Pass the inspection: 10 AI skills for the paperwork that keeps you open

fire-log

the weekly checks and the six-monthly ones

How the two work together

Claude thinks it through. Paste the Claude prompt into Claude Code, or drop the folder into your skills folder. Claude does the judgement: what to look for, what is worth doing, what is right.

Codex gets it done. At the hand-off point Claude runs Codex on your machine with one command and passes it the Codex prompt. Codex does the mechanical part and hands the result back. Claude checks it before you see it.

No API key to set up: Claude calls the Codex you already have installed. If Codex is not installed, Claude does that half itself and tells you.

Prompt for Claude

---
name: fire-log
description: Builds the fire safety log your premises actually needs — the daily walk, the weekly alarm test, the monthly emergency lighting and extinguisher round, the six-monthly service by a competent person, the annual service and drill — with every interval traced to the published source it came from, the faults column that makes it evidence rather than decoration, and an honest note wherever the interval comes from a British Standard nobody can read for free. Use when you have no log book, or you have one that has been ticked without anyone testing anything.
---

# The weekly checks, the six-monthly ones, and a page that proves you did them

You tell me what your premises is — a restaurant, a bar, a hotel, a cafe, a pub, a members' club, an events venue — what fire kit is actually fitted, who is on site on a Tuesday afternoon and who is on at eleven on a Saturday, and whether anyone sleeps there. Photos of the alarm panel, the extinguisher tags, the last engineer's certificate, the log book somebody started in March and gave up on, all fine. You get back a fire safety log built around your building: a named responsible person, a dated list of every fitted system, a check schedule split into daily, weekly, monthly, six-monthly and annual, a named person against each one, a faults-and-actions column, and a source written beside every interval so that when someone asks "who says weekly?", the answer is on the page. It is the paperwork half of fire safety. It does not replace your fire risk assessment, and it is not a substitute for a competent engineer.

## What it does

1. **Name the responsible person first, and name everyone else who has control, because in hospitality that is almost never one person.** The log opens with the trading name, the full address, the parts of the building you control and the parts you do not, and the name of the person the law is talking to. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 3, makes that "the employer, if the workplace is to any extent under his control", and where the premises are not a workplace under that limb, "the person who has control of the premises (as occupier or otherwise) in connection with the carrying on by him of a trade, business or other undertaking (for profit or not)". GOV.UK puts the same thing in owner's English: "You're responsible for fire safety in business or other non-domestic premises if you're: an employer, the owner, the landlord, an occupier, anyone else with control of the premises." That list is why a leasehold restaurant under flats, a bar in a shopping parade, or a hotel with a franchised spa needs a line naming the landlord or managing agent and saying which systems are theirs — the alarm panel serving the whole building very often is. Get this wrong and you will keep a beautiful log of equipment you do not control while nobody keeps one for the equipment you do.

2. **Anchor the log to the fire risk assessment, and check whether yours is written down — the threshold most guidance still quotes was abolished in 2023.** A log is the evidence that the measures in your risk assessment are being maintained; without the assessment it is a list of ticks with nothing behind it. Article 9(1) sets the duty: "The responsible person must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed for the purpose of identifying the general fire precautions he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed on him by or under this Order." Article 9(6), as substituted by section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 with effect from 1 October 2023, now reads: "As soon as practicable after the assessment is made or reviewed, the responsible person must make a record of the assessment or review, which must in particular include the information prescribed by paragraph (7)." There is no longer any "five or more employees" or "licensed premises" condition on that duty, and section 156(3)(b) also deleted the word "significant" from what must be recorded. A great deal of published material, including HM Government's own 2006 guide for places of assembly, still carries the old threshold. The log records the date of the current assessment and who wrote it; it does not write the assessment.

3. **Write the arrangements down once, as a page, so the log has an owner and a deputy rather than a habit.** Article 11(1) requires the responsible person to "make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate, having regard to the size of his undertaking and the nature of its activities, for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures", and article 11(2) is now simply "The responsible person must record the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1)" — the qualifying words were struck out by section 156(5) of the Building Safety Act 2022. One page: who does the weekly test and who does it on their day off, who holds the service contracts, who calls the engineer when something fails, where the log lives, and who reads it. In hospitality the log dies in exactly two places: a general manager leaves and takes the routine with them, or the checks belong to "whoever is in", which means nobody. A named deputy on the page is the whole fix.

