1 Avoid danger of explosion
Ventilate room
3Check for leak
4 Summon help
GAS LEAKS
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IF YOU SUSPECT A GAS LEAK
1 Avoid danger of explosion
• As soon as you smell gas, or if you suspect that a gas appliance is leaking but you cannot smell anything, immediately extinguish any flames, such as cigarettes or candles.
• Switch off any electric fires.
• Do not touch any other electrical appliances, including light switches. Operating anything electrical could create a spark that could ignite a concentration of gas.
2
Ventilate room
• If you find a gas jet left on, turn it off immediately. Open windows and any external doors.
! Carbon monoxide alert
• Carbon monoxide detectors either set off alarms or they change color when they
sense the presence of the gas in the air. These detectors should be installed near boilers or other appliances using gas, such as gas stoves.
DO’ S AND DON’ TS
DO
• Extinguish any flames and cigarettes.
• Ventilate the room.
• Check gas appliances and pilot lights.
• Turn off the gas supply at the main or on the gas cylinder.
DON’ T
• Turn on any lights or electrical appliances.
• Use your home or cellular telephone
until you are outside.
• Forget to relight pilot lights once the leak
has been fixed.
3Check for leak
• Check all gas appliances and turn off the gas supply at the main( next to the meter) or on the gas cylinder for bottled gas.
• Send family members outside until the smell of gas has disappeared.
4 Summon help
• If you cannot identify the source of the leak, or can identify it but realize you should not attempt to fix it, evacuate the home.
• Call your regional gas supplier’ s emergency number from outside your house.
• Keep the family out of the home until the gas company advises you that the danger has passed.
• Warn neighbors that you have detected a gas leak.
• Once repairs are complete, do not forget to relight all the pilot lights in the house.
• When the siren sounds or the detector changes color, ventilate the room by opening
external doors and windows.
• Switch off the leaking appliance( or turn off the gas at the main if you are unsure of the
source). Call a professional to repair it.