API 756

API Recommended Practice 756
Management of Hazards Associated with Location of Process Plant Tents

The American Petroleum Institute (API) recommended practice (RP 756) provides guidance for managing risk from explosions, fires, and toxic material releases to on-site personnel located in tents. The API Committee’s report evaluates recommended practices concerning five different types of tents utilized, including air-inflated structures.

Tents included in the tent siting evaluation study are intended for occupancy and may be used for breaks or meals, weather shelters, change houses, orientation, training, meetings, tool stations, offices, laboratories, or equipment assembly, just to name a few.  API 756 recommends tents for these uses and others be required to meet the owner/operator’s tent siting evaluation criteria, and mitigate consequences or risk where required.

Who Needs to Know About API 756?

Refineries, petrochemical and chemical operations, natural gas liquids extraction plants, natural gas liquefaction plants, and other onshore facilities covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119.

API 756 Guidelines

  • Locate personnel away from process areas consistent with safe and effective operations.
  • Minimize the use of tents intended for occupancy in close proximity to process areas.
  • Manage the occupancy of tents in close proximity to process areas.
  • Design, construct, install, modify, and maintain tents intended for occupancy to mitigate hazards that the tent siting could present to occupants in the event of explosion, fire, and toxic material release.
  • Manage the use of tents intended for occupancy as an integral part of the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of a facility.

Recommended Structures: Air-Inflatable StructuresTurnaround Logistics Dynamic Air Shelter

Air-inflatable structures provide the compliance with API 756. Click here for a provider and to learn more about air-inflatable shelters.

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