Posted By Paul Duell Hi All Sorry this isn't a Friday Thread even though it's Friday...but I've had an incident where a small number of office staff had a short term exposure to diesel fume (landlord testing emergency genny too close to aircon intake). One of the affected employees has reported severe nausea, and actually being sick later the same day (four or five hours after removal from exposure). I've had a look at the HSE leaflet on diesel fumes and it doesn't look as if this would be one of the expected reactions to a short term one-off exposure. Does anyone have experience of similar occurrences? I used to look after an HGV workshop where there were occasional heavy exposures to diesel fume (before we installed the extractors!) and I've never come across it before, but I'm open to guidance. Cheers all Paul

Posted By Mitch Paul, Suggest you/landlord have exhaust re-routed (upward above building) if it's that close to an air intake, bad design/installation. Mitch

Posted By Renny Thomson I personally have suffered nausea and vomiting after the inhalation of diesel exhaust gases. Mind you, the root cause may have been the large bag of (Dutch) liquorice that I had consumed earlier that afternoon before we set sail.