ppm Symptoms and Applicable Standards
0-1
Normal background levels
9
Maximum indoor air quality level:
Maximum allowable concentration
per ASHRAE Residential Standards
62-1989 for living area.
25
Maximum limit 8 hours of continuous
exposure per California OSHA
workplace standards
35
Maximum 8 hours average exposure
level per US OSHA workplace
standards
50
Maximum concentration for
continuous exposure for any 8 hours
average level per OSHA standards
100
Evacuate employees from continuous
exposure in any 8 hour average level
per OSHA standards.
200
Mild headache, fatigue, nausea, and
dizziness within 2-3 hours
400
Frontal headache, life threatening
after 3 hours. Maximum
concentration in flue gas per the US
EPA and AGA standards
800
Dizziness, nausea, convulsions, death
within 2-3 hours
1600
Nausea within 20 minutes, death
within 2-3 hours.
25
CO LEVELS