4. **Build the daily walk into opening, because the commonest fire fault in a busy venue is a blocked or bolted exit.** HM Government's guide for small and medium places of assembly puts this at the top of its maintenance schedule: "Remove bolts, padlocks and security devices from fire exits ensure that doors on escape routes swing freely and close fully, and check escape routes to ensure they are clear from obstructions and combustible materials." Make it a line on the opening checklist with a signature, not a separate form nobody fills in, and list your own real trouble spots by name: the fire door wedged open to the cellar, the corridor where the delivery crates land, the exit behind the smoking area, the yard gate that gets padlocked at the end of the night and forgotten at the start of the next one. GOV.UK's own list of the regular checks you must carry out includes "all escape routes are clear and the floor is in good condition", "all fire escapes can be opened easily", "automatic fire doors close correctly" and "fire exit signs are in the right place". A daily walk that takes four minutes is worth more than any other line in this document.

5. **The weekly one: test the alarm, from a different call point each week, and write down which one.** The same HM Government guide states the interval plainly: "Test fire detection and warning systems and manually-operated warning devices weekly following the manufacturer's or installer's instructions." The log records the date, the time, the call point or detector used and its zone, that the sounders were heard everywhere they should be, who tested it, and how long it took to reset. Rotating the call point is what turns fifty-two identical entries into coverage of the whole system over a year, and it is the detail an inspector reads first. Two hospitality-specific warnings belong on the page. Pick a fixed weekly slot away from service and tell staff and, in a hotel, guests — the guide notes that "False alarms from electrical fire warning systems are a major problem and result in many unwanted calls to the fire and rescue service each year", and an untrailed test at eight on a Friday trains a room full of people to ignore the sound. And if you are monitored by an alarm receiving centre, the log needs a line for putting the signal on test and taking it off again. The detailed weekly test procedure lives in BS 5839-1, which is a purchasable British Standard, not free law; this skill will not paraphrase its contents.

6. **The monthly ones: emergency lighting, and a walk-round of every extinguisher.** For lighting the guide is explicit: "Test all emergency lighting systems and safety torches to make sure they have enough charge and illumination according to the manufacturer's or supplier's instructions." Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service states the same interval and its annual partner: "As a minimum, emergency lighting systems should be tested monthly and subject to an annual service/test, for the duration specified in the relevant British Standard." Record every luminaire that failed, by location, not just a pass — in a venue with a dark stairwell to the cellar or a lit route through a car park, one dead fitting is the whole point of the check. Alongside it, walk every extinguisher: is it on its bracket in the right place, is the seal unbroken, is the gauge in the green, is it the right type for that spot. GOV.UK requires that "any non-automatic fire-fighting equipment so provided is easily accessible, simple to use and indicated by signs" in article 13(1)(b) of the Order, and the extinguisher that has been moved behind the chest freezer fails that without anyone touching it. The interval for the periodic visual inspection and the basic service of an extinguisher sits in BS 5306-3, which could not be read for this skill; the log therefore names the interval your own service contract and your risk assessment set, and says where it came from.

7. **The six-monthly one: a competent person on the detection and warning system, and a definition of "competent" you can hold someone to.** HM Government's guide sets it as a six-monthly item: "A competent person should test and maintain the fire-detection and warning system." The sleeping accommodation guide, the one that covers guest houses and B&Bs, extends the same six-monthly line to emergency lighting as well. Article 13(4) of the Order defines the word rather than leaving it to the contractor: "A person is to be regarded as competent for the purposes of paragraph (3)(b) where he has sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other qualities to enable him properly to implement the measures referred to in that paragraph." So the log holds the engineer's name, their firm, any third-party certification they claim, the date, the certificate number, and — the part that matters — every defect they recorded and what you did about each one. A service certificate filed with three outstanding faults and no follow-up is worse evidence than no certificate, because it proves you were told.

8. **The annual ones: everything else serviced, plus a drill and the training that goes with it.** The guide's annual line is broad: "The emergency lighting and all firefighting equipment, fire alarms and other installed systems should be tested and maintained by a competent person." Beneath it, GOV.UK is direct about the drill: "You should carry out at least one fire drill per year and record the results." Record more than the fact that it happened — the date and time, how many staff and how many guests or customers were in, how long full evacuation took, which exit route jammed, who did not know their job, and what you changed. Training is a duty in its own right: article 21(1) requires that employees be provided with adequate safety training "at the time when they are first employed", article 21(2)(b) that it "be repeated periodically where appropriate", and 21(2)(e) that it "take place during working hours". In a trade with seasonal staff, agency cover and high turnover, the training column is the one that quietly empties over a summer, so the log lists names and induction dates rather than a count.

