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Owners handbook 2022
Coachman Caravan Company Limited, Amsterdam Road, Sutton Fields Industrial Estate, Hull, HU7 0XF
35ppm The maximum allowable
concentration for continuous
exposure for healthy adults in
any 8 hour period, as
recommended by the
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA).
200ppm Slight headache, fatigue,
dizziness, nausea after
2-3 hours.
400ppm Frontal headaches within 1-2
hours, life threatening after
3 hours.
800ppm Dizziness, nausea and
convulsions within 45 minutes.
Unconsciousness within 2
hours. Death within 2-3 hours.
Should you suspect CO may be aecting
you and your family, open the doors and
windows of your caravan to ventilate,
turn o your appliances and evacuate
the caravan. At this time the authorities
should be contacted to locate the source
of the carbon monoxide before re-
entering the caravan. Medical attention
should be sought for anyone suering
the eects of CO poisoning.
Common sources of CO
• Oil and gas boilers
• Portable generators
• Oil or solid fuel cookers
• Gas or parain heaters
• Barbecues
• Clogged chimneys
• Wood or gas fireplaces
• Cigarette smoke
• Gas appliances
• Any fossil fuel burning appliance
ALWAYS
• Buy appliances accepted by a
recognised testing laboratory.
• Install appliances according to the
Warning
This FireAngel carbon monoxide
detector is not a combustible gas
detector, nor a smoke detector.
Do not use this carbon monoxide
detector on an intermittent basis, or
as a portable detector for trying to
trace one source of the spillage of
combustion products from fuelburning
appliances or from chimneys.
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Warning
DO NOT:
• IGNORE ANY WARNING FROM
YOUR CO DETECTOR!
• Burn charcoal inside your home,
caravan, tent or cabin.
• Install, convert or service fuelburning
appliances without proper knowledge,
skill and expertise.
• Use a gas cooker for heating a room.
• Operate unvented gas burning
appliances using parain or natural
gas in closed rooms.
• Operate petrol-powered engines
indoors or in confined areas.
• Barbecue indoors, or in an attached
garage.
• Ignore a safety device when it shuts
an appliance o.
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