Fire extinguisher software
- What a year of emergency lighting tests costs
- 7,174
- Fittings and signs on the round
- 330
- Fittings a technician has to key-test each month, per site
- 94
Every figure the worksheets return is worked from the numbers you enter. The only outside figures on this site are the test frequencies and durations the codes ask for, and each one is cited under the tool it appears in.
Fire extinguisher software, for the company that already runs the round rather than the one deciding whether to, is one question with a dull answer: where does the check go after the technician turns the extinguisher over and puts it back on the bracket. The walk does not change much between a clipboard and a phone. What changes is whether the extinguisher that was low on pressure in November is on a screen when the same site is walked in May, whether the annual maintenance date the federal rule asks you to record is a record or a memory, and whether anyone can say what the round costs against the sites it covers. This page sets out what the device record has to hold for those three questions to have answers, and what it costs to keep the devices rather than the sheets.
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Size the round before you buy software for it
Fittings and devices per site, minutes each takes, sites on the round and what the hour costs, against the failures a year and what clearing one costs: the two free worksheets on this site put those together and give the year's hours and the year's cost side by side. A company that knows those two figures buys differently to one that does not.
Put every device on the site it lives on
Not a count, a list: this extinguisher, on this floor, by this door, with this serial and this barcode. A device that exists as a row is a device that can be missed visibly; a device that exists only inside a total of fourteen cannot.
Hold the three federal clocks on every extinguisher
The federal rule runs three intervals per device, not per site: the monthly visual inspection, the annual maintenance check whose date must be recorded and kept, and the hydrostatic test on an interval fixed by the extinguisher type, five years for carbon dioxide and pressurised water units and twelve for stored-pressure dry chemical. Between the last two sits the six-year internal examination on stored-pressure dry chemical units. A device record that carries all four dates, each from the device's own last date, is a record that can say what is due this week across every site; a diary started three years ago cannot know about a twelve-year date at all.
Carry the next due date on the device, not in a diary
Monthly is easy on one site and hard on eleven with different anniversaries. When the due date lives on the device, the week's work is a query rather than a recollection, and a missed month shows up as an overdue row instead of as silence.
Keep the signature with the check
The question you are asked six months later is who checked it and when. A technician and a timestamp against each device answers it in a second, and it is the difference between a record and an assertion.
Export the whole history before you need to
Run the full export once a quarter and keep it: every device, every check, every finding, every technician, as a plain file the building owner could read without your software. It is the proof that the record is yours rather than the vendor's, it is what a new contractor is handed on the day the contract changes, and it is the copy that survives a subscription lapsing. A record that cannot leave in full is a record that ends the day the invoice stops.
Will it keep your devices, beyond the Fire extinguisher software?
Tell us what you look after and we will tell you whether Extinvo fits, what it does not do, and what it would cost you. A person who works on the product reads it.
What a contractor asks before running the Fire extinguisher software
What does fire extinguisher software actually have to keep? Four things per device and nothing clever: which extinguisher it is, where it is, when it was last checked and by whom, and when the next check falls due. The federal rule adds one more with a retention period attached, the annual maintenance date, which has to be recorded and kept for a year after the last entry or the life of the shell. Software that holds those five holds the whole obligation; software that holds a site total holds none of it.
Do I need software if I only look after one building? Probably not, and we would rather say so. One building with fourteen extinguishers is a spreadsheet and a diary reminder, and it will hold until the person who keeps it leaves. The arithmetic changes at about three sites or two technicians, where the anniversaries stop lining up and the record stops being one person's memory. Size your own round on the free fire and safety inspection sheet before you decide.
Does Extinvo cover emergency lights and alarm panels as well as extinguishers? Yes, and deliberately, because they are on the same walk and in the same building. A company that keeps extinguishers in one system and emergency lighting in another is the company that misses one of them. The devices differ in what a check involves; they do not differ in needing a location, a date, a technician and a next-due.
What does it cost? Extinvo Pro is $49 a month for the whole company, billed monthly, however many technicians and sites you run, and you cancel it yourself from your account page. Both worksheets on this site stay free with no account whether or not you ever subscribe.
What goes on the round for emergency lighting? A function test monthly and a full-duration test annually is the pattern most US buildings follow, with the interval and the ninety-minute duration coming from the code your authority having jurisdiction adopted rather than from this site. The emergency lighting test log here sizes those visits from your fitting count and self-test share; the device record keeps the results per fitting.