big_white_dog84 said:BBC News link
This strikes me as being a lot of nonsense. I have also been put in a chamber and exposed to CS gas. The whole point of the exercise is that you are able to remove the used canister from your respirator and replace it with a new one. If you do it wrong you get a lungful of nasty CS stuff. I think the sun are barking up the wrong tree here.
Of course if it really is being used as a bullying tool then it's a very different story.
ok, the canister filters out the poisonious gas, so why on earth would you want to remove it? I have been trained in gas mask usage and have never been told that I would need to remove a used canister, while in a contaminated area, and replace it with a fresh one. I would have to be decontaminated, brought out of the area to do anything like that.
I also went through the CS chamber and can say that 65secs is a long time to be exposed to it in an enclosed area.
I am going to go with bullying on this. There is absolutly no reason to expose someone to CS for that long as anyone will get the idea of what CS does on their first breath in. CS is very potent and stating ones name and rank or DOB is enough.
Your supposed to do reguar checks of your mask anyways, to check for things that may be wrong. If your mask is failing than thats because you didnt do the checks right, and IMO they should be training to do the correct checks not how to fix their screw up. And besides, if your going to take your mask off to fix it, you wouldnt want to breath anyways so why the whole 60s, again? I mean, one breath should be all you need and if they cant do it in one breath than the instructor needs to get on to them about that. When I get issued a gas mask, it comes with a little card that has the procedures for checking for a correct fitting and working mask. So even if I happened to forget, i will have the card, which happens to be in the gas mask bag.
It has nothing to do with breeding wussies, its about proper training.
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