# Your fire life safety inspections are due on schedules set by three different authorities.

![A life safety manager checking certificate of fitness records against an open sprinkler impairment on a building management screen, used to show where fire watch duties are tracked.](https://neurobird.com/firelife/firelife-hero.webp)
*The duty attaches to a certificate, not to a job title.*

> Fire life safety inspection is the periodic examination of a building against adopted fire and life safety codes, covering exits, alarms, sprinklers, occupant load, emergency procedures and the certificates held by the people responsible for them. The codes are national standards adopted by state rule and then applied locally, so a single building can answer to a state minimum standard, a municipal fire code and a fire chief's specific order at the same time.

- URL: https://neurobird.com/firelife/
- Product: Neurobird Fire Life Safety Inspection Compliance Platform
- Niche: fire life safety inspection
- Buyer: property managers and fire protection contractors
- Status: in development, open for early access
- Updated: 2026-08-26

## What Neurobird Fire Life Safety Inspection does

- Record which code edition and which local orders actually apply to each building, not just its address.
- Track certificates of fitness against the people holding them and the duties those certificates unlock.
- Open a fire watch as a dated record when a protection system goes out of service, and close it deliberately.
- Hold inspection findings and their corrections together so a re-inspection starts from evidence.

## How it works

1. **Establish** Each building records the adopted standards and local orders binding it, so an inspection is measured against the right edition rather than the newest one.
2. **Operate** Impairments open a fire watch record naming the certified individual, and emergency training duties are tracked against the occupancies that trigger them.
3. **Inspect** Findings, corrections and re-inspections stay on the building record, so the next visit begins where the last one ended.

## From the source material

> The owner/ representative is required to contact the fire code official to conduct a full fire safety inspection before such permits being issued.

Source: City of Richmond, fire and emergency services permits, https://www.rva.gov/fire-emergency-services/permits

## Industry context

- **901.7.2.2** A fire watch for an out of service fire protection system must be maintained by a fire guard holding a Fire Department certificate of fitness. (source: New York City Fire Department fire code guide, https://www.nyc.gov/assets/fdny/downloads/pdf/business/nyc-fire-code-guide.pdf)
- **F-01** The fire watch must be performed by a Fire Department certified fire guard holding the F-01 certificate of fitness. (source: New York City Fire Department fire code guide, https://www.nyc.gov/assets/fdny/downloads/pdf/business/nyc-fire-code-guide.pdf)
- **404.2** Employees in the occupancies listed at section 404.2 of the adopted fire code must be trained in fire emergency procedures. (source: Georgia Rules 120-3-3, https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/120-3-3)
- **25-2-4** Rules adopted by the Safety Fire Commissioner have the force of law and apply statewide as the state minimum fire safety standards. (source: Georgia Rules 120-3-3, https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/120-3-3)
- **2017** Multi floor fire emergency markings carried an earlier compliance deadline in March 2017 than other marking requirements. (source: New York City Fire Department fire code guide, https://www.nyc.gov/assets/fdny/downloads/pdf/business/nyc-fire-code-guide.pdf)

## Pricing

- Single building: $150 per month
- Portfolio: $400 per month
- Multi state: $800 per month

## Questions

### What is a fire life safety inspection?

It is a periodic examination of a building against the fire and life safety codes that the relevant authorities have adopted. An inspector looks at means of egress, alarm and sprinkler systems, occupant load, emergency planning and the training and certificates of the people responsible. Because codes are adopted by reference on particular dates, the inspection is measured against a specific edition of a specific standard, not against fire safety in general.

### Who can perform a fire watch?

Not just anyone on site. Where a fire protection system is out of service, the fire code requires a fire watch maintained by a fire guard who holds a Fire Department certificate of fitness, identified in New York City as the F-01 certificate. The watch means patrolling the affected areas for fire while the system is impaired. Because the duty attaches to a certificate rather than a job title, knowing who currently holds one is an operational necessity rather than an HR detail.

### Why does the code edition matter?

Because the binding rule is the standard as adopted, not the latest published version. State rules give adopted standards statewide force, and buildings are commonly assessed against the standards in effect when their plans were received. A building can therefore be lawfully compliant with an older edition while a newer one exists, which is impossible to explain to an inspector without a record of which edition applies.

### What triggers employee emergency training?

Occupancy type. The adopted fire code lists occupancies whose employees must be trained in fire emergency procedures, and the duty follows the use of the space rather than its size. A building with several tenants can therefore carry the obligation in some areas and not others, which is exactly the kind of distinction a single building level calendar entry cannot express.

### Is the software available now?

No. It is in development and open for early access. We are building the code adoption and certificate model with life safety managers who deal with more than one authority.

## Sources

- [Georgia Rules 120-3-3, state minimum fire safety standards](https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/120-3-3)
- [New York City Fire Department, fire code guide](https://www.nyc.gov/assets/fdny/downloads/pdf/business/nyc-fire-code-guide.pdf)
- [California Office of the State Fire Marshal, fire and life safety](https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/fire-and-life-safety)
- [Placer County, fire life safety inspection payment](https://www.placer.ca.gov/10211/Fire-Life-Safety-Inspection-Payment)
- [City of Richmond, fire and emergency services permits](https://www.rva.gov/fire-emergency-services/permits)

## Contact

- office@neurobird.com
- https://neurobird.com/