Lanny, have you had a look at the safety protocol suggested by Nathan Johnson? It is available on the legacy website of PCIA on the bottom of the page http://www.pciaonline.org/testing. It actually operationalizes most of the issues you are raising. regards Christa Am 12.03.2013 um 20:45 schrieb Lanny Henson <[email protected]>:
> I need liability insurance for an institutional size wood cooking stove that > I would like to market in the USA as well as outside the USA. > > I need a list of stove hazards, problems and solutions for a presentation to > an insurance underwriter. > > Is anyone else working on this? I have started a list and I would appreciate > your input and comments. > > Lanny Henson > > Hazards for Institutional Biomass Cooking Stoves > > Hot surfaces that can cause burns > Cook space air pollution > Tip over > Bump spill not steady footing > Hot handles > Over fire run away fire, out of control fire (batch burners) > Hot coals spill out, roll out or puff out igniting combustibles. > Flame containment, not enough distance to combustibles. > Hot stove surfaces, not enough distance to combustibles. > Structural integrity, falls apart, burns up, door fails, legs breaks off > Sharp edges that can cut or scrape > Sparks out the exhaust that could ignite combustibles > Volume of fuel in a batch could be a factor. example 12 kg of wood in a wood > space heater verses 1 kg of wood in a cook stove. 12 kg has the potential to > do more harm than 1 kg. > Pot spill from difficult access. Like lifting a pot from a sunken pot stove. > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ >
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