HOT WORK POLICY & PROCEDURES COMPANY FIRE SAFETY. This manual aides employers with fire and safety legislation and covers the following - Hot Work fire safety procedures - administration procedures stage 1-4 - precautions i.e. gas welding and cutting apparatus, electric welding and cutting apparatus, blow lamps and blow torches, bitumen/tar boilers, grinding wheels and cutting discs. - 30 tear out Hot Work permits.