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Free Property Safety & Fire Checklist Template | FormLM

Walk the safety spine — alarms, extinguishers, exits, signage, wiring, storage — with pass/fail marks, remedy owners and photos, so safety lives on a schedule.

~30 min inspection
10 safety lines
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Run it on a fixed schedule rather than only after an incident: alarms, extinguishers, exits, signage, wiring and storage are marked pass or fail with a named remedy owner and photos, so safety lives on a calendar. It supports your compliance routine — statutory certifications still require a qualified, licensed professional.

Disclaimer: a management-side safety walk; statutory fire certification and any ordered works remain the responsibility of licensed practitioners.

Lines adapted from landlord and building-manager fire-safety routine templates.

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About this template

Fire and safety obligations are proven by dated records or not at all. This checklist walks the ten lines that matter on ordinary property rounds — detection devices, extinguishers by zone, exits and lighting, signage, escape routes kept clear, wiring sightlines, storage and combustion risks, and the logbook itself — each rated with remedy owner and photo, and dated. It supports statutory duties; licensed professionals still certify.

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What's Included

Everything you need to run this template.

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Detection

Smoke and CO devices, dated and tested.

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Extinguishers by zone

Type, tag and location matched.

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Exits and routes

Clear, lit, signed, openable.

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Risks and records

Wiring, storage, logbook current.

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How It Works

From copy to deliverable in four steps.

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Use this template

Schedule it like a service.

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Walk ten lines

Pass, fail, owner named.

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Photograph every fail

Evidence carries the remedy.

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Re-check on due date

The logbook keeps the memory.

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Who Is This For

Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.

1

Landlords and managers

Duty-of-care on a calendar.

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Safety officers

Consistent walks across blocks.

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Insurers

Records that answer claims.

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Key Features

What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.

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Sample Questions Inside

A preview of real questions — the full version lets you customize every field.

  1. Smoke and CO alarms present and test-dated
  2. Extinguisher tags in date, types match zones
  3. Exits unlocked from inside, doors close properly
  4. Emergency lighting and exit signs working
  5. Escape routes free of storage
  6. Communal wiring and sockets visibly sound
  7. No combustible storage in risers or under stairs
  8. Gas appliances and flues current (certificate attached)
  9. Any works ordered since last check completed?
  10. Logbook entries current and signed
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Frequently Asked Questions

Does this satisfy the fire certificate duty?
It supports it; certification belongs to qualified persons where law requires. The checklist proves your management diligence between certificates.
How often should the walk run?
Between tenancies or annually at minimum, on your published schedule — the due-date reminder makes the interval self-enforcing.
What if a fail cannot be fixed today?
Assign the remedy owner and a target date on the spot; open fails with owners read far better than cleared ones that reopen.
Are photos of extinguisher tags overkill?
Until an incident; then tag, date and location is the record that shows a maintained device, not a remembered one.
Does the same walk serve HMOs and rentals?
Same spine, more points — room-by-room detection rows can be added; export splits per unit.
Why a logbook question inside the checklist?
Because the register going out of date is itself a finding — checking the paperwork is item ten for a reason.

Run safety on a dated schedule

Ten lines, photos, owners, due dates — diligence proven.