What goes on an AED inspection log?

Each unit's identity and location, and whether the device is in its designated place, reachable, showing a ready status indicator, with pads present and sealed, spare pads where you keep them, a battery installed and reading OK, the supplies that live with it, the cabinet and its alarm where there is one, and no visible damage. Then the pad and battery expiration dates, the date of the walk, who did it, and what was wrong and what was done about it.

How often should an AED be inspected?

CompliMaint does not set an interval, and neither should any checklist you download. The frequency comes from the manufacturer's instructions for your specific model and from whatever your state, licensor, insurer or medical director requires — and they differ. Ask them, then use this log at whatever interval you land on.

Does this tell me when my AED pads expire?

It does the arithmetic on the date you typed off the pouch — "Pad expiration expires in 12 days" — and it prints that on the record. It does not tell you that a deadline has been missed or that a device is out of service, because what an expired pad means for your device is between you and the manufacturer.

AED inspection log

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Walk every AED and keep the record — eleven checks a unit, pad and battery dates tracked, printed for the file.

What this records, and what it does not

This is the walk: is the device where it is supposed to be, can somebody reach it, is the status indicator showing ready, are the pads sealed and in date, is the battery in and reading OK, is the cabinet intact. It is the thing in-house staff do, and the thing somebody asks to see a year of.

It is not the manufacturer’s maintenance procedure and not a service by a qualified technician. Nothing here performs a self-test, certifies a device, or tells you an AED is fit to use. The printed record says so in as many words.

Nobody here will tell you how often to do it

Almost every AED checklist you can download says “monthly”. We do not, because the honest answer is that it depends on your model’s manual and on your state, your licensor, your insurer or your medical director — and they disagree with each other. Ask them. The log works at whatever interval you land on, and the record it prints carries the date you actually walked it.

Pad and battery dates, from your own pouch

Type the expiration dates off the pads and the battery when you set the unit up, and the log does the arithmetic: Pad expiration expires in 12 days. That sentence goes on the printed record beside the unit. It is arithmetic on your number and nothing more — it does not say a deadline was missed or that a device is out of service, because what an expired pad means for your device is between you and the manufacturer.

Your AEDs are the building’s, not this tool’s

Units you enter here are kept in your facility’s equipment register, so next time you open the tool you start walking rather than start typing — and the same AED is one thing across the product rather than a row in one tool’s private list. Each building keeps its own; nothing crosses.

The rest of the safety round

The first aid kit inspection log is the other walk somebody does on the same afternoon. The extinguisher log and emergency lighting test log cover life safety, and the compliance calendar puts the tests that do have a cited baseline on dates.

A record of a visual inspection you carried out on your own AEDs. It is not the manufacturer's maintenance procedure and not a service by a qualified technician. How often AEDs must be inspected, and by whom, is set by the manufacturer's instructions and by your state, licensor, insurer or medical director — CompliMaint does not set an interval and makes no determination that any facility is compliant. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

What goes on an AED inspection log?: Each unit's identity and location, and whether the device is in its designated place, reachable, showing a ready status indicator, with pads present and sealed, spare pads where you keep them, a battery installed and reading OK, the supplies that live with it, the cabinet and its alarm where there is one, and no visible damage. Then the pad and battery expiration dates, the date of the walk, who did it, and what was wrong and what was done about it.
How often should an AED be inspected?: CompliMaint does not set an interval, and neither should any checklist you download. The frequency comes from the manufacturer's instructions for your specific model and from whatever your state, licensor, insurer or medical director requires — and they differ. Ask them, then use this log at whatever interval you land on.
Does this tell me when my AED pads expire?: It does the arithmetic on the date you typed off the pouch — "Pad expiration expires in 12 days" — and it prints that on the record. It does not tell you that a deadline has been missed or that a device is out of service, because what an expired pad means for your device is between you and the manufacturer.