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I work in a garage and my office is very close to the vehicle workshop. Sometimes when the engines have been running in the workshop for a while the exhaust fumes enter my office area. The smell is terrible and I have no protection. The mechanics have extractor fans but fail to use them. I have asked them why they don't use them but they just use excuses like they don't work. I raised the issue with my boss and he basically laughed in my face. How can I get him to take my concerns seriously? Even if I report the company, how do I gather evidence to prove the company was negligent?
Answer
Actually it takes 1-2 hours to accumulate the Amount of CO (Carbon monoxide) that it takes to be lethal in a 36,000 cubic foot room/garage without any or little ventilation. So if the Bay/car doors of the garage are open for ventilation then the amount of CO that accumulates in your office is very low and is only lethal or dangerous to your health if the cars are running at idle for approximately 24-26 hours and if you are sitting or close to the floor about 30-60 cm (1-2 ft.) from the floor Due to the CO being denser than the air (Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon mixture of the atmosphere). The human body needs to be exposed to a CO enriched room for 2-5 minutes for a lethal dose of CO or 30 seconds to 1.75 minutes for dangerous carboxylhemoglobulin levels. So your choice would be report to OSHA, EPA, or HR about the problem but if there is not enough CO accumulation in your office then there isn't anything that OSHA, EPA, or HR can do if you want to you can go to your local Hardware store and by a CO alarm and place it in your office they go off if there is a high or dangerous CO level one thing to also look at is if the fire alarm system in the shop is active and fairly new then that would be set off by an integrated CO detector.
Actually it takes 1-2 hours to accumulate the Amount of CO (Carbon monoxide) that it takes to be lethal in a 36,000 cubic foot room/garage without any or little ventilation. So if the Bay/car doors of the garage are open for ventilation then the amount of CO that accumulates in your office is very low and is only lethal or dangerous to your health if the cars are running at idle for approximately 24-26 hours and if you are sitting or close to the floor about 30-60 cm (1-2 ft.) from the floor Due to the CO being denser than the air (Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon mixture of the atmosphere). The human body needs to be exposed to a CO enriched room for 2-5 minutes for a lethal dose of CO or 30 seconds to 1.75 minutes for dangerous carboxylhemoglobulin levels. So your choice would be report to OSHA, EPA, or HR about the problem but if there is not enough CO accumulation in your office then there isn't anything that OSHA, EPA, or HR can do if you want to you can go to your local Hardware store and by a CO alarm and place it in your office they go off if there is a high or dangerous CO level one thing to also look at is if the fire alarm system in the shop is active and fairly new then that would be set off by an integrated CO detector.
my carbon monoxide detector reads 2ppm in my wearhouse when my forklift trucks are running is this safe?
CHARLES
Answer
If it truly is only 2 ppm then you are within the limits of OSHA which has established a 50 PPM limit for the workplace.... But be careful of the testing device you are using. Some devices use a different unit of measure. The safest concentration is zero.
Some detection devices only measure concentrations of 1,000 parts per million and higher, significantly above safe levels. Testing equipment should be capable of sensing levels as low as one part per million. For example, Underwriters Laboratories' standard for residential carbon monoxide detectors requires detectors to alarm before 90 minutes of exposure to 100 parts per million of carbon monoxide.
If initial readings don't reveal sufficient concentrations of carbon monoxide to set off the alarm, digital measurement testing equipment that produces a printed 24-hour record can be used to help identify the source.
If it truly is only 2 ppm then you are within the limits of OSHA which has established a 50 PPM limit for the workplace.... But be careful of the testing device you are using. Some devices use a different unit of measure. The safest concentration is zero.
Some detection devices only measure concentrations of 1,000 parts per million and higher, significantly above safe levels. Testing equipment should be capable of sensing levels as low as one part per million. For example, Underwriters Laboratories' standard for residential carbon monoxide detectors requires detectors to alarm before 90 minutes of exposure to 100 parts per million of carbon monoxide.
If initial readings don't reveal sufficient concentrations of carbon monoxide to set off the alarm, digital measurement testing equipment that produces a printed 24-hour record can be used to help identify the source.
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