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An electrician had to be coached through identifying and isolating a gas leak on a Cook Strait ferry, found an investigation which discovered a trail of systemic training and emergency planning failures.
The gas leak was smelled while the LPG tanks were on the Aratere ferry, but wasn t located until they were unloaded in Picton.
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The workplace safety regulator WorkSafe found that there appears to be a systemic failure from the major power company Genesis Energy in transporting the highly flammable LPG.
It identified poor training and poor emergency planning, and said Genesis was using workers who were not properly trained or supervised to fill the LPG tanks.
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