BUSINESS INSPECTIONS

To help protect you, your investment, and your customers from the potential effects of fire, Emergency Services is instituting an Engine Company Inspection Program. This program replaces our existing Self-Inspection Program.

Firefighters from our organization will visit your business at least once per year to ensure compliance with fire and life safety codes. These inspections will provide you an opportunity to meet your community firefighters while maintaining your business in a safe condition. The program provides firefighters an opportunity to familiarize themselves with your building and business processes making them more effective should they be called to extinguish a fire in your occupancy. Firefighters will also collect data on your business providing our organization an opportunity to better serve your needs.

All businesses in the City will be visited in 2007. Those businesses classified as assembly (greater than 50 people) or educational occupancies will be inspected, all others will be cataloged for inspection in 2008.

Firefighters will focus on the following items during their inspections:

1. Building access
2. Building egress (exiting)
3. Fire protection system installations and maintenance
4. General housekeeping
5. Storage
6. Fire separations
7. Fire extinguishers
8. Fire hazard control permits

Thank you in advance for you cooperation with this new program. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact Kevin Taylor, Battalion Chief, at 805-227-7560.