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Make sure your house won’t kill you
Carbon Monoxide: the senseless student killer
Y
ou can’t hear it, smell it or
see it, and unless there’s a You are at
Make sure you don’t
detector fitted in your
risk from
home, you won’t even know its
succumb to the silent killer
there. But every year more than
CO poisoning if:
lCheck to make sure your property has a
200 people suffer from its l Your gas appliance is Gas Safety Certificate (CP 12)
effects, some fatally. poorly installed lMake sure any maintenance to gas
Carbon monoxide, dubbed appliances is done buy a Gas Safe
‘the silent killer’, is a poisonous
l You gas appliance is
gas that is emitted by some
not working properly
registered installer. Insist on seeing their
credentials
faulty gas appliances.
lYou can buy a CO alarm from most DIYl Your gas appliance
The symptoms of carbon
has not been stores for around £20. Ask your
monoxide poisoning include
checked or properly landlord to fit it for you.
drowsiness, headaches, nau-
maintained lYour landlord is required by law to have
sea, breathlessness and ulti-
the gas equipment checked at
mately loss of consciousness.
l There is not sufficient
Because these symptoms are
ventilation in the room
least once a year . Check the date of the
l
so similar to the start of com-
last maintenance visit (It should be
mon illnesses such as a cold,
l Your chimney flue gets clearly displayed on a sticker attached to
many victims succumb to sleep,
blocked up, or the appliance). Insist that your landlord
hoping to wake refreshed, most
complies with the law. When in doubt,
l You allow unqualified
often with tragic consequences. people to install
contact your local Health and Safety
While it is your landlord’s or maintain your
executive branch office.
responsibility to check and appliance.
lRemember, your life could literally
l Durham Death House: The rented accommodation that Anne
maintain them, many students
Brennan, a second year English student, was gassed to death in. depend on it.
don’t bother to check gas cre-
dentials before starting a ten-
home when they became sus- was found later that the second preventing ventilation to the call your landlord and the
ancy. You should check that all
picious that their house was hand boiler would leak CO dur- boiler. As well as not being National Grid Gas Emergency
gas appliances, such as your
making them ill. Simon Glew, ing certain weather conditions. properly ventilated, the boiler line on 0800 111 999.
boiler or cooker have been fully
from Nottinghamshire Fire and Brennan's landlord was suc- wasn’t installed properly and Make sure you ask your
editorial
serviced by a Gas Safe Register
Rescue Service, said the group cessfully prosecuted by the had not been inspected in the landlord about the safety of the
engineer in the past 12 months.
had a lucky escape. Health and Safety Executive previous 12 months. Both the gas appliances, information he
The problem occurs when
Others are not so lucky. In and was fined £10,000. landlord and gas fitter were should have to hand. A copy of
gas does not burn properly and
1997 Anne Brennan, a second Sonja Hyams, was studying jailed, convicted of manslaugh- the last inspection and safety
the toxic carbon monoxide is
year English student, died in at the University of Keele and ter. certificate should be displayed
released.
her bed at her rented house on sharing a rented property with If you experience what you and if you’re still worried, ask
On October 21 2009 six
Flass Street, Durham. Her four other students. CO fumes think are the symptoms of car- your landlord to fit a carbon
Nottingham students were
room had been directly above overcame her after heavy bon monoxide poisoning open monoxide alarm. Gas safety is
evacuated from their Lenton
the boiler in the basement. It snowfall had blocked the flume all the doors and windows and the law, there to protect you.
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