What would you be doing if following these.....

[classic33]

.......these instructions
1] Vacate the room and ventilate it for at least 15 minutes, Turn off the heating and/or air conditioning.
2] Do not use a vacuum cleaner, but clean up using protective rubber gloves & aim to avoid creating &
inhaling airborne particles. Leave the windows open during clean-up
3] Sweep up all the broken fragments, placing them in a hermetically-sealable bag.
4] Wipe the area with a damp cloth, placing that in the bag as well. Seal shut & place this bag inside
another similar bag, sealing that one shut as well.
5] Do not dispose of the bags in your houshold waste.
6] Finally wash hands & shoes thoroughly.

 

[Dangermouse]

Sounds like something from a nuclear disaster movie, but I would say cleaning up after a broken striplight bulb breakage

 

[Dangermouse]

Someone had a flatulence problem?

I hope you are not speaking from experience

 

[Octet]

I agree with Dangermouse, one of those new energy saving (mercury) light bulbs or strip light style bulbs.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Yes, cleaning up after a glass/ mercury breakage.
A bulb, or a thermometer?
Health and safety risk training at his best

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

You was trying to kill a fly?

 

[rikki]

Broken fluoro tubes.

Recommended procedure but I've never seen anyone actually do it.

I looked it up a few weeks ago.

 

[ASC1951]

Yes, cleaning up after a glass/ mercury breakage.

When I were a lad the chemmy teacher used to let us roll blobs of it around in our hands ....

 

[clarion]

And there's a cautionary tale.

 

[vernon]

When I were a lad the chemmy teacher used to let us roll blobs of it around in our hands ....

We used to salvage the minicule blobs of mercury from broken thermometers trapped in the cracks and woodgrain of the lab bench tops and stored it in BIC pen tops for transportation.

How things have changed:

• Mercury free thermometers for general purpose use in school labs
• Evacuation of a lab should a mercury thermometer break
• Dusting the breakage zone with flowers of sulphur to deactivate the mercury
• BIC pen tops have a modified design with the end chopped off to prevent them asphyxiating anyone foolish enough to inhale one.

I wonder which of the two, mercury or BIC pens, killed the most people.

 

[biggs682]

picking up a broken new style light bulb is my thought

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I agree, it's cleaning up after a broken fluorescent tube/bulb. It's not just the small amount of mercury that's the issue, the phosphors used are quite unpleasant too I believe.

 

[Beebo]

I remember playing in door football at school, and smashing the strip lights in the class room.

The game stopped for about 5 seconds whilst the biggest bits of glass were moved to the side, before play resumed with all players covered in white powder. To the best of my knowledge all participants are still alive.

 

[Octet]

We had someone smash one in our old social area, I think the implosion followed by the explosion is more dangerous then anything else. Especially if you are standing close to it when it happens.

Ironically it was with a football as well... who knew they could be so dangerous

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Is it the instructions on a Pot Noodle?