According to the NPA, the public should desist from repairing damaged hoses and rubber seals by themselves.
The Authority implored gas users to rather take the cylinders to nearest LPG dealers for a safety check and replacement of the worn out hoses and seals.
“Additionally, hoses should be secured with proper hose clips.
Consumer Services Manager of NPA, Eunice Budu-Nyarko gave the advise when the NPA team from the Corporate Affairs and Gas Directorates conducted sensitization campaign through one-on-one engagements with traders, market women, drivers, durbars and radio interviews.
She made the call at LPG awareness and sensitization campaign durbars in the Upper West, Savannah, Bono East, Bono and Ahafo regions. “The hoses serve as the gas distribution line between the cylinder and the cooker,” she said.
The LPG awareness and sensitization campaign conducted in collaboration with Lyme Haus Solutions and the Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service (GNFRS) was aimed at creating awareness among consumers on the need to switch from firewood and charcoal to LPG usage.
Mrs Budu Nyarko urged the public to keep liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders outside the kitchen to prevent explosion and resultant injury, death and property damage.
She said the cylinders should be placed on wooden platforms with roofs to prevent the cylinder foot ring from getting rusted or damaged from direct sunlight, rain and tampering.
For his part, the NPA Communications Manager, Mohammed Abdul-Kudus, who welcomed the people on behalf of the NPA Chief Executive, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, noted that in Europe and America the people use gas for all their domestic activities, but they barely record accidents.
Therefore, he said, if people observed the LPG safety requirements, they would not experience any accidents.
Mr. Abdul-Kudus stressed that LPG was the most convenient, safe and fast fuel for cooking.
He said medical experts had indicated that heat and smoke from charcoal and firewood posed long term health complications, such as respiratory conditions.
The NPA Communications Manager, therefore, urged the people to switch from wood fuel to LPG to avoid the health challenges associated with the use of charcoal and firewood.
In his presentation in Sunyani, the NPA Bono Regional Manager, Kwadwo Odarno Appiah, cautioned motorists to switch off the engines of their vehicles when buying fuel.
He also asked the public to desist from using mobile phones while at a fuel station to prevent explosions.
A safety officer with the Bono Regional office of the GNFRS, ADOII Emmanuel Kyeremeh, urged the public to keep fire extinguishers in their homes and vehicles to fight fires and also reach out to fire stations for assistance.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
The figure rose on yearly basis hitting about 419,145 in 2012.
However, in 2013, upon the full enforcement of the L.I. 1932 (2008), the figure dropped to 158,699 in 2013 and drastically reduced to 3,944 in 2020.
According to Edwin Kwasi Tamakloe, looking at the consistent increases in the smuggling of used obsolete and inefficient refrigerators into the country, the passage of the LI 1932 prohibited 4.2 million refrigerators from coming into the country between 2013 and 2020.
This, he said, has also resulted in total savings of 5,062 gigawatts hour (GWh) of electricity (about half of the Thermal generation in 2018).
He revealed that since the enforcement of the ban on used obsolete and inefficient refrigerators, 46,660 used and 11,003 used RACs had been confiscated.
Touching on the transformation that has taken place in the refrigerator market since the ban on used refrigerators, he noted that the enforcement of the L.I. 1958 (2009), which sets Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for refrigerators in the country, has been a huge success.
Therefore, the regulation has been revised to be relevant to technological change since its passage in 2009.
He noted that the importation of energy-efficient refrigerators has witnessed consistent growth from below 30,000 to over 600,000 in 2021.
According to him, about 3.74 million new refrigerators have been imported into the country since 2006.