9. **Record the faults and what you did about them, set the review triggers, and keep the log where it will be read.** The Order's maintenance duty in article 17(1) is that equipment must be "subject to a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair", and GOV.UK's list of checks includes the one owners skip: "you record any faults in systems and equipment". A log of unbroken passes is the least believable document in the building. Every fault gets a date found, who was told, what was done, the date it was closed, and the temporary measure that covered the gap. Then a short trigger list for when the risk assessment must be looked at again rather than waiting for a date, taken from article 9(3): where "there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid" or "there has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates including when the premises, special, technical and organisational measures, or organisation of the work undergo significant changes, extensions, or conversions". In practice that means a refit, a new extraction canopy, a change of layout, a marquee, a new sleeping room, a change of licensable activity, or an incident. HM Government's own advice on keeping it all together is mild but correct — "You will find it useful to keep a log book of all maintenance and testing" — and the log is what your local fire and rescue authority reads, because GOV.UK says that authority "visits premises to check the fire risk assessment and fire prevention measures are appropriate".

## Then it checks

1. Every fire safety system and item of equipment actually fitted in the premises appears in the inventory with a location, and every check line in the schedule points at something in that inventory. Nothing in either one is orphaned, and any system controlled by a landlord or managing agent is marked as theirs with a name beside it.
2. Every interval in the schedule has a named source written next to it, or the words "set by our fire risk assessment / service contract" where no free published source states it. No interval appears with no provenance, and nothing sourced to a British Standard is presented as if the standard had been read.
3. Every recurring check names a person or role and a named deputy, states where the entry is written, and has a column for the result that can record a failure as easily as a pass.
4. The log contains a faults and actions section with date found, who was informed, action taken, date closed, and the interim measure — and it is not empty unless the premises genuinely has no recorded fault, in which case the log says so in one line.
5. The front page records the date of the current fire risk assessment, who carried it out, whether it is written down, and the trigger list for reviewing it. The log does not attempt to be the risk assessment.
6. The document names the nation whose law it is written against, states in one line that Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate regimes, and states that it is a working document for the owner's fire risk assessor or fire and rescue authority to check.

Any check fails: name it, redo that step once. Failed twice: say what is wrong and stop.

## Rules
- Public information only.
- Never invent a fact, a number or a quote.
- Anything sent in someone's name says whose name it is.
- Never write a testing or servicing interval that did not come from a published source you can name on the page. Most of the intervals people recite — weekly alarm tests, monthly emergency lighting, annual extinguisher servicing — trace ultimately to British Standards such as BS 5839-1 for detection and alarm systems and BS 5306-3 for portable extinguishers, and those standards are sold, not published free. Where the interval could only be confirmed from a fetchable official or fire authority page, cite that page. Where it could not be confirmed at all, say the interval is commonly cited, say the standard could not be read, and leave the owner to confirm it with their engineer. An invented interval is the most dangerous thing this skill could produce, because it will be printed, signed weekly by staff, and shown to an inspector as evidence.
- A recalled interval is not law. Almost none of these intervals appear in the Fire Safety Order itself; the Order requires maintenance in an efficient state and leaves the schedule to the risk assessment and to standards. Never write "the law requires weekly testing".
- Never describe a log, a premises or a business as compliant, approved, adequate or sufficient. Whether the fire precautions are suitable is judged by the enforcing authority against this building and how it is used.
- Never present the log as a fire risk assessment, and never let it quietly become one. They are different documents with different duties, and an owner who believes the log is the assessment has the more important one missing.
- Fire safety law is not the same across the UK. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies in England and Wales. Scotland runs on the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006; Northern Ireland on the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 and the Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010. The duties rhyme but the article numbers, the guidance and the enforcing body do not. Say which nation the document is written for on its front page.
- The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 are not a general hospitality duty and must not be presented as one. Their core requirements attach to high-rise residential buildings, and a hotel, pub or restaurant is caught by them only where it forms part of such a building.
- This output is a working document prepared for the owner's fire risk assessor, fire safety engineer or local fire and rescue authority to check before it is relied on. It is not legal advice, and it does not determine whether a business complies with fire safety law.

