4 Gas Monitors are not PPE…Hard 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 – Support – 3 different companies • Prior Mascot Experience
Agenda • “Inconvenient Truths” – How people actually interact with their gas detectors – Limitations of technology – Context of manufacture warnings • Get you to think differently.. 3
3 Alarms • Is annoying • Is warning you of a hazardous condition • Is a false alarm 4
The Dangerfield Effect • Relationships with Electronic Devices • Input/Output Equation • Odds are… 5
Gas Detectors are not PPE • “Don’t forget your PPE” • What exactly do they PROTECT you from? • https://youtu.be/x8FNV sbnwWE PAE Awareness 6
A little history on electrochemical sensors... • Avg ~2-5% signal loss* • They are an old technology • 24 months: 38% loss* • Flawed by nature of • 48 months: 62% loss* design and application • IN A LAB SETTING!* • Why should you – Use in Extreme Environments calibrate? – Exposure to high • Did you know? concentrations – Jostling impacting components
Bump Testing..Yeah • Study of 2 Million Sensors ( Dualsense Technology White Paper , By: Raghu Arunachalam, Ph.D) 8
Stop wearing Seat Belts! • The average American will file an auto accident claim once 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 9
Correlation is not Causation • 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 10
“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?
So what to do with all of that? • Counter the erosion • Audit your program/culture (DATALOGS!) • “Seek Truth, Speak Truth” 12
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