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4 Gas Monitors are not PPEHard Inconvenient Truths of Using Gas Detection About the speaker Raised and Based in Denver, CO 14 years gas detection experience Sales (Domestic+International) Product Management Marketing

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4 Gas Monitors are not PPE…Hard Inconvenient Truths of Using Gas Detection

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  • Raised and Based in Denver, CO
  • 14 years gas detection experience

– Sales (Domestic+International) – Product Management – Marketing – Support – 3 different companies

  • Prior Mascot Experience

About the speaker

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  • “Inconvenient Truths”

– How people actually interact with their gas detectors – Limitations of technology – Context of manufacture warnings

  • Get you to think differently..

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Agenda

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  • Is annoying
  • Is warning you of a hazardous condition
  • Is a false alarm

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3 Alarms

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  • Relationships with Electronic Devices
  • Input/Output Equation
  • Odds are…

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The Dangerfield Effect

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Gas Detectors are not PPE

  • “Don’t forget your PPE”
  • What exactly do they

PROTECT you from?

  • https://youtu.be/x8FNV

sbnwWE

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PAE Awareness

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A little history on electrochemical sensors...

  • They are an old

technology

  • Flawed by nature of

design and application

  • Why should you

calibrate?

  • Did you know?
  • Avg ~2-5% signal loss*
  • 24 months: 38% loss*
  • 48 months: 62% loss*
  • IN A LAB SETTING!*

– Use in Extreme Environments – Exposure to high concentrations – Jostling impacting components

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  • Study of 2 Million Sensors (Dualsense

Technology White Paper, By: Raghu Arunachalam, Ph.D)

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Bump Testing..Yeah

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Stop wearing Seat Belts!

  • The average American will

file an auto accident claim

  • nce every 6,533.5 days

(17.9 years)*

  • However it is the law to

buckle your seat belt each time…

  • Avg. Alarm is every 10 days..
  • *Property Casualty Insurers Association of America

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  • Just because X occurs doesn’t mean that Y will

happen

  • Ex: Teen Drivers are 3X as likely to be involved

in a car accident* (IIHS HWLDI 2016 Report)

  • Teenager Drives Car Car Accident
  • Bump Testing Daily Longer Lasting Monitor
  • Direct Correlations for types of

results/behavior

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Correlation is not Causation

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“Making the “Gas Detection” Grade”

  • On the bus and…..we

are done!?!

  • What is going on in the

classroom?

  • What grades are they

going to get?

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So what to do with all of that?

  • Counter the erosion
  • Audit your

program/culture (DATALOGS!)

  • “Seek Truth, Speak

Truth”

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