## Built from
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 3 (Meaning of 'responsible person')", UK Statutory Instruments 2005 No. 1541, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/3, read 15 September 2026: the definition quoted in step 1, and the reason the log names landlords and managing agents as well as the operator.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 9 (Risk assessment)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/9, read 15 September 2026: the assessment duty in 9(1) and the recording duty in 9(6) and 9(7) as substituted with effect from 1 October 2023, quoted in step 2, and the review triggers in 9(3) quoted in step 9.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 11 (Fire safety arrangements)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/11, read 15 September 2026: both paragraphs quoted in step 3, including the now-unconditional recording duty in 11(2).
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 13 (Fire-fighting and fire detection)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/13, read 15 September 2026: the equipment duty in 13(1) quoted in step 6 and the definition of a competent person in 13(4) quoted in step 7.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 17 (Maintenance)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/17, read 15 September 2026: the maintenance standard quoted in step 9, which is the duty the whole log exists to evidence.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 21 (Training)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/21, read 15 September 2026: the induction, repetition and working-hours requirements quoted in step 8.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 32 (Offences)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/32, read 15 September 2026: the offence of failing to comply with the fire safety duties in articles 8 to 22B where that failure places a person at risk of death or serious injury, which is why the rules refuse to call any log compliant.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "Building Safety Act 2022, section 156", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/156, read 15 September 2026: the amendments quoted in step 2 that rewrote article 9(6), deleted "significant" from article 9(7)(a) and removed the qualifying words from article 11(2), in force 1 October 2023.
- GOV.UK, "Fire safety in the workplace: Who's responsible", https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities, read 15 September 2026: the plain-English list of responsible people quoted in step 1, the definition of non-domestic premises, and the statement that different rules apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- GOV.UK, "Fire safety in the workplace: Fire risk assessments", https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities/fire-risk-assessments, read 15 September 2026: the five steps and the sentence "You must keep a written record of your fire risk assessment", which is what step 2 checks the owner against.
- GOV.UK, "Fire safety in the workplace: Fire safety equipment, drills and training", https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities/fire-safety-equipment-drills-and-training, read 15 September 2026: the list of regular checks quoted in steps 4 and 9, including "you record any faults in systems and equipment", and the annual fire drill line quoted in step 8.
- GOV.UK, "Fire safety in the workplace: Enforcement, appeals and penalties", https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities/enforcement-appeals-and-penalties, read 15 September 2026: the statement that the local fire and rescue authority visits premises to check the fire risk assessment and fire prevention measures, quoted in step 9.
- HM Government / GOV.UK, "Fire safety risk assessment: small and medium places of assembly (accessible)", https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-risk-assessment-small-and-medium-places-of-assembly/fire-safety-risk-assessment-small-and-medium-places-of-assembly-accessible, published 5 June 2006, last updated 28 August 2024, read 15 September 2026: the daily, weekly, monthly, six-monthly and annual maintenance lines quoted in steps 4 to 8, the log book sentence and the false alarm sentence, and the statement that the guide applies to England and Wales only.
- HM Government / GOV.UK, "Fire safety risk assessment: sleeping accommodation (accessible)", https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-risk-assessment-sleeping-accommodation/fire-safety-risk-assessment-sleeping-accommodation-accessible, published 5 June 2006, last updated 12 September 2023, read 15 September 2026: the six-monthly line that extends competent-person servicing to emergency lighting in premises with sleeping accommodation, quoted in step 7, and the scope sentence covering guest houses and bed and breakfasts.
- Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, "Active and passive fire protection", https://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/fire-protection/business-owner-landlord-or-employee/active-and-passive-fire-protection/, read 15 September 2026: the monthly-and-annual emergency lighting interval quoted in step 6, and the naming of BS 5839-1 and BS 5306 as the standards behind the alarm and extinguisher regimes.
- BSI Knowledge, "BS 5839-1:2013 Fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings - Code of practice for design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of systems in non-domestic premises", published 31 March 2013, https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/fire-detection-and-fire-alarm-systems-for-buildings-code-of-practice-for-design-installation-commissioning-and-maintenance-of-systems-in-non-domestic-premises, read 15 September 2026: confirmation that the standard behind weekly alarm testing is sold rather than published free, which is why step 5 refuses to paraphrase its procedure.
- BSI, "BS 5306-3:2017 Fire extinguishing installations and equipment on premises. Commissioning and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers. Code of practice", published 31 October 2017, https://landingpage.bsigroup.com/LandingPage/Standard?UPI=000000000030324855, read 15 September 2026: confirmation that the extinguisher servicing standard is purchase-only, which is why step 6 sets the interval from the owner's own contract and risk assessment instead.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, regulation 3", UK Statutory Instruments 2022 No. 547, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/547/regulation/3/made, read 15 September 2026: the definition of a high-rise residential building as one "containing two or more sets of domestic premises" at least 18 metres tall or of at least seven storeys, which is why the rules refuse to present those regulations as a general hospitality duty.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "Fire (Scotland) Act 2005, section 53 (Duties of employers to employees)", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/5/section/53, read 15 September 2026, and Scottish Government, "Non-domestic fire safety", https://www.gov.scot/policies/fire-and-rescue/non-domestic-fire-safety/, read 15 September 2026: the separate Scottish regime named in the rules.
- Legislation.gov.uk, "The Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, article 25", https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/1254/article/25/made, read 15 September 2026: the separate Northern Ireland employer duty named in the rules.

