1. Before turning on a gas burner or cooker, light the match or press the ignition button. If the burner will not light, turn off the gas supply immediately and wait for the gas smell to clear before trying again.
2. Ensure that your cooker, burner or regulator is turned off when you leave the house or go to sleep.
3. Make sure that you DO NOT turn the gas on to maximum before igniting it.
4. All pilot lights or main burners should produce blue flame. If the flame is yellow or red you should call the manufacturer or a licensed gas fitter. Red or yellow flame by your cooker or burner is an indication of incomplete combustion, meaning that gas is being released without undergoing combustion/burning.
5. If you get a headache or begin feeling sick or drowsy while using your gas appliance, turn it off. Then get it checked by a licensed/qualified person. This is an indication that there could be incomplete combustion. In this case some of the gas escapes un-burnt and when inhaled causes anesthesia (feeling drowsy, headaches).
6. Spray aerosols (such as insecticides) should not be operated near gas appliances. The flammable gas in aerosols can be a fire hazard.
7. Safety valves and other fittings on gas appliances should not be tampered with. This means that you should not use excessive force to open or close gas control knobs.
8. Your oven and hot plates should be cleaned regularly to ensure that there is no buildup of spoiled fats or burnt foods as these could be flammable.
9. Ensure that all gas appliances are serviced regularly by qualified persons
10. If you are looking for a gas leak, DO NOT try to find it with a naked flame – cigarette lighter, matches, candles, oil lamps, etc.
11. Do not throw filled cylinders down from a height. Handle with care.
12. Do not allow children or untrained persons to tamper with gas appliances.

REMEMBER, LPG IS A GOOD SERVANT BUT A BAD MASTER.

1. LPG is the acronym for Liquefied Petroleum Gas.
2. LPG is a colourless, odourless gas, which is highly inflammable. In order to detect releases of LPG from equipment and storage cylinders it has been given a distinctive odour.
3. Because LPG is highly inflammable (flammability limits is 2% to 10% by volume in air), there should be no ignition sources near areas where LPG is stored.
4. In Ghana LPG is a mixture of Propane and Butane (20% Propane & 80% Butane).
5. LPG is heavier than air. It is therefore difficult to disperse and should never be used or stored below ground level as this could result in suffocation when released in a confined space.
6. Liquid LPG is about half the weight of water and therefore floats on top of water
7. LPG is stored in cylinders under pressures approximately 7 bars (100 psi) as a liquid. It changes to gas when released into the atmosphere at room/ambient temperature.
8. One volume of liquid LPG will produce approximately 250 volumes of gas when vapourised.
9. When LPG burns it combines with air to produce carbon dioxide and water vapour. However if there is inadequate air and/or ventilation, or poor mixing of the air and gas, toxic carbon monoxide gas can be produced. As a result it is therefore necessary to open the kitchen windows when cooking to allow for complete combustion
10. For every litre of liquid LPG burnt, approximately over one litre of water vapour is produced.
11. Liquid LPG freezes on contact with skin due to the rapid loss of heat caused by liquid vaporization. This results in cold burns.
12. It acts as a solvent on certain petroleum and natural rubber compounds. So hoses have to be of special resistant materials in order to prevent reaction with the LPG.
13. ‘Empty’ cylinders are still dangerous because they are NOT empty. There is still a residual amount of gas inside an ‘empty’ cylinder which can ignite and produce an explosion.