What Chance has Safety?

“Wherever there is danger, there

lurks opportunity;

whenever there is opportunity,

there lurks danger.

The two are inseparable.”

Earl Nightingale (internationally acclaimed speaker. died 1989)

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How many play the Lottery

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How do you use a baseball bat

as

weapon?

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Baseball Bat Weapon

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What is the temperature of liquid

nitrogen?

A. - 120°c

B. - 186°c

C. - 196°c

D. - 206°c

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On entering a 98% nitrogen atmosphere a

person will experience ?

A. Feel no symptoms, fall unconscious after just two

breaths

B. Tight chest, feeling of drowning unconsciousness

in 3 mins

C. Light headedness, choking and gasping

D. Cough uncontrollably, feel a choking sensation and

pass out after 3 mins

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'We hear that... undergraduate stupidity knows no

bounds. In an attempt to impress his or her

classmates, a student took a sip of liquid

nitrogen to prove that it is safe.

It isn't. Within two seconds, the victim had

collapsed in intense pain, unable to breathe and

eventually passed out.

All-night surgery ensued.

From ‘New Scientist’ 27.07.02

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"My entire upper gastrointestinal tract was badly

scarred and perforated," the hapless student

recounts in an anonymous letter to the journal

Chemical Health & Safety (vol. 9, p. 4).

"They took away part of my stomach and had my

entire digestive system, top to bottom, running on

machine power for a while." The expanding gas also

collapsed one lung.

Eight weeks later the student was discharged from

hospital.

A little wiser, we hope.'

From ‘New Scientist’ 27.07.02

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What is the liquid to gas ratio of liquid

nitrogen?

A. 1 to 120

B. 1 to 496

C. 1 to 683

D. 1 to 723

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The volume of gas in this Dewar is approx 12 m³

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Liquid nitrogen pressure test

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Nitrogen Accident: Chef loses hand

14 Jul 2009

A 24 year old chef lost both hands

in a liquid Nitrogen explosion after

attempting to use the cryogen in a

‘molecular cuisine’ recipe.

A team of doctors from the

Emergency hospital at Marzahn,

Germany, operated on Martin E.

for eight hours and have sewed his

left hand back on.

Sahnesiphon

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What is the typical pressures of compressed

gas cylinders (Permanent Gases)

A. 120 bar

B. 150 bar

C. 160 to 190 bar

D. 200 to 230 bar

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The volume of gas in a cylinder is approx 10M³

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The Gas Cylinder Lottery

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Cylinder Construction

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Cylinder Construction

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Cylinder Construction

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CP 27

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The big three …

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The word ‘cryo’ originates from?

A. Latin ‘cryos’ ice waters

B. Northern Germanic ‘Kaltro’ God

of ice and snow

C. ‘Kryo’ Canadian Inuit for sudden

pack ice

D. Greek ‘Kruos’ meaning cold

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The three main gases in air by volume are?

A. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

B. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon

C. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen

D. Oxygen, Helium, Carbon Dioxide

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78 % Nitrogen

21 % Oxygen

0.93 % Argon

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The temperature of Dry Ice (solid CO2) is?

A. - 28°C

B. - 78°C

C. - 108°C

D. - 118°C

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A Birmingham radio station has been fined

£15,000 after four people were left with severe

frostbite after a competition stunt went wrong.

BRMB challenged contestants to sit on blocks of

dry ice - carbon dioxide frozen at temperatures of

-78C - to win tickets and back stage passes for a

music festival in the city.

Two women and a man spent about 10 weeks in

hospital recovering from extensive skin grafts,

which they had to undergo following the Coolest

Seats in Town event

Dry Ice – incident Friday, 24 January, 2003

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Cryogenic incident Lottery

Fire crews were called to deal with

the cryogenic spillage

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Edinburgh General Hospital

Fire crews were called to

deal with the spillage

‘Inquiry after man dies in chemical leak’

Full scale chemical incident

Liquid Nitrogen spillage

4 people affected

BA and chemical suits

Asphyxiant

Knew danger but attempted

rescue

No oxygen

Knew danger but attempted

rescue

Used it daily years of experience

Building evacuated

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future and yours?

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