT - in excessively hot or cold areas, or excessively
damp or dry areas.
- DO NOT PUT - a cloth or plastic cover over the detector.
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