Prompt for Codex

# fire-log

## You are given
A folder of inputs from a UK hospitality premises: photographs of the alarm panel and its zone chart, extinguisher tags and service labels, the emergency lighting test switch, the last engineer's certificates, a log book somebody started in March and abandoned, a lease or licence naming a landlord or managing agent, the fire risk assessment or its front page, a rota, and a written description of the building, who is on site at three on a Tuesday and at eleven on a Saturday, and whether anyone sleeps there. Claude has already decided which UK nation the document is written for, who the responsible person is and who else has control, which systems belong to the landlord, and which intervals it could trace to a source it actually read. That decided material arrives as a text, CSV or Markdown file in the same folder, giving each check, its frequency, and either the source named beside it or the words `not sourced, to be confirmed with our engineer`. Treat that file as the material to transcribe, not as something to complete.

## Produce
Write into an `output/` folder next to the inputs:

1. `responsible-persons.csv` - one row per party who has any control of any part of the premises. Columns exactly, in this order:
`party_ref,role_as_worded_in_the_inputs,name,organisation,parts_of_the_building_controlled,systems_controlled,is_landlord_or_managing_agent,contact_as_supplied,source_file`
 - `is_landlord_or_managing_agent` is `yes` or `no`. A building-wide alarm panel, a shared escape stair or a shared riser that the inputs say belongs to a landlord or agent gets its own row here, named.
 - Anything the inputs do not state is `NOT SUPPLIED`.
2. `equipment-inventory.csv` - one row per system or item of equipment actually fitted. Columns exactly: `item_ref,system_or_equipment,type_as_supplied,location,zone_or_panel_reference,quantity,controlled_by_party_ref,install_date_as_supplied,last_service_date_as_supplied,certificate_reference,source_file`. `item_ref` is `F-001` upwards. An item photographed but never described still gets a row with `NOT SUPPLIED` in what is missing.
3. `check-schedule.csv` - the spine of the whole job, one row per recurring check. Columns exactly, in this order:
`check_ref,item_ref,check_description,frequency_as_supplied,interval_source_named_in_input,source_type,responsible_person,named_deputy,where_the_entry_is_written,what_is_recorded,what_to_do_on_a_failure,status,source_file`
 - `source_type` is one of exactly `published source named in the inputs`, `set by our fire risk assessment`, `set by our service contract`, `set by the manufacturer's or installer's instructions`, `not sourced, to be confirmed with our engineer`.
 - `frequency_as_supplied` is transcribed character for character from the decided material. A frequency arriving with no source beside it is written with `source_type` of `not sourced, to be confirmed with our engineer`, `interval_source_named_in_input` left empty, `status` set to `interval not sourced`, and the row added to file 11.
 - Every row points at an `item_ref` in file 2, and every item in file 2 carries at least one check row.
4. `daily-opening-walk-sheet.csv` - blank, sized for one calendar month. Columns exactly: `date,time_of_walk,escape_routes_clear_yes_no,fire_doors_close_fully_yes_no,exits_open_easily_yes_no,bolts_padlocks_or_wedges_removed_yes_no,exit_signs_visible_and_lit_yes_no,trouble_spot_checked,fault_found_yes_no,fault_ref,who_walked_initials`. Below the table, a numbered list of the premises' own named trouble spots transcribed from the inputs, one per line, with no spot invented and none dropped.
5. `weekly-alarm-test-record.csv` - blank, sized for fifty-two weeks. Columns exactly: `week_commencing,date_of_test,time_of_test,call_point_or_detector_used,zone,sounders_heard_everywhere_expected_yes_no,alarm_receiving_centre_put_on_test_yes_no,alarm_receiving_centre_taken_off_test_yes_no,time_to_reset,fault_found_yes_no,fault_ref,who_tested_initials`. The `call_point_or_detector_used` column ships empty so the tester records which one was used and the rotation is visible across the year.
6. `monthly-checks-record.csv` - blank, sized for twelve months, covering emergency lighting and the extinguisher round. Columns exactly: `month,date_of_check,check_kind,item_ref,location,result,luminaire_or_extinguisher_failed_yes_no,on_its_bracket_and_in_place_yes_no,seal_unbroken_yes_no,gauge_in_the_green_yes_no,correct_type_for_the_location_yes_no,fault_ref,who_checked_initials`. `check_kind` is `emergency lighting` or `extinguisher`. One row per item per month, so a failure is recorded by location rather than as a single tick for the building.
7. `servicing-and-certificates-register.csv` - one row per service visit evidenced in the inputs. Columns exactly: `service_ref,item_ref,date_of_visit,engineer_name,firm,third_party_certification_claimed,certificate_number,interval_this_visit_satisfies,defects_recorded_by_the_engineer,defect_refs_raised,next_visit_due_as_stated_on_the_certificate,source_file`. Every defect the engineer wrote down is carried into file 9 and its `fault_ref` values listed in `defect_refs_raised`.
8. `drills-and-training-register.csv` - one row per event evidenced in the inputs. Columns exactly: `event_ref,event_kind,date,time,who_led_it,staff_present_count,staff_names,guests_or_customers_present_count,full_evacuation_time,route_or_exit_that_did_not_work,who_did_not_know_their_job,what_was_changed_as_a_result,source_file`. `event_kind` is `drill`, `induction training` or `refresher training`. For training rows the register lists names and induction dates, never a headcount alone.
9. `faults-and-actions-register.csv` - one row per fault. Columns exactly: `fault_ref,date_found,item_ref,how_it_was_found,fault_as_described,who_was_told,date_told,interim_measure_while_it_was_open,action_taken,date_closed,open_or_closed,source_file`. Faults recorded on an engineer's certificate are entered here with the certificate as `source_file`. `open_or_closed` is `open` unless an input states the fix was completed.
10. `review-triggers.csv` - columns exactly: `trigger,why_it_triggers_a_review,who_must_be_told,source_file`. One row per trigger named in the decided material. Never a trigger invented, never one dropped.
11. `intervals-to-be-confirmed.md` - a numbered list of every check whose interval arrived unsourced, whose source was not named, or which the decided material did not mention at all. For each, give the `check_ref`, the item, the frequency as supplied if any, and one sentence saying what the owner must obtain from their fire risk assessor, fire safety engineer or service contractor. Also list every system in `equipment-inventory.csv` with no check row, every check row pointing at equipment the inputs do not evidence, and every conflict found between a supplied template or guide and the current law. This file is the safety valve of the job and is never empty by choice.
12. `fire-safety-log.html` - the log as one printable document, A4 portrait, black on white, 11pt minimum, margins at least 10mm, in this section order: premises and nation, who controls what, fire risk assessment details, arrangements page, equipment inventory, check schedule, daily walk, weekly alarm test, monthly checks, servicing and certificates, drills and training, faults and actions, review triggers, intervals to be confirmed. The front page carries the trading name, the full address, the parts of the building controlled and not controlled, the UK nation the document is written for, the date of the current fire risk assessment, who carried it out, whether the inputs say it is recorded, and the next review date, each read from the inputs or written as `NOT SUPPLIED`.
13. `README.md` - what was read, the count of parties, systems, checks, faults, drills and training entries, how many intervals carry a named source and how many do not, the UK nation printed on the document, and what could not be transcribed.

