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Fire Safety Maintenance Checklist: Daily Checks (Not Normally Recorded) Yes No N/A Comments

This document provides a fire safety maintenance checklist for conducting daily, weekly, monthly, three-monthly, six-monthly and annual checks of escape routes, fire warning systems, emergency lighting, firefighting equipment, and other general fire safety items. The checklist includes items to inspect such as fire exits, doors, signs, extinguishers, alarms, generators and compartments. Records and comments are to be made for each inspection.

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Fire Safety Maintenance Checklist: Daily Checks (Not Normally Recorded) Yes No N/A Comments

This document provides a fire safety maintenance checklist for conducting daily, weekly, monthly, three-monthly, six-monthly and annual checks of escape routes, fire warning systems, emergency lighting, firefighting equipment, and other general fire safety items. The checklist includes items to inspect such as fire exits, doors, signs, extinguishers, alarms, generators and compartments. Records and comments are to be made for each inspection.

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Fire safety maintenance checklist

Yes No N/A Comments


Daily checks (not normally recorded)
Escape routes
Can all fir e exits be opened immediately and easily?
Are fire doors clear of obstructions?
Are escape routes clear?
Fire war ning systems
Is the indicator panel showing ‘normal’?
Are whistles, gongs or air horns in place?
Escape lighting
Are luminaires and exit signs in good condition and undamaged?
Is emer gency lighting and sign lighting working correctly?
Firefighting equipment
Are all fire extinguishers in place?
Are fire extinguishers clearly visible?
Are vehicles blocking fire hydrants or access to them?

Weekly checks
Escape r outes
Do all emer gency fastening devices to fir e exits (push bars and
pads, etc.) work correctly?
Are external routes clear and safe?
Fire warning systems
Does testing a manual call point send a signal to the indicator
panel? (Disconnect the link to the r eceiving centre or tell them
you are doing a test.)
Did the alarm system work correctly when tested?
Did staff and other people hear the fir e alarm?
Did any linked fire protection systems operate correctly?
(e.g. magnetic door holder r eleased, smoke curtains drop)
Do all visual alarms and/or vibrating alarms and pagers
(as applicable) work?
Do voice alarm systems work correctly?
Was the message understood?
E scape lighting
Are charging indicators (if fitted) visible?
Firefighting equipment
Is all equipment in good condition?
Additional items from manufacturer’s recommendations.
Yes No N/A Comments
Monthly checks
Escape routes
Do all electronic release mechanisms on escape doors work
correctly? Do they ‘fail safe’ in the open position?
Do all automatic opening doors on escape routes ‘fail safe’ in
the open position?
Are fire door seals and self-closing devices in good condition?

Do all internal self-closing fire doors work correctly?


Escape lighting
Do all luminaires and exit signs function correctly when tested?
Have all emergency generators been tested? (Normally run for one hour.)
Firefighting equipment
Is the pr essure in ‘stored pressure’ fire extinguishers correct?
Additional items from manufacturer’s recommendations.
Three-monthly checks
General

Are vehicles blocking fire hydrants or access to them?


Additional items from manufacturer’s recommendations.

Six-monthly checks
General
Has any firefighting or emergency evacuation lift been tested by
a competent person?
Has any sprinkler system been tested by a competent person?
Have the r elease and closing mechanisms of any fir e-resisting
compartment doors and shutters been tested by a competent person?
Fire warning system
Has the system been checked by a competent person?

Escape lighting
Do all luminaires operate on test for one third of their rated value?
dditional items from manufacturer’s recommendations.
Annual checks
Escape routes
Do all self-closing fire doors fit correctly?
Is escape route compartmentation in good repair?
Escape lighting
o all luminaires operate on test for their full rated duration?
Has the system been checked by a competent person?
Firefighting equipment
Has all firefighting equipment been checked by a competent person?

Miscellaneous

Has the smoke and heat ventilation system been tested by a


competent person?
Has external access for the fire service been checked for
ongoing availability?
Are any necessary fire engine direction signs in place?
Risk Assessment – Record of significant findings
R isk assessment for Assessment undertaken by

Company Date
Completed by
Address
Signature

Sheet number F lo o r /a r e a Us e

Step 1 – Identify fire hazards

Sour ces of ignition Sour ces of fuel Sour ces of oxygen

Step 2 – People at risk

Step 3 – Evaluate, r emove, r educe and pr otect fr om risk

(3.1) Evaluate the risk


of the fire occuring

(3.2) Evaluate the risk to


people from a fire starting
in the premises

(3.3) Remove and reduce


the hazards that may
cause a fire

(3.4) Remove and reduce


the risks to people
from a fire

Assessment review

Assessment review date Completed by Signature

Review outcome (where substantial changes have occurred a new record sheet should be used)

Notes:
(1) The risk assessment record of significant findings should refer to other plans, records or other documents as necessary.
(2) The information in this record should assist you to develop an emergency plan; coordinate measures with other ‘responsible persons’
in the building; and to inform and train staff and inform other relevant persons.

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