Ohio bill requires carbon monxide detectors in schools

By Maggie Thurber | for Ohio Watchdog

Carbon monoxide detectors may be coming to a school near you.

State Sen. Jim Hughes has introduced S.B. 162 that would require any school — public or private school — to install carbon monoxide detectors in every building. It would also require the state fire marshal and Board of Building Standard to write rules for the location, product and installation standards, and conduct periodic inspections of the devices.

Hughes said the periodic inspections could be done in conjunction with other regularly scheduled inspections of the schools so there would be little or no additional cost for the inspection requirement.

And at an average price of $40 for a detector, it would, he said, “make our schools safer at a small financial cost.”

But local school districts might debate Hughes’ definition of “small.”

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