## Rules
- **Never write a testing, inspection or servicing interval that cannot be traced to a source named in the inputs or in the decided material.** Every interval in `check-schedule.csv` carries a `source_type` from the fixed list, and where that is `not sourced, to be confirmed with our engineer` no figure is presented as settled anywhere else in the pack, including the printable HTML. An invented interval is the most dangerous thing this work could produce, because it will be printed, signed weekly by staff, and shown to an inspector as evidence.
- **Nothing may be attributed to BS 5839-1 or BS 5306-3, and no procedure from either may be paraphrased, summarised or reconstructed.** Both standards are sold rather than published free and neither was read. Where an interval is commonly recited but traces only to one of them, `frequency_as_supplied` holds the wording the decided material gives, `interval_source_named_in_input` stays empty, `source_type` is `not sourced, to be confirmed with our engineer` or `set by our service contract`, and the row goes in `intervals-to-be-confirmed.md`.
- **Never write, restore or transcribe a "five or more employees" or "licensed premises" threshold on recording the fire risk assessment or the fire safety arrangements.** That threshold was abolished on 1 October 2023 by section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 and the duty to record is now unconditional. A great deal of published material, including HM Government's own guide for places of assembly, still repeats it. Where a supplied template or guide carries it, transcribe nothing from that passage and record the conflict in `intervals-to-be-confirmed.md` naming the file it came from.
- Never write that the law requires a particular test frequency. Almost none of these intervals appear in the fire safety legislation itself; the duty is maintenance in an efficient state and the schedule comes from the risk assessment, the standards and the manufacturer's instructions.
- Never decide that anything is compliant, approved, adequate, sufficient, satisfactory, safe or signed off, and never decide that a fire risk assessment is adequate. Those words must not appear in any output. Whether the precautions are suitable is judged by the enforcing authority against this building and how it is used.
- **Never write a fire risk assessment, and never let the log become one.** The pack records the date of the current assessment, who wrote it and whether the inputs say it is recorded, and stops there. No output states a hazard, a risk rating, a finding or a recommended control measure.
- **Never write one document covering more than one UK nation.** The nation named in the decided material is printed on the front page. Fire safety law is not the same across England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the article numbers, the guidance and the enforcing body all differ. Never carry an interval, an article reference or a guidance quotation from one nation's regime into another's.
- Never present the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 as a general hospitality duty. Their core requirements attach to high-rise residential buildings, and these premises are caught only where the inputs show they form part of one.
- Never pre-fill a tick, a date, a time, a reading, an initial or a signature on any of files 4, 5 or 6, and never produce a sheet that can be completed before the check is made.
- Every entry in `faults-and-actions-register.csv` comes from the inputs. Never close a fault the inputs do not say was fixed, and never leave the register empty because the inputs contain no fault: if there is genuinely none, write one row saying so and citing the files read.
- Every figure, date, name and frequency in every output traces to the supplied input named in that row's `source_file` cell. Gaps go in `intervals-to-be-confirmed.md` or as `NOT SUPPLIED`, never filled with an estimate, a trade norm or a remembered interval.
- British English, £ where any cost appears, dates written as DD Month YYYY. No em dash characters anywhere. No emoji.
- Put this line at the top of `intervals-to-be-confirmed.md`, at the foot of `fire-safety-log.html` and at the end of `README.md`: "Working document prepared for the owner's fire risk assessor, fire safety engineer or local fire and rescue authority to check before it is relied on. It is not legal advice, it is not a fire risk assessment, and it does not determine whether a business complies with fire safety law."

