Keep the fire logbook
Checks on British Standard rhythms, failures that stay red until cleared, and the drills, PEEPs and marshals beside them.
6 min read · Last reviewed 18 August 2026
Run the checks
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Open the building’s logbook — or Fire safety → Logbook for the whole estate’s checks in one place.
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The check catalogue knows the standard rhythms — weekly alarm tests, monthly emergency lighting, annual extinguishers — so what is due builds itself.
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Record each check as a pass or a failure, with notes and photos where they help.
When a check fails
A failure holds a red failed state on that item until a later pass clears it — it cannot scroll away into history.
A follow-up action is raised by default, owned and due-dated like any other action.
The building record and the register both show the failed state, so nobody has to remember which extinguisher was the problem.
Note: This is the difference from a paper logbook: paper records that a test happened; the register holds the state the test left behind.
Drills, PEEPs and marshals
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Record drills with their outcomes — date, duration, what went wrong, what to fix.
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Keep PEEPs for the people who need them, on the building they apply to.
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Track marshal cover per building against a target; competence reads from training records, or free-text for people outside the system.
The two outputs worth knowing
The daily digest emails what is due across the estate — the morning list, without opening the app.
The night pack renders the whole building file to one PDF for the person on call: FRA summary, checks, doors, PEEPs, marshals.