Propane Floor Buffer Carbon Monoxide

This lightweight carbon monoxide detector is perfect for personal use when operating a propane buffer and provides audible visual and vibrating alerts.

Propane floor buffer carbon monoxide. The osha limit is 50 parts per million of carbon monoxide over an 8 hour period. It is dangerous to use engines or other fuel powered equipment indoors. Carbon monoxide is an invisible odorless colorless gas. Carbon monoxide poisoning associated with a propane powered floor burnisher vermont 1992.

These high speed propane floor buffers are extremely durable with steel body construction and have a low 3 3 4 height profile enabling easy access to hard to reach places such as under racks. Propane powered equipment used indoors should be replaced with electric powered equipment. Carbon monoxide co is responsible for almost 25 of all propane related fatalities. Detectors are a must for those who run propane powered equipment.

Properly functioning propane appliances will produce what is called an ideal burn during combustion and present no danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. All propane powered floor care machines produce emissions. The co detector is for everyone s protection against carbon monoxide poisoning. Electric powered floor buffers are commonly available and their use would eliminate the equipment as a source of carbon monoxide.

A clean well serviced propane buffer produces less than 10 parts per million of carbon monoxide which dissipates in the air. Other options in this category include a quality aztec floor finish applicator a solution retrieval machine and a solution applicator for your floor. At a local hospital emergency department carbon monoxide co poisoning was diagnosed based on elevated carboxyhemoglobin hbco levels. Most are harmless but some are dangerous and can be fatal.

The maximum tolerable level of exposure to carbon monoxide is 50 parts per million over the course of an eight hour day under osha regula tions. Produces low hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions far below the standards set by epa. Propane powered equipment should only be used indoors when adequate ventilation and carbon monoxide detectors and alarms are available. Carbon monoxide co poses the greatest risk since co can be lethal within as little as 30 minutes exposure at 3 000 parts per million ppm concentration.

A properly maintained propane powered floor machine produces less than 10 parts per million carbon monoxide in the ambient or surrounding air much. A co carbon monoxide detector detects carbon monoxide before it reaches dangerous levels. Carbon monoxide is a leading cause of fatal poisonings and using electric powered floor buffers would eliminate the equipment as a source of carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is the product of incomplete gas combustion often because appliances are improperly adjusted.

Carbon monoxide detector passive o effective for 30 days after package has been opened.