## Return
The absolute path of each of the thirteen files, the number of parties with control and how many are a landlord or managing agent, the count of systems in the inventory, the count of checks split by `source_type`, how many intervals carry a named source and how many do not, the number of open faults, the number of drill and training entries, the UK nation printed on the document, and the number of entries in `intervals-to-be-confirmed.md`. State plainly that no interval was originated here, that nothing was attributed to a British Standard, and that no output decides whether anything is compliant.

Built from the best public work on this

Sources for fire-log

Everything below was opened and read on 15 September 2026. Nothing is cited that could not be loaded. Six things we wanted could not be read at all — two fire service pages, one scanned PDF, one appendix, and both of the British Standards that the intervals in this skill ultimately come from — and they are reported honestly at the end. That last point is the single most important thing about this skill: the famous fire safety intervals are not in the Act or the Order, they are in standards that are sold, and a skill that pretends otherwise will print a confident number that nobody checked.

1. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 3"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/3, read 15 September 2026.

This supplied step 1. The Order does not speak to "the business" or "the owner"; it speaks to a defined person. Article 3(a) makes that "the employer, if the workplace is to any extent under his control". Where that does not apply, article 3(b) reaches "the person who has control of the premises (as occupier or otherwise) in connection with the carrying on by him of a trade, business or other undertaking (for profit or not)", and failing that "the owner, where the person in control of the premises does not have control in connection with the carrying on by that person of a trade, business or other undertaking".

The phrase that earns its place in a hospitality log is "to any extent under his control". It means the duty is shared, not transferred, which is why step 1 makes the owner write down which systems belong to a landlord or managing agent. A pub in a parade, a restaurant beneath flats and a hotel with a concession all commonly sit on an alarm system somebody else maintains.

Where the skill departs: the Order uses "responsible person" as a term of art with no plural. The skill asks for a named individual plus a named deputy, which the Order does not require and which a lawyer would say confuses the duty-holder with the person doing the task. We did it anyway, because a log with only a corporate duty-holder on it is a log nobody performs, and the skill labels the deputy as an operational arrangement under article 11 rather than as a second responsible person.

2. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 9 (Risk assessment)"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/9, read 15 September 2026.

Two jobs. First, the duty the log evidences, article 9(1): "The responsible person must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed for the purpose of identifying the general fire precautions he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed on him by or under this Order."

Second, and this is the finding that changed the shape of step 2, the current text of article 9(6): "As soon as practicable after the assessment is made or reviewed, the responsible person must make a record of the assessment or review, which must in particular include the information prescribed by paragraph (7)." The page carries the amendment annotation showing paragraph (6) was substituted by the Building Safety Act 2022 with effect from 1 October 2023. Article 9(7) sets what that record contains: "The prescribed information is—(a) the findings of the assessment, including the measures which have been or will be taken by the responsible person pursuant to this Order; and (b) any group of persons identified by the assessment as being especially at risk."

