kerry davies

Yet another industry figure saying that the qualifications are fine but the level of skills and understanding is abysmal.

If someone cannot follow simple instructions when applying for an events technician post how do they expect to actually follow instructions when they are doing the job?

Mind you, on seeing the ad I thought; "Oh dear, he'll get every idiot in the valleys applying." Bit like Floyd advertising for "roadies", it's that high profile.

I thought you had apprentices down there. None of them any good for the post?

Andrew, #9 in this topic gives the link and #19 some of the hazards including benzene.

Simon, quite right that all combustion produces toxic byproducts but if you google benzene law you will find hundreds of US lawyers who specialise in compensation work. The benzene leukemia law blog is quite interesting as well.

I'm not saying using these things is unsafe, just someone please prove the use is safe. If you stick to the letter of the law you need a COSHH RA to use them and nobody yet has come up with one. They look unstable, I wouldn't burn petrol indoors and people just do not know what is in these canisters from China.

When I read here that brake cleaner is good to use and I then see "phosgene gas may be formed on combustion" on a brake cleaner MSDS I become somewhat over-cautious.

I must be missing something here, will the guys using these canisters on shows please enlighten me?

Has anyone got a translation of a MSDS for this substance?

Anyone care to share their COSHH risk assessment?

Does it produce phosgene gas when burned as do some brake cleaning fluids? Like Wynns down under, David.

Does it contain the carcinogen benzene?

Which form of the dozens of substances called naphtha are you igniting?

What is the propellant in this stuff?

You must have found out the answers to all these questions before burning it in any enclosed public space, so please share your knowledge with me. I'm not surprised that Clive cannot find it in the UK, must be a reason?

Just like topic 40931 #34 I am not saying it is dangerous but I don't know and, I submit, neither do you.

http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?show...40931&st=30 and please don't let me go all pedantic again.

BTW did yours arrive as one Chinese maker offers, with "fright case"? Freudian?