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Fuel Safety Awareness
We all need fire to cook food, heat the home, wash the cloths and bed sheets and much more, but what we use to fuel the fire causes the loss of thousands of lives because many people just don't know how to handle commonly used fuels properly. Fuel safety awareness is one of the most essential things you and your family need to know in order to avoid tragedy. House fires and fires in the workplace cost many thousands of lives each and every year, cause untold pain and suffering and destroy billions of dollars worth of property and assets. Even more tragic is that most of these fires are preventable if some simple, standard fuel safety precautions are taken.
On a global basis, the most prevalent causes of house fires and workplace fires are the careless, negligent and ignorant use and storage of fuels used for cooking, heating and industrial purposes.
This is even more so in parts of the world where reliable electricity supplies and mains gas are not available, causing the population to rely on fuel sources such as Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), kerosene (also known as paraffin), wood, dried animal dung, oil from animals such as whales and seals and other forms of fuels distilled from crude oil, coal and shale. Of the different fuel sources, LPG has rapidly become a popular and important part of the everyday lives of many people around the world. LPG burns readily in normal atmospheric air and has energy content similar to petrol. When LPG is compressed at approximately 800 kPa, or 120 psi, it changes from a gaseous state to a liquid and become denser by a factor of approximately 270 times - one (1) liter of LPG in its liquid state is equal to about 270 liters of LPG vapor. LPG is also one of the cleanest burning fuels, being around 30 to 50 percent cleaner than other commonly used fuels.
These qualities make it an inexpensive and very efficient and effective fuel which can be easily packaged and transported, which is what makes it so popular.
However, the very properties which make LPG an effective, efficient and inexpensive fuel also make it extremely dangerous if mishandled and misused. Whilst all fuels are a fire hazard, few others have the same energy content or ignite as easily. Like petrol fumes, LPG fumes have a far greater potential to explode on ignition (as opposed to just burning), particularly when condensed in a confined area, and in quantities far less than is required for most other fuels to do the same.
Whilst all fire is dangerous and has the very real potential to take lives, slow starting and low intensity fires give occupants a far greater chance of survival than do high intensity fires, particularly when ignited by an explosion. Despite its rapidly rising popularity, most people are still unaware of how to use LPG properly and how to maintain the equipment that stores and uses the gas, resulting in an alarming increase in the number of LPG related accidents, such as gas leakages and subsequent explosions and fires.
Further, the information and guidelines put out by many government agencies and LPG suppliers around the world do not cover the whole spectrum of safe LPG usage and storage.
This, in part, is due to lack of funds and resources in many instances, limiting the ability of the agencies and suppliers to communicate the necessary safety information to their population and users respectively. Even in much of the so called developed world there are still too many people who disregard safety warnings, campaigns and directions in the belief nothing bad will ever happen to them. They even disregard media reporting of LPG related tragedies, again dismissing them as something that will only ever happen to someone else.
It's this neglect and complacency which ultimately causes the loss of dear ones, neighbors, work colleagues and the heavy loss of property. Safety warnings, campaigns and directions are made for a very good reason - LPG and other fuels used for domestic and commercial uses are lethally dangerous. You will never truly improve your security if you disregard the simple preventative steps that should be taken when using and storing common fuels around the home and in the workplace.
Don't let you or your family be the next news headlines. Prevention is always better than cure.USE GAS SAFE FUSE WITH EACH CYLINDER.





