Fire extinguisher inspection log
Cited baselineInspect every extinguisher and keep the monthly record — eight checks a unit, your list saved for next month, printed for the file.
What the national standard says about this walk
Portable extinguisher visual — access, gauge, seal, condition, in place. Walk every extinguisher. Is it there, is it reachable, is the pin and seal intact, is the gauge needle in the green, is the hose clear and the body undented. Initial and date the tag. NFPA 10 §7.2 (monthly inspection), 2022 edition · record: tag / log · keep 12 months · checked July 2026
This is the national consensus baseline, with the edition each figure was checked against. Whether it applies to your building — and at what frequency — depends on the code edition your jurisdiction has adopted, your occupancy, your equipment's listing, the manufacturer's instructions and your authority having jurisdiction. Confirm it with them. This tool records what you did; it makes no determination that any facility is compliant.
Recording this log is not annual maintenance examination, internal examination (stored-pressure), hydrostatic test, hydrostatic test — those are separate services, several of them by a licensed company, and nothing here performs or certifies them.
What this records, and what it does not
This is the visual walk: is the extinguisher there, can somebody reach it, is the gauge in the green, is the seal intact, is the label readable. It is the thing in-house staff do, and the thing an inspector asks to see a year of.
It is not the annual maintenance examination, the six-year internal examination, or a hydrostatic test. Those are separate services, most of them carried out by a certified extinguisher company, and nothing here performs or certifies any of them. The printed record says so in as many words, because a log that let somebody believe otherwise would be worse than no log at all.
Where the frequency comes from
Portable extinguisher visual — access, gauge, seal, condition, in place. Walk every extinguisher. Is it there, is it reachable, is the pin and seal intact, is the gauge needle in the green, is the hose clear and the body undented. Initial and date the tag. NFPA 10 §7.2 (monthly inspection), 2022 edition. Record: tag / log. Retention: 12 months.
This is the national consensus baseline, with the edition each figure was checked against. Whether it applies to your building — and at what frequency — depends on the code edition your jurisdiction has adopted, your occupancy, your equipment's listing, the manufacturer's instructions and your authority having jurisdiction. Confirm it with them. This tool records what you did; it makes no determination that any facility is compliant.
Built for a corridor, not a desk
Forty extinguishers times eight questions is three hundred and twenty taps, which is how paper logs end up filled in from memory on a Friday afternoon. Each unit has an All pass button, so a clean unit is one tap and the exceptions are the ones you actually touch. Your inventory is kept per building, so next month you open the tool and start walking rather than start typing.
The rest of the monthly round
The emergency lights are the other walk — emergency lighting test log — and the generator test log covers emergency power. The compliance calendar puts every test in the building on a date with the code behind each, and the PM checklist covers the rounds that are not life safety.
A record of an inspection you carried out. CompliMaint issues no certifications and makes no determination that any facility is compliant — your authority having jurisdiction does that. Everything runs on your device.