Life and safety inspection planner
- Recorded test events this contract owes in a year
- 720
- Of which monthly: the extinguisher visuals
- 576
- Of which semi-annual: the fixed system container weighings
- 4
- Of which annual: extinguisher maintenance, main drain, hose, fixed systems
- 53
The inspection intervals on these pages come from 29 CFR 1910 subpart L, the federal floor for portable extinguishers, standpipe and hose systems, automatic sprinklers, fixed extinguishing systems and fire detection, read from the eCFR and linked on the page that uses them.
The report above is a worked example, 720, on a building we made up. Change any line and it re-renders on your own visit.
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How many recorded test events a contract owes in a year, and which intervals they fall on. Put the system counts of one building in and set the buildings figure to your whole portfolio, and it returns the total, split into the monthly extinguisher visuals, the semi-annual container weighings, the annual round and the inspector's test valve and alarm device tests at whatever frequency your AHJ requires. The number is usually larger than people expect, and the split is the useful part: on the worked example four fifths of the year's records are the monthly extinguisher visual, which is the cheapest task and the one most often unrecorded.
What contractors ask about the Life and safety inspection planner
Why does the monthly visual dominate the count?
Because it happens twelve times a year against every unit. A building with 48 extinguishers owes 576 monthly visual records a year and about 144 of everything else, which is why a contractor whose paperwork is failing is almost always failing on the cheapest task rather than the hardest one.
What is the inspector's test valve frequency for?
The federal floor is at least every two years, which is 0.5 times a year. Many adopted standards want it quarterly, which is 4. Setting it to what your AHJ actually requires is the difference between planning the year and planning the federal minimum.
Is a monthly visual really a recorded event?
It is a required inspection, and the practical answer depends on who does it. Where the building's own staff do the visual, the record is theirs; where you do it, it is yours and it is the volume in this figure. Either way somebody has to be able to show it happened.
How do I use the per-building number?
As a sanity check on a bid. If a building owes seven hundred recorded events a year and you have priced twelve short visits, either the visuals belong to the customer or the price is wrong. Working that out before signing is cheaper than working it out in month nine.
Does this tell me when each one falls due?
No. It sizes the year. Knowing which system falls due on which date is a record rather than a calculation, and it is what the paid side of this product keeps: every system against its interval, its last date and its next.
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Keeping the round: due dates, deficiencies and the file the AHJ asks for
Pro keeps the round: the buildings, the systems, the due dates and the deficiencies, so the schedule builds itself and nothing falls off the end of a year.
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Where the constants in this tool come from
eCFR, 29 CFR 1910.157: portable fire extinguishers.
eCFR, 29 CFR 1910.159: automatic sprinkler systems.
eCFR, 29 CFR 1910.160: fixed extinguishing systems.