Fire Sprinkler Inspection Reports
The State has adopted the 2002 edition of NFPA 25, which is the nationally recognized standard for the inspection, testing and maintenance of fire sprinkler systems. According to this standard, it is the owner's responsibility to have the fire sprinkler system maintained and operable. A thorough annual inspection is to be made by a licensed fire sprinkler person. Our office inspects facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that they abide with currently adopted fire and life safety rules & regulations. Our office checks these facilities to see that quarterly fire sprinkler system inspection requirements are also met. We do not enforce quarterly inspections of facilities that are not licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
NFPA 25, (2002), Section 4.3.1 states: "Records of inspections, tests, and maintenance of the system and its components shall be made available to the authority having jurisdiction upon request." Their appendix note on this states: "Typical records include, but are not limited to, valve inspections; flow, drain, and pump tests; and trip tests of dry pipe, deluge, and preaction valves…"
Our office is not requiring copies of ALL of these inspections to be sent to our office, but we require that your inspection reports be made available for review upon our request, and that you mail the inspection reports that indicate non-compliance where the owners do not arrange to have them brought into compliance. Every inspection report, whether kept on file or mailed to our office, needs to include the inspector's license number.
NFPA 25 also states:
4.3.2: Records shall indicate the procedure performed (e.g., inspection, test, or maintenance), the organization that performed the work, the results, and the date.
4.3.3 Records shall be maintained by the owner.
4.3.4 Original records shall be retained for the life of the system.
4.3.5 Subsequent records shall be retained for a period of 1 year after the next inspection, test, or maintenance required by the standard.
Please be sure that all inspection reports are legible and complete.
[Last updated 3-31-08]
