“…CO is a very real danger, and CO alarms should be in hotel rooms,” says Stephen Thom, a University of Maryland professor of emergency medicine and a CO specialist. “CO incidents happen in every major city regularly, and people only pay attention to the need for CO detectors when there is a tragedy…”
New international building and fire codes that will be published this summer may provide hotel guests less protection from deadly carbon monoxide.
The 2015 codes eliminate a 2012 requirement that required a CO alarm in each guest room or a detection system in all common areas, according to Michael O’Brian, a member of an International Code Council committee that recommended the new codes.
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