Fire safety inspection software
Fire protection maintenance in Australia runs to a schedule set by AS 1851: monthly, six-monthly and yearly routines for every sprinkler valve set, hydrant, detector and door in the building. The inspection is quick; the paperwork that proves it happened is what the building owner, the certifier and the fire brigade actually read.
The reports in this discipline split two ways. Routine-service work — sprinklers, hydrants, detectors, dampers, doors — is a register of assets tested against a frequency table, where the value is in never missing one. Assessment work — BAL ratings, asset protection zones, passive fire penetration surveys, evacuation diagrams — is a judgement written up against a standard, where the value is in the reasoning. SurveyThanks captures both on site, offline, and renders them into your own report template.
Enter your buildings, fire compartments and rated elements once
Every penetration points at the rated wall it breaches, so the register and the report body are the same data — and a compartment renamed during the survey stays consistent across both.
What goes in your reference library
- AS 3959 for bushfire attack level assessment
- AS 1851 where you are auditing rather than signing service records
- NCC fire safety provisions and the relevant AS 1670 and AS 2419 parts
- State fire safety statement and certification requirements
- Your own assessment methodology and evidence standards
Reviewed before it leaves
Your own checklist and prose standards, run against the finished report — with findings graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault. Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review catches contradictions between the two: The report says sprinkler coverage is throughout; the form records the warehouse only.
12 report types in fire safety
- Asset protection zone inspectionsAPZ compliance reportRural fire services
- Bushfire attack level assessmentsBAL reportBAL assessors
- Bushfire hazard reduction auditsHazard reduction reportCouncils
- Evacuation diagram auditsDiagram compliance reportFire consultants
- Evacuation drill recordsDrill observation reportFire wardens
- Fire damper testingDamper test reportMechanical contractors
- Fire hydrant testingHydrant flow test reportFire contractors
- Fire safety statement auditsAFSS evidence packFire consultants
- Fire trail condition auditsTrail condition reportLand managers
- Passive fire penetration surveysPenetration registerPassive fire firms
- Smoke detector testingDetector test registerFire technicians
- Sprinkler system inspectionsSprinkler test reportFire contractors
Standards the report works to
- AS 1851-2012Routine service of fire protection systems and equipment
- Sets the frequency and the test procedure for each system, and the baseline data a service record has to carry.
- AS 4072.1-2005Components for the protection of openings in fire-resistant separating elements — Service penetrations and control joints
- What a passive fire penetration survey checks each penetration against.
- AS 1530.4Methods for fire tests on building materials, components and structures — Fire-resistance tests
- The test basis a penetration system’s FRL is cited from.
- AS 3959Construction of buildings in bushfire-prone areas
- The method behind every bushfire attack level assessment.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
Questions
- Does SurveyThanks replace our AS 1851 service software?
- It covers the inspection and the report: an asset register entered once, a form per routine, and a service report rendered into your own Word template. It is not a dispatch or parts system, so if you rely on stock control or timesheets you would keep that tool alongside.
- Can technicians record tests in plant rooms with no signal?
- Yes. Jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio are captured offline and queue on the device until the server confirms receipt. Generating the report needs a connection.
- Can one form cover sprinklers, hydrants and detection on the same site?
- Yes. Forms are built from reusable modules with repeatable groups, so a multi-system site is one job with a section per system rather than three separate forms.
- Do we have to use your report layout?
- No. The report renders into the Word template you already send clients, with your letterhead, section order and defect wording.
Other disciplines
Bring your fire safety template
Your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with the drafted prose landing where the template says it should.