Please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp4nMZKub8 and please let Stephanie know what you think about this by email office@co-gassafety.co.uk

The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations 2015 are through and came into force on the 1^st October 2015. Please see Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldhansrd/lhan43.pdf from page 1720 to the end.

We supported these regulations (because we support anything that will save lives) but they will only affect  ‘354,000 Private Rented properties with solid fuel, or 8.6% of the total.’. However, we think the comments by the Lords, particularly those by Lord Hunt and Lord McKenzie are helpful as was the personal experience of one the friends of Earl Cathcart.

As was reported on Sky by Neil Shepherd, father of Christi and Bobby, the children who died of CO in 2006 in Corfu, there were substantial donations made to several charities including independent registered charity CO-Gas Safety.
CO-Gas Safety is extremely grateful for this valuable donation to assist the charity to continue its work of preventing deaths and injuries from unintentional CO poisoning.
However, the amount of the donation although extremely welcome is not life changing for the charity, which will continue to do its work in a similar way. CO-Gas Safety still has no assured, continuous funding to collect, collate and publish data and provide victim support which it has done since 1995. Therefore all the work, apart from a small amount of paid work by our database officer, will still be done by volunteers. The charity’s directors are still considering the best use for these funds but the initial decision is to simply continue to do what the charity has always done.

I’ve heard that nearly 50,000 people are searching for the term Carbon Monoxide Poisoning every month. This came from Google so is all over the world. However, CO-Gas Safety doesn’t come up when you type Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in to Google. The trick apparently is to keep repeating Carbon Monoxide Poisoning on the website so please forgive me for repeating this on different parts of our website! CO victim Sue Westwood-Ruttledge kindly told me about this and another victim told me she had taken ages finding our website because it didn’t come up under carbon monoxide poisoning so I’m trying to add lots of references to carbon monoxide poisoning.

I’ve heard that nearly 50,000 people are searching for the term Carbon Monoxide Poisoning every month. This came from Google so is all over the world. However, CO-Gas Safety doesn’t come up when you type Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in to Google. The trick apparently is to keep repeating Carbon Monoxide Poisoning on the website so please forgive me for repeating this!

We’ve pledged the support of CO-Gas Safety to Gas Safety Week.

We would like support for our call for prime time TV warnings of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning from all fuels, (gas to wood), all appliances (boilers to barbecues) and all types of accommodation (bungalows to boats).

If you agree please write to Stephanie office@co-gassafety.co.uk Thank you.

A major change to the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure (GIUSP) came into effect in July. A single message of “Danger Do Not Use”, irrespective of either an “At Risk” (AR) or “Immediately Dangerous” (ID) classification being applied, is aimed at helping customers understand when appliances must not be used. Version 7 of GIUSP became current on 1 July 2015, but Gas Safe Register recognises that registered businesses/engineers will need time to revise their processes, procedures and documentation and carry out necessary internal update training. Therefore, Gas Safe Register will inspect to this version of the Procedure from 1 July 2016, so providing a 12-month lead-in period (businesses are encouraged to adopt the revised procedure as soon as possible).  The full text of the revised procedure can be downloaded from Gas Safe Register’s website.

My choices would be as follows:

1. The egg – I could relate to this one and it spoke to me in many ways – for me the message was that the acute poisoning leaves you brain dead/mindless and incapable of thinking at all (before it kills you) or in the case of chronic exposure that doesn’t kill you, you are left confused, dazed etc etc (I cant quite find the right word/s to aptly describe the process of spiralling down to near nothingness ). After constant exposure and post exposure (when your mind slowly starts to return) you are left with a single track mind at best ,where dual-tasking is something you have to relearn – for me, with the way things are at the moment, I cant imagine ever being able to multitask as I used to.

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See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B210yttSzcg&feature=youtu.be

http://youtu.be/ANeS-8mHVuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztm_khzHbc

Please watch them and tell us which one you like best. There are:-

1 . The egg.

2. Camping.

3. The talking lady.

We are most grateful to Susan Scotcher of Kingston University for these.

Please send us your comments office@co-gassafety.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYUchacuAE&feature=youtu.be

Do let us know what you think.