Safety rounds checklist

Free tool

Your areas, your questions, one dated sheet per round — and a list of what needs doing when you are finished.

The building

Your own round, over areas you define, against questions you can change. It is not a survey, not an inspection by an authority, and not a life-safety certification: the starter areas and starter questions are a place to begin, not a required list, and CompliMaint states no round frequency and makes no determination that any facility is compliant or survey-ready.

Where the reference figures come from

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.

The areas

One card per area. Your list is kept for this building, so next time you open the tool and start checking rather than typing.

Visual check
Walkways and exits clearNothing stored in a path, a doorway or in front of an exit.
Floors and surfaces in safe conditionNo trip hazard, no spill left standing, no loose covering.
Lighting workingIncluding any emergency lighting you can see from here.
Doors close and latch as intendedN/A where the area has none you are responsible for.
Signs and exit markings legible
Equipment in the area in safe condition
Storage tidy and secureNothing stacked unsafely, nothing blocking access to a panel or a valve.
Chemicals stored and labeled as your program requiresN/A where none are kept here.
No new hazards observed
General housekeeping acceptable

The list is a starting point, not a standard

Every other log on this site cites verified rules, because a fire door and an eyewash station have published ones behind them. A general safety round does not. What a building walks for depends on what it is, who is in it and who inspects it — so the areas below are ones you define, and the questions are ones you can keep, reword or delete.

A starter list dressed up as the required list would be the most confident wrong thing this product could print. So it is not.

Ten questions to start from

Walkways and exits clear · Floors and surfaces in safe condition · Lighting working · Doors close and latch as intended · Signs and exit markings legible · Equipment in the area in safe condition · Storage tidy and secure · Chemicals stored and labeled as your program requires · No new hazards observed · General housekeeping acceptable

Each is Pass, Needs attention or N/A per area, and N/A is a real answer — a car park has no doors you latch, and a corridor keeps no chemicals. A question left unanswered stays unanswered rather than counting as a pass.

Areas belong to the building

You add the areas your building has, and they stay with that building. Two facilities that both have a “Main corridor” keep two corridors with two histories, because the round is filed against a building id rather than against a name. There is no shared area registry to keep in step.

No frequency, and no verdict

How often you round is yours to set. Nothing here calculates a due date, and finishing a round is not a finding that the building passed anything: it is a record of what somebody saw on a date, and a list of what to do about it.

What it connects to

Anything marked for attention becomes a tracked item in the corrective action tracker, and the work starts at the work order. The round files into Records against the building. For the walks that DO have published rules behind them, see the fire door and eyewash logs.

Your own round, over areas and questions you chose. CompliMaint conducts no survey, issues no certification, states no round frequency and makes no determination that any facility is compliant or survey-ready. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

What is a facility safety round?
A walk through the building against the same short list of questions, area by area, with what you found written down at the time. It is how problems get caught between formal inspections — a blocked exit, a light out, a spill nobody reported — and the dated sheet is the evidence the walk happened.
Are the areas and questions fixed?
No. Both are starting points and both are yours to change. You define the areas your building actually has, and you keep, edit or drop any of the starter questions. Nothing here is a required list, because what a facility walks for depends on what it is and who inspects it.
How often should safety rounds be done?
This tool does not say. Round frequency comes from your own program, your accrediting body where you have one, and your insurer. Set it yourself and let the sheets be the evidence you kept to it; nothing here calculates a due date or tells you that you are overdue.
Does completing a round mean the building passed anything?
No. This is your own round, not a survey and not an inspection by an authority, and it certifies nothing. What it produces is a record of what somebody observed on a date, plus a list of the things that need doing.