The Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) is re­mind­ing the pub­lic of crit­i­cal safe­ty steps to fol­low when han­dling LPG cylin­ders, fol­low­ing re­ports of an ex­plo­sion that re­sult­ed in the death of Ria George.

In ex­press­ing con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, NP ad­vised that once a cylin­der en­ters a cus­tomer’s busi­ness or res­i­den­tial re­mind a soapy wa­ter test should be per­formed at the con­nec­tions be­tween the reg­u­la­tor and the valve, the reg­u­la­tor and the hose and the hose and the stove, be­fore its use. NP fur­ther ad­vised cus­tomers that if a gas leak is sus­pect­ed, im­me­di­ate­ly dis­con­nect the c

NP not­ed that cus­tomers should re­port any is­sues or con­cerns re­lat­ed to LPG cylin­ders to the rel­e­vant dis­trib­u­tor or re­tail­er from which the cylin­der was sourced.

For fur­ther as­sis­tance, cus­tomers could con­tact NP through var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels, in­clud­ing its hot­line: 800-NPMC (6762); What­sApp: (868) 686-NPMC (6762) and email: cus­tomer ser­vice@np.co.tt, which can all be found on NP’s web­site -www.np.co.tt. The com­pa­ny em­pha­sizes that safe­ty is of para­mount im­por­tance, and it re­mains com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing that be­fore dis­tri­b­u­tion, all LPG cylin­ders are safe for use by cus­tomers.

George’s fu­ner­al has not yet been fi­nalised as an au­top­sy is still pend­ing. The 47-year-old woman suf­fered burns fol­low­ing an ex­plo­sion in her kitchen al­leged­ly caused by a leak­ing NP cylin­der, al­most two months ago. She died at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sat­ur­day.