A Must read "Could save ya life"

[Diezel Weazel]

Please check this out Guys n Gals
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

There's always a Payback .... Don't know where n ya won't know when tho !!!!

[stormforce]

good find Jess
we all take it for granted on stuff we use and don't bother reading the warnings.
It's when things like this get put on a public forum/ internet that you stop and think

[JUDWAK]

i messed around with stuff to do that
ya would never beleave what ya can do with a few house hold cleaners
industrial chemicals are easyer to use but house hold stuff is just has deadly

[Scorpion]

To be honest the bloke only has himself to blame for the severity of poisoning. If I had read what sort of gasses I had inhaled and suffered the symtoms he felt in the first few hours I would have been off to the hospital like a scalded cat!

[JUDWAK]

batterys give off a toxic gas too when thery are on charge

[stormforce]

To be honest the bloke only has himself to blame for the severity of poisoning. If I had read what sort of gasses I had inhaled and suffered the symtoms he felt in the first few hours I would have been off to the hospital like a scalded cat!

thats very true,he should of got medical advice asap instead of sitting at the computer reading up on the effects.Especially to wait over a week before going to the A&E.
Part from the above it does pay to read the warnings on the bottles,cans etc and if we don't then it is our own fault if we get ill by any effects from it

[stormforce]

batterys give off a toxic gas too when thery are on charge

Biohazzard always gives off a toxic gas and he's never on charge......

[JUDWAK]

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[stormforce]

And if matey had Biohazzard around him he would of felt those effects he got within a few minuits lmao

[KERRSURF]

It's funny how all chemicals used in industry are regulated and registered COSHH.
But household stuff and other over the counter stuff can be just as deadly.

[Bogus]

In the "olden" days, when I was a lad, you got fire extinguishers with Carbon Tet in them. Once it was realised that throwing this on a fire could create phosgene, I think they vanished off the scene. Phosgene was used by the Germans during WW1. Nasty Stuff indeed. I think it combines with water in the body to make hydrochloric acid , or an acid of some kind, and a gas, either C0 or C02.
I know COSHH and MSDS sheets can lean towards boring, but theres a lesson here for sure.

Bogus

[Albannach]

I very quickly read COSHH Certs, but I always read the MSDS very carefully, just in case the COSHH assessor has missed something!

The story here is a prime example of the need to use the right tool for the right job.

For those that don't know:

COSHH - Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheets (one of the things the COSHH assessment uses)

[Bogus]

It's funny how all chemicals used in industry are regulated and registered COSHH.
But household stuff and other over the counter stuff can be just as deadly.

I think the reason for that, is,that in the workplace, your employer can be held accountable ( i.e sued, punished) and while no employer wants to hurt you,that is mainly because of the consequences to them.

Having said that, in industries where " household" products are used, you will find generic MSDS sheets and COSSH appraisals around. Offshore caterers will have all that in place for floor cleaners, lavvy duck/ soap powder etc. Id guess hotels do the same.

Bogus

[sumo]

When I was driving a truck I used to collect 2 ingreadents for a well know cough medicene, one was highly inflamable and the other was spontainiously combustable when mixed with air above a certain temperture.You were not allowed to go through the dartford tunnel or through london.Yet when mixed together with the rest of the cough medicene ingreadients they are perfectly safe. Makes you wonder what else you swallow in the name of sceince.

[BioHazard]

Biohazzard always gives off a toxic gas and he's never on charge......

Oi i resemble that remark ......... there is a whole section in the COSHH (2002) regs just about me