The purpose of this Hot Work Permit Program is to outline minimum procedures, training, equipment, and work practices to help prevent adverse incidents to UW personnel, students, faculty, visitors, ...

Hot work operations include welding, brazing, torch cutting, grinding, and torch soldering. These operations create heat, sparks, and hot slag that have the potential to ignite flammable and ...

Many will recognize that quote as belonging to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but the words just as easily could have been spoken by a maintenance person refusing to complete a hot-work permit. Hot-work permit ...