Most households in South East Wales are not testing their carbon monoxide alarms, putting lives at risk.<\/p>\n
New data from the Carbon Monoxide Research and Analysis (CORA) platform, supported by Wales & West Utilities, Cadent, Northern Gas Networks, and SGN, revealed that 95 per cent of carbon monoxide alarms went untested in 2024.<\/p>\n
This data was gathered from more than 50,000 digital alarms and suggests that many households could be unknowingly exposed to danger.<\/p>\n
Carbon monoxide, known as the ‘silent killer’, cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted, making it especially hazardous.<\/p>\n
Sophie Shorney, vulnerability and carbon monoxide allowance manager at Wales & West Utilities, said: “It is concerning to hear that most households are not testing their carbon monoxide alarms.<\/p>\n
“We cannot stress enough the dangers households could be putting themselves into if they either do not own a carbon monoxide alarm or are not testing to see if their alarm works.<\/p>\n
“A simple action of pressing a button for a couple of seconds could save your life.”<\/p>\n
Carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms such as headaches, nausea, dizziness, and breathlessness are easily mistaken for less serious conditions.<\/p>\n
While carbon monoxide is often associated with winter, gas cookers, boilers, and portable appliances like barbecues and camping stoves pose a risk year-round.<\/p>\n
With school holidays underway, families are being urged to test their alarms at home and while travelling.<\/p>\n
Wales & West Utilities offers free CO alarms to eligible households through its Vulnerability Carbon Monoxide Allowance (VCMA) programmes, which are funded by Ofgem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most households in South East Wales are not testing their carbon monoxide alarms, putting lives at risk. New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,3902,4884,125448,78096,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-355827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-carbon-monoxide","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-northern-gas-networks","12":"tag-south-east-wales","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115053405742720239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}