SESSION 2 – 11:30 – 13:00 Stream 2 – Carbon Monoxide

Chair – Chris Bielby, Chair of Gas Safety Trust

GISGCO Alarms Enquiry Speaker Laura Fatah

The effect of CO exposure on pregnant women and the unborn child Speaker Hilary Wareing, Director, Improving Performance in Practice (iPiP)

The effect of CO exposure on older people Speaker Beth Cheshire, PhD Student, Faculty of Health and Medicine’s Centre4Ageing, Lancaster University

Title TBC Speaker Dr Julie Connolly, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moore’s University

Why testing for CO matters Speaker Stephanie Trotter OBE, President & Director of CO-Gas Safety

Stephanie will be adding the PPP she gave but meanwhile if you’d rather read it do email her and ask her to send it to you

Email is:- office@co-gassafety.co.uk

For the whole session see Session 2B – Carbon Monoxide https://vimeo.com/561336772/260a0d074d

Northeast Ohio couple spreading awareness of boating dangers after losing son to carbon monoxide poisoning

Seven year old Afton Taylor died in 2019 after carbon monoxide poisoning on a routine boat trip: his parents want to warn others

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-stark/northeast-ohio-couple-spreading-awareness-of-boating-dangers-after-losing-son-to-carbon-monoxide-poisoning

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Boy, 9, poisoned by carbon monoxide before slipping into lake after sitting at back of family’s boat ‘for most of day’

By Brinkwire on September 23, 2020

https://en.brinkwire.com/news/boy-9-poisoned-by-carbon-monoxide-before-slipping-into-lake-after-sitting-at-back-of-familys-boat-for-most-of-day/

There have been more than 140 similar fatalities since 2000, says a 2014 report.