I’ve copied this post from a HVAC professionals’ discussion forum. Please take the time to read this post. My industry is being taken the wrong direction by some with good intentions. However, they are forcing compliance to an inadequate standard. This post has been republished with permission from David Richardson. David is an expert in carbon monoxide and appliance safety.

House Bill H.R.1796 Residential Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act

This bill is one that could have a severe impact on the services we are allowed to provide our customers in regards to CO safety.

If this bill is passed it will prohibit those of us who provide higher levels of CO safety to our clients to do so by means of providing low level CO monitors that exceed the current UL 2034 standards.

If this doesn’t scare you it should as we will be forced to provide a substandard product to our clients that does not provide true protection for all ages and medical conditions.

According to the bill all CO alarms must meet the UL 2034 standard or they will be deemed illegal devices.

For those unfamiliar with the UL 2034 standard it provides no true protection levels for the elderly, infants, or those with medical conditions. (Here’s a website that explains in detail the limitations of UL2034: http://www.coexperts.com/.)

There are currently two low level CO monitors that provide true protection from CO at low levels that being the NSI 3000 and CO Experts monitors.

If you provide these monitors to your clients as a means of protection they will become illegal if this bill is passed!

Two links to look at for reference to this bill are:

http://www.appliancemagazine.com/new…zone=0&first=1

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquer…:@@@D&summ2=m&

The gentleman who needs to hear from those of us who are concerned about this bill is dswitzer@cpsc.gov.

Anything you can do to help prevent this from happening is critical and needs to happen quickly.

Please post any questions and comments in regards to this and take action if you truly want to make a positive impact in regards to CO poisoning.

Anyone that reads this information should be gravely concerned with the ramifications of HR1796 (S1216). We are sending CO detection backward instead of forward.