Life Safety can sound ominous. However all we have to do is ask for a consultation with your Fire Authority Having jurisdiction (AHJ), with L&I. They will be happy to talk you through what is you are responsible to to inspect. Let’s look at some of them: 1. Extinguishers have monthly and annual requirements. 2. Emergency Lights/Exit Lights have monthly and annual requirements. 3. Fire Alarm systems have monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual inspections. 4. Wet Pipe Fire Suppression systems have monthly, quarterly, annual and 5-year inspections. 5. Fire Doors have annual inspections. 6. FDCs have quarterly inspections. 7. AEDs need their pads inspected and batteries changed annually. And the list goes on, in some cases depending on the buildings occupancy, bleachers, water for lead and copper, kitchen hoods, water heaters, eye wash stations and emergency showers, generators… If these are not in your CMMS/IWMS system, your chance of remembering them, and having the documentation for the AHJ is minimal. Most of us contract these out, for multiple reasons. Do we RFQ for a multiyear contract including the Industry Best Practices steps? Or do we just leave it to the contractor to do the right thing? When it comes to Life Safety, there are big liability issues, we need to be specific with what we are requiring of our contractors. Lets do the right thing, put them all in our software so the WO gets produced on time, every time, with the Industry Best Practices steps on it. Life Safety can not be left to chance, there is too much at stake, lives, maybe yours.
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