re: Wearing coats over FR clothing

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I work for a major oil company in HES. Our requirements are the outer layer must be FR which reflects the OSHA interpretation and the current API standard. I suggest either purchasing a FR coat or wearing several layers under your FR. If you are doing the later, I hope you bought coveralls that are to big.

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Yea, we all have FR shirts and jeans. Not really any room for layering.

I don't have a great background in OSHA, which is why I am wondering.

One of our clients has had an issue with a flash fire being started by a trunk pumping into the storage tank instead of sucking out.

It pushed a gas cloud over to one of the compressors which ignighted and burned a technician. That is the kind of stuff that concerns me.

I'll try and dig a bit more to find the OSHA and API standards to discuss with my boss.