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Inspection template in the LeanSuite app

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Fire door and fire exit inspection checklist

A fire door inspection checks that each fire door will close, latch and hold back smoke when it has to, and that the exit routes beside it are open. This weekly version has 8 questions per building or zone: four on the doors (closing and latching, wedges, seals and hinges, holes in the door or frame) and four on the exits (clear routes, lit exit signs, hardware that opens freely, a signed assembly point).

Fire door assemblies also need a documented yearly inspection under NFPA 80, usually by a trained inspector, and this weekly walk is the floor check between those visits. Facilities, EHS or a shift supervisor can run it zone by zone. On the floor, a failure is a fire door propped open with a pallet so forklifts can pass, a closer that leaves the door short of the latch, or a cable run drilled through the frame. Each one turns a rated door into an opening in a fire.

What it is for, as built: Weekly inspection of fire doors, exits and escape routes.

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The full question list

The 8 questions in the inspection

Every question is answered Yes, No or N/A. Each No is flagged and asks for a photo and a comment, so the finding arrives with its evidence.

Doors

  1. 1Fire doors close fully and latch
  2. 2Doors are not wedged open
  3. 3Seals and hinges are intact
  4. 4No holes in the door or frame

Exits

  1. 5Exit routes are clear
  2. 6Exit signs are lit
  3. 7Exit hardware opens freely
  4. 8Assembly point is signed and accessible

Worked example, illustrative

A filled-in example

One section as it might be filled in on the floor, with every other section of the inspection answered Yes. The place and finding are made up to show how the inspection reads and scores.

Result: fail, 87.5% against a pass mark of 90

  • 8 questions, all of them count.
  • 1 answered No, so 7 of 8 are Yes: 7 ÷ 8 = 87.5%.
  • 87.5% is under 90, so the inspection fails.

What happened next: Supervisor removed the pallet on the spot and briefed the shift. Facilities manager to review the forklift route by month end.

Scored here as one point per question with N/A left out. In the app each answer carries the points set on the template, so change them after you clone it if your plant weighs some checks more.

Fire Door and Fire Exit Inspection

Inspection, weekly

Building or zone
Building 1, zone B

Doors

  1. Fire doors close fully and latchYes
  2. Doors are not wedged openNo

    Comment: Fire door between the paint mix room and stores wedged open with a pallet so forklifts can pass through.

    Photo attached to the No

  3. Seals and hinges are intactYes
  4. No holes in the door or frameYes
Drawn from this template's own questions, not a screenshot of the app. Illustrative answers.

When to use it

  • Once a week.
  • The person responsible for the area or equipment answers each question on the spot.
  • Each record starts with: Building or zone.

How it is scored

The template is built with points per answer and a pass mark of 90. In this library every audit is set to pass at 80 and every inspection at 90. Each submitted inspection shows its score and pass or fail, and every No is flagged with its photo and comment.

Change the points or the pass mark after you clone it. How rules and scoring work.

Read and print

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FAQ

Fire door and fire exit inspection checklist: common questions

  1. Weekly per building or zone as built, between the documented yearly inspections under NFPA 80. Walk it again after any building work near a door, after a layout or racking change, after a forklift strikes a door or frame, and in busy weeks when stock piles up in corridors. A door that was wedged last week deserves a look every shift until the habit stops.

  2. Facilities, EHS or the shift supervisor, zone by zone. They need to know which doors are rated, how a closer and latch should feel and where the exit routes run. A failed check goes to the facilities manager for the repair and the EHS lead reviews it. Repairs to a rated door should be done by someone trained on fire door hardware.

  3. A fail means a rated door is just an opening in a fire, or people cannot get out. Remove the wedge and clear the route before you move on. A door that does not latch, a hole in the frame or a dark exit sign gets a work order with an owner and a date the same day. In this template every No is flagged and asks for a photo and a comment, and an inspection that scores under its pass mark of 90 is a fail.

  4. Keep the zone, date, each door by its number with the finding, a photo, and the work order that closed it. The week to week record matters: a door that is wedged every Friday is a traffic problem, not a door problem, and the record is what gets the route or the hardware changed. In LeanSuite each submitted inspection is stored with its score, its pass or fail, and the photo and comment on every No.

  5. 8 questions in 2 sections: doors and exits. Every question is answered Yes, No or N/A.

Use this template in LeanSuite

It is ready in the Template Marketplace inside Lean Creator as “Fire Door and Fire Exit Inspection”. Clone it into your plant, change any question, then schedule it to a person, role or asset with reminders. Auditors complete it on a phone or tablet, with photo evidence where required.

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