Templates / Fire safety
Escape routes and emergency lighting check
Checklist · Every week
Checks the ways out of the site and the building under construction are clear, signed and lit, and the alarm can be heard everywhere.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Articles 14 and 15 (emergency routes and exits, procedures)
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, Regulation 30 (emergency routes and exits) and regulation 32 (fire)
- HSE HSG168, Fire safety in construction
The questions
Where and when
- Building or area
- Date
Escape routes
- Every escape route clear of materials, waste and equipment
- Routes and exits signed, signs visible
- Exit doors open easily in the direction of escape
- Travel distances still right as the building has grown
Lighting and alarm
- Routes lit, with emergency lighting where it's dark when the power fails
- The fire alarm can be heard everywhere, and was tested this week
- Fire points in place with extinguishers
Actions
- Anything found that needs putting right (write "None" if nothing)
- Action taken or who it was passed to
Sign-off
- Checked by
- Date and time
- Signature
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.