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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1991

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BREN

"THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT (BPD) HAS CARRYING OUT WHAT ARE KNOWN AS 'MONTHLY BENZENE IN AMBIENT AIR MEASUREMENTS' AS PART OF THEIR AIR POLLUTION MONITORING PROGRAMME.

"THE MEASURED LEVELS AVERAGE AROUND 10 MICROGRAMMES PER CUBIC METRE, AND IS NOT A CAUSE FOR CONCERN. THIS IS, FOR EXAMPLE, ONLY ABOUT ONE-TENTH OF THE NEW YORK STATE AMBIENT AIR STANDARD, HE SAID.

MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT BOTH UNLEADED PETROL AND LEADED PETROL CONTAINED BENZENE.

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THE OIL COMPANIES HAVE AGREED TO MAINTAIN BENZENE LEVELS IN UNLEADED PETROL AT THE SAMB LEVEL AS THAT WHICH LEADED PETROL CONTAINED BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF UNLEADED PETROL

WHICH RANGED FROM ONE PER CENT TO THREE PER CENT.

SAID.

"THE RELEVANT BRITISH STANDARD LIMIT 19 FIVE PER CENT,' HE

MR BARNES SAID THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD SUPPLY THE EPD REGULARLY WITH DATA ON THEIR SHIPMENTS INCLUDING THE CONTENT OF BENZENE IN UNLEADED PETROL.

"THE EPD WILL ALSO CARRY OUT SPOT CHECKS ON BENZENE LEVELS PART OF THEIR UNLEADED PETROL ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMME, HE ADDED.

AS

H+

GOVT EXAMINES NEED FOR PARAMEDICAL SERVICES ON AMBULANCES

ITS

ON

A GOVERNMENT ADVISORY GROUP HAS JUST SUBMITTED RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE NEED FOR OTHER PARAMEDICAL SERVICES AMBULANCES, INCLUDING INTRAVENOUS INJECTION, INTUBATION AND THE

ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS.

SECURITY,

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR ALISTAIR ASPREY, WHEN REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY DR THE IP IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HON

THE HON HENRIETTA

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"THESE ARE NOW BEING

CONSIDERED BY THE

ADMINISTRATION,

MR

ASPREY SAID.

THE ADVISORY GROUP HAD BEEN DESIRABILITY AND FEASIBILITY TRAINING GIVEN TO AMBULANCEMEN.

APPOINTED OF EXTENDING THE

TO EXAMINE RANGE OF

THE

PARAMEDIC

BARLIER MR ASPREY SAID FOLLOWING THE

GROUP,

DEFIBRILLATORS THE USE OF ADVISORY INTRODUCED ON A PILOT BASIS IN JANUARY THIS YEAR.

THAT

RECOMMENDATIONS

OF

ON

AMBULANCES

THE WAS

WERE AMBULANCEMEN

CURRENTLY

MR ASPREY ALSO POINTED OUT NOT TRAINED TO GIVE INTRAVENOUS FLUID REPLACEMENT.

/HE SAID