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These guides are written for the person who runs a fire protection contractor in the United States, and for the facilities manager who holds the building's inspection file. They explain what each system's inspection has to test, how often the federal floor in 29 CFR 1910 subpart L requires it, and what the report has to record, and each one hands its walk to the free document that captures it. They publish no fire code and rule on no system's compliance: the standard the authority having jurisdiction enforces decides that, and the licensed inspector in front of the system applies it.
- Fire safety inspection, life safety inspection, life safety inspections, fire life safety inspection, fire and safety inspection, fire protection inspections and the fire inspection reports they produce
What a fire safety inspection actually covers, system by system, how often each part falls due, and what its report has to record.
- Authority having jurisdiction, ahj requirements and the ahj inspection: who decides, and what they ask to see
Who the AHJ is, why two towns can enforce the same code differently, and what an inspection has to be able to show when they ask.
- Fire protection system and fire protection systems: what is fire protection in buildings, part by part, and what each part's inspection tests
The parts of a building's fire protection system, what each one is for, and the interval its inspection is held to.
- Fire life safety, fire and life safety systems, fire life safety systems and life safety systems in buildings: what the phrase covers and who inspects each part
Why fire protection and life safety are two overlapping sets, which systems sit in each, and where inspections fall between them.
- Fire sprinkler system inspection, fire sprinkler inspections, residential fire sprinkler inspection and industrial fire sprinkler systems: how a sprinkler system works, read off its own fire sprinkler system diagram
What a sprinkler inspection actually tests, the main drain flow test and the inspector's test valve, and how often each falls due.
- Water flow test and hose testing: what each proves, and what to write down
What a flow test proves about a water supply, what hose testing proves about the equipment, and the records each one leaves.
- Industrial fire protection systems and industrial fire protection: what changes when the building is a plant rather than an office
What industrial fire protection adds to an ordinary inspection round: hazard classes, in-rack systems, process suppression and changing occupancy.
- Industrial fire suppression systems, industrial fire suppression, dry chemical fire suppression system and dry chemical suppression system: what the fire suppression system diagram shows, and how a fire detection and suppression system is checked
How fixed suppression systems are inspected: the annual by a knowledgeable person, semi-annual container weights, and the 29 CFR 1910.160 thresholds.
- Fire alarm system components: the panel, the initiating devices, the notification appliances and what each one's test proves
The parts of a fire alarm system, what each contributes, and what a test of each has to prove before it counts as done.
- Alarm company management software, fire alarm service software, fire alarm software and fire and security software: what an alarm business needs its system to hold
What alarm company software has to hold beyond a work order: devices, monitoring accounts, recurring revenue and the inspection dates behind them.
- Fire inspector software, fire door inspection software, backflow prevention software and backflow testing software: choosing by the system you actually inspect
Why inspection software is sold by system type, what each speciality needs, and what to insist on whatever you inspect.