Bureau of Fire Code Enforcement – Conduct an Inspection

 

To get to your Inspection Task List—

●       In My Workspace, click Inspection To-Do List.

Your Inspection To-Do List will display all of the inspection tasks assigned to you that are due within 30 days.

●       OPTIONAL: To filter the list (to make it shorter and more manageable)—

–       Enter and/or select criteria.

–       Click Filter Results.

●       Click the Conduct Inspection icon (far right of the row) for the desired facility.

●       In the In Progress/Pending Inspections screen, click the radio button to select the desired facility (Program Interest).

●       To verify and/or change Registration information, click the Update Registration button.

●       Review and change (if necessary)—

–       LHUs

–       Building characteristics

–       Contacts

(If the ownership has changed, stop this procedure and process a Transfer Registration.)

●       If you have modified the registration information, click Record Results at the bottom of the Business Information screen.

●       At the Recorded Inspection Results - Task Summary Information screen—

–       Enter the Start Date and Start Time (military time) of the inspection in the Inspection Dates section.

–       Click the Record Results button.

●       You may want to narrow down the inspection tasks at the facility to a specific building, floor, etc.

–       Select criteria to filter the inspection list.

–       Click Filter.

●       To write a violation against a subject item (or a group of subject items with the same violation)—

–       Select its radio button (or select the radio buttons of all the subject items with the same violation)

–       Choose Violation in the Subject Item Status pull down list at the bottom left of the screen.

●       Click Continue.

●       In the Record Requirements and Corrective Actions screen—

–       Enter the level of detail that you know.

OR

–       Search for Requirements by selecting or entering the General Rule (Sub-Chapter).

–       Then select or enter Section, Sub-Section, Paragraph, Sub-Paragraph, Requirement Text, and/or Corrective Action Text.

–       Click Search.

●       Select the appropriate Requirement from the search results.

●       Select the appropriate Corrective Action.

●       Click Continue.

●       Enter information (floor, room, location, details) in the Add Violation Details section, as needed.

●       Click Record Result.

You will be brought back to the Record Inspection Results - Identify Subject Items screen.

●       Follow the directions above to record additional violations.

●       To record "No Violations" for subject items, select the appropriate radio button(s).

●       Change the subject items' status to No Violations.

●       Click Continue.

●       Enter End Date and End Time (military time) of the inspection in the Inspection Dates section.

Attachments

●       If you don’t need to upload any documents, click Continue and skip this step.

●       To upload (attach) documents—

–       Enter the Attachment Name and other relevant information.

–       Click Browse on the Attachment Upload screen.

–       When the File Upload window opens up, select the desired document.

–       Click Open.

–       Click Upload on the Attachment Upload screen.

●       When you have uploaded all the desired documents, click Continue.

●       When all subject items have been inspected, click Continue.

●       Review the inspected results on the Lead Inspector Review page button.

●       If any inspection results need to be changed, click its radio button and click the details icon to edit the information.

●       When you have verified all results, click Continue.

●       Click the Certification Ribbon to certify the results. At this point, the inspection results cannot be changed.

●       Enter your certification PIN on the Certification screen

●       Click Certify.

●       Click Continue.

●       Review the submission details Submittal Confirmation screen and click Return.

You will be brought back to the Inspection To-Do List.




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