The Building Inspections module manages various types of inspection and review activities with data on inspections, compliance visits and violations. You can use it to record data on plans reviews, to track new construction testing, regularly scheduled fire inspections and to record re-inspections for violation compliance.
- Schedule an inspection and enter frequency.
- Update an inspection and record violations and citations.
- Enter recommendations and referrals during an inspection.
- Reassign a group of inspections at one time.
- Electronically sign an inspection record.
While using the Building Inspections module, you also have access to the premise inventory/pre-plan data of the site you are working on. Any changes that you make to this information are carried into the database and are reflected in all other system modules that use or display pre-plan data.
The Inspection module provides Hot Lists. These are lists of codes, built by your department, of frequently used violations, citations and recommendations based upon Fire Codes. You can easily select from the hot lists to transfer the text into the inspection record. Also provided is a feature to print lists of inspections based on search criteria you select - such as, Inspections Due By, Fire District, Inspection Type, etc.
Visual Fire's Graphical User Interface makes it easy to capture data for fire inspections and follow-ups. Before you start your inspection, Visual Fire can pull information from both the Master Location Database and Premise module, and from previous inspections, to eliminate tedious data re-entry. Visual Fire supports many types of inspections and tracks individual violations and their compliance. It records recommendations, referrals, and citations.
Never retype another code: You can cut and paste directly from all electronic codes, including SBCCI, BOCA, NFPA and NEC. For the quickest code entry, place your most frequently encountered violations on your Hot List for entry with a click of the mouse. Local codes (or codes not available electronically) can be added to Visual Fire's Fire Codes module. Use the codes for reference and cut and paste the sections as needed.
Update fire preplans during the inspection: While on site, inspectors can update the fire preplanning information that is stored in the Premise database. This ensures that response personnel will have the most current data.
Automate inspection scheduling: Let Visual Fire track the scheduling of routine inspections. View inspections due in your area within the next 30, 60 or 90 days. Configure Visual Fire to show only those inspections of interest to you, by geographic area, inspection type or due date.
Visual Fire's Building Inspections module provides the ability to configure Visual Fire to show only inspections by geographic area, inspection type, inspector or by due date and it is integrated with Systems Inspections and stores inspections entered from the Systems Inspections module.