Block B · Bay 3 · extinguisher failed its check

A fire extinguisher
fails its check.
Who else finds out?

Right now that answer is a tick in a register, a photo on somebody's phone, and a promise to look at it next month. Play through what the same finding looks like on Fast Fire Audit.

EXT-118 · Block B, Bay 3 Failed
Out of service, unverified
14d 06:22:41
Device-days unprotected across this site, this year
1,847
46 people
work in that bay
Finding
Pressure low
Found on
Monthly check
Assigned
Nobody

Simulated site data — everything on this page is live and clickable

01 — The size of the gap

Non-compliance is not an event. It is an accumulation.

Every device has a due date. Every date that slips leaves an area covered by equipment nobody has verified — for a length of time you can actually measure. Move the sliders to your building.

Device-days a year left unverified
8,400
400 of 1,600 required checks slip past their date. Every one of them is a device somebody is relying on and nobody has looked at.
At a 95% on-time rate and a 5-day fix
400
That difference is the gap Fast Fire Audit is pointed at — and the one an inspection, an insurer or an inquiry will find first.
The extinguisher cycle

Monthly, quarterly, annual — and five-yearly

A monthly visual check by trained in-house staff, a quarterly inspection whose records Factories Act premises are expected to maintain, a thorough annual inspection by a certified technician, annual refilling, and hydrostatic testing every five years.

IS 2190 — Code of Practice for First-Aid Fire Extinguishers
The statutory filing

Twice a year, January and July

The owner or occupier of a covered building must have its fire-fighting installations inspected by a licensed agency and furnish the prescribed certificate to the Chief Fire Officer twice a year. The obligation sits with the occupier, not the vendor.

Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006
The annual audit

Fire load, escape routes, detection, suppression

A systematic examination of the building against Part 4 — Fire and Life Safety. The Code also expects periodic inspection by the building's own occupants, and places responsibility for keeping installations in working order on the owner or occupier.

National Building Code of India 2016, Part 4
Failure 01

Nobody owns the due date

The schedule lives in one person's diary. He goes on leave in April, and April's checks quietly do not happen. Nobody notices until the next audit — or the next fire.

Failure 02

The finding has no ending

The blocked exit was raised in March. And again in June. Without an owner, a target date and an escalation, a finding is a sentence in a report, not a thing that gets fixed.

Failure 03

The record cannot survive a question

Six months of ticks in the same pen, signed in one sitting. It satisfies a filing cabinet. It does not satisfy a fire officer who asks who stood in front of this device, and when.

02 — Every device carries its own file

Scan the tag. The device tells you its whole history.

Every extinguisher, hydrant, detector, panel, door and pump is registered once and gets a printed barcode or QR tag, or an NFC sticker. An auditor scans it on his phone and the device's entire record opens — which also proves he was standing in front of it.

Device tag — EXT-118 Printed label, Block B
DeviceEXT-118
TypeABC dry powder
Capacity6 kg
LocationBlock B, Bay 3
Tap to scan

What the register holds

  • Device code, category, make and capacity
  • Location down to site, building, floor and area
  • Installation, last refill, next due and hydrotest dates
  • Photographs of the device and its mounting
  • Printed barcode or QR tag, or an NFC sticker

What hangs off it

  • The right checklist for that device type
  • Its own inspection frequency
  • Every past check, with auditor, timestamp and photo
  • Every finding raised against it, and how it closed
  • Refill and third-party inspection certificates

Who uses it that way

  • Auditor on the floor, on a phone, one-handed
  • Safety officer planning the month's rounds
  • Fire officer asking for one device's complete record
  • Insurer at renewal, and after any claim

Waiting for a scan
Point the camera at the device tag

03 — From a failed check to a verified fix

One finding, raised to closed. Watch who gets told.

This is the real sequence: found at the device, alerted to the group, assigned with a target date, covered in the meantime, root cause recorded, fixed by a licensed agency, and closed only after someone else verifies it. Every step stamped with a name and a time.

NC/26-27/0412·EXT-118·Pressure below green Not started
Open for
00:00
Bay cover
None
Site compliance
94%
Open findings
9
04 — The point of all this

Closing findings fast is good. Not having them is better.

Every device category carries its own frequency. Each due date raises an alert before it lapses, puts the right checklist on the auditor's phone, and records the result against the device. Thirty days in Block B, run both ways.

Block B — 30 days on a paper register
Check missed Check completed Finding raised Nothing due
Checks missed
9
Devices overdue today
23
Checks completed
3 of 12
Block compliance
74%

Planning & frequency

  • Frequency set per device category
  • Plan by site, building, floor and area
  • Assigned to named, competent auditors
  • Approved before the plan runs
  • Due alerts by email, SMS and WhatsApp

Checklists & evidence

  • The right check points for each device type
  • Your existing Excel formats imported
  • OK / not-OK with a remark on every point
  • Photographs captured at the device
  • No check point can be left blank

Certificates & third parties

  • Refill and hydrotest dates per device
  • Licensed-agency reports attached to the device
  • Half-yearly certification history in one place
  • Expiry alerts before the date, not after
05 — The control tower

What is uncovered right now — without walking the building.

A live board for every area and system, and the numbers that tell you whether compliance is actually improving. Compliance by area, devices overdue, how long findings take to close, and how many checks landed on time.

Site compliance
96% ↑ 5 pts
Devices overdue
23 ↓ 61%
Avg finding closure
4.2 d ↓ from 19 d
Checks on time
97% ↑ 43 pts

Boards you run the week on

  • Compliance by area, block and system
  • Devices overdue, and by how long
  • Findings ageing by owner and priority
  • Checks due this week and next
  • Refill, hydrotest and certificate expiries

Numbers you report upward

  • Site and multi-site compliance percentage
  • Plan versus actual, month by month
  • Average time to close a finding
  • Repeat findings, by device and by area
  • Auditor-wise completion

Records the fire officer asks for

  • The full device register for the premises
  • Every check with auditor, timestamp and photo
  • Every finding and its verified closure
  • Refill, hydrotest and agency certificates
  • Half-yearly certification history
06 — When the fire officer walks in

Everything they can ask for, in one place, without notice.

An inspection is not really a test of your equipment. It is a test of whether you can prove your equipment has been looked after. This is the pack Fast Fire Audit produces on the spot — press the button and watch it assemble.

Compliance pack·Block B·214 devices Not generated
Nothing to hand over yet

Why this is the whole argument

  • Equipment is bought once. Upkeep is proved every month.
  • The question is never “do you have extinguishers?”
  • It is “who checked this one, when, and what happened next?”
  • That answer either exists in a system, or it does not exist.

What it changes for the officer

  • A named auditor and timestamp behind every entry
  • Photographic evidence attached to the device itself
  • Findings that visibly closed, with a second person verifying
  • No gap between what the register claims and what happened

What it changes for you

  • No three-day scramble before an inspection
  • The same pack serves the insurer at renewal
  • Multi-site groups compare blocks on one standard
  • Exported to PDF and Excel, timestamped
07 — Dhruv AI

Ask the building a question in plain English.

Dhruv AI reads your own device and audit history and answers. It also clusters the free-text remarks auditors write into recurring themes — the patterns a fixed report will never show you, because nobody thought to ask for that column.

DDhruv AIRead-only — your data stays in your database
Which area is falling behind on its checks?

Stop proving fire safety with a signature in a register

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