At the request of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers evaluated carbon monoxide (CO) exposures on 16 recreational boats on Lake Norman, North Carolina. The boats were propelled by gasoline-powered engines; the cabin cruisers also used gasoline-powered generators to provide electricity. This study was performed for the USCG to better understand how CO poisoning can occur on recreational boats and to identify the most hazardous conditions. Exposures to high CO concentrations on recreational boats are the result of many factors; including an individual's location; type and make of boat; relative wind speed and direction; engine size and design; and the influence U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations have had on engine design.
Carbon Monoxide Emissions and Exposures on Recreational Boats Under Various Operating Conditions (Lake Norman, NC.)
2003
76 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Air Pollution & Control , Environmental Health & Safety , Marine Engineering , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Carbon moxide poisoning , Exhaust emissions , Gasoline engines , Recreational boats , Occupational safety and health , Electric power generation , Environmental exposure , Epidemiology , Investigation , Environmental monitoring , Cabin cruisers , Air sampling , Recommendations , Concentrations , Operating conditions , Gasoline-powered generators , Gasoline-powered engines , Lake Norman(North Carolina)
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