The OSHA standards lay out precautions for hot work and reference the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) 51B Standard for Fire Prevention During Welding, Cutting and Other Hot Work for more detail about these precautions. This course is based on the OSHA standards and NFPA code, but your institution may have its own rules, and because your insurance company and local Fire Marshal have something to say about fire prevention it’s quite likely that your company’s procedures will be more stringent than the minimum requirements of the standards we’ll discuss.