Article 9(3) supplied the review triggers quoted in step 9: an assessment must be reviewed "regularly so as to keep it up to date and particularly if—(a) there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid; or (b) there has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates including when the premises, special, technical and organisational measures, or organisation of the work undergo significant changes, extensions, or conversions".

Where the skill departs: article 9 is about the assessment, and this skill deliberately does not write one. That is a separate document and a separate job, and conflating them is the most common structural error in downloaded fire paperwork — an owner ends up with a ticked log book and no assessment, and believes the important one is done. The skill records the assessment's date, author and whether it exists, and stops there.

3. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 11 (Fire safety arrangements)"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/11, read 15 September 2026.

This is the legal home of the log's arrangements page, step 3. Article 11(1): "The responsible person must make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate, having regard to the size of his undertaking and the nature of its activities, for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures." Article 11(2) now reads, in full, "The responsible person must record the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1)."

The page's amendment annotation records that words were omitted from paragraph (2) on 1 October 2023 by the Building Safety Act 2022, sections 156(5) and 170(4)(b)(c), via S.I. 2023/362 and S.I. 2023/914. That is the same de-thresholding as article 9: recording arrangements used to be conditional, and is now unconditional.

"Having regard to the size of his undertaking and the nature of its activities" is why the skill produces one page and not a management system. A forty-cover restaurant does not need a fire safety manual; it needs to know who does the Tuesday test when the general manager is on holiday.

Where the skill departs: the Order does not say the arrangements page must name individuals, and a large group operator would properly name roles instead. The skill asks for names because in independent hospitality the role and the person are the same thing, and "the duty manager" is how a routine becomes nobody's.

4. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 13 (Fire-fighting and fire detection)"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/13, read 15 September 2026.

Supplied two things. The equipment duty in 13(1), that where necessary the premises must be "to the extent that it is appropriate, equipped with appropriate fire-fighting equipment and with fire detectors and alarms" and that "any non-automatic fire-fighting equipment so provided is easily accessible, simple to use and indicated by signs" — the second half of which is quoted in step 6, because an extinguisher that has been shifted behind a freezer or hidden by a stack of chairs breaches it without anyone discharging it.

And the definition of competence in 13(4), quoted in step 7: "A person is to be regarded as competent for the purposes of paragraph (3)(b) where he has sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other qualities to enable him properly to implement the measures referred to in that paragraph." That is the answer to "who can service my alarm?" — not a named scheme, but a test the owner has to be able to defend.

Article 13(2) also supplied the reasoning behind the inventory in check 1, since what is appropriate is judged "having regard to the dimensions and use of the premises, the equipment contained on the premises, the physical and chemical properties of the substances likely to be present and the maximum number of persons who may be present at any one time".

Where the skill departs: 13(4)'s competence test is written for people nominated to carry out firefighting measures, not for contractors servicing equipment. The skill borrows it as a standard to hold a contractor to, which is an extension of its literal scope, and it is flagged here rather than in the skill because the practical advice is right even though the citation is being stretched. The skill does not name any third-party certification scheme as required, because none is.

5. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 17 (Maintenance)"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/17, read 15 September 2026.

The duty the entire log exists to evidence, quoted in step 9. Article 17(1): "Where necessary in order to safeguard the safety of relevant persons the responsible person must ensure that the premises and any facilities, equipment and devices provided in respect of the premises under this Order or, subject to paragraph (6), under any other enactment, including any enactment repealed or revoked by this Order, are subject to a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair."

Article 17(2) to (5) were also read and shaped step 1 rather than being quoted: they allow the responsible person to "make arrangements with the occupier of any other premises forming part of the building" to meet the maintenance duty, oblige that occupier to co-operate, and pull in the owner where the occupier is not also the owner. That is the multi-occupied building problem set out in statute, and it is exactly the position of a restaurant under flats.

Where the skill departs: article 17 names no interval at all. It requires "a suitable system of maintenance" and leaves what suitable means to the risk assessment and the standards. This is the reason for the hardest rule in the skill — that a recalled interval is not law — and the reason the skill will not let anyone write "the law requires weekly testing". The law requires efficient working order; weekly testing is how a standard says to achieve it.

6. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 21 (Training)"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/21, read 15 September 2026.

Step 8's training column. Article 21(1) requires adequate safety training "at the time when they are first employed" and on exposure to new or increased risks including a change of responsibilities, new work equipment, new technology or a new system of work. Article 21(2) sets the quality bar: the training must "include suitable and sufficient instruction and training on the appropriate precautions and actions to be taken by the employee in order to safeguard himself and other relevant persons on the premises", "be repeated periodically where appropriate", "be adapted to take account of any new or changed risks", "be provided in a manner appropriate to the risk identified by the risk assessment" and "take place during working hours".

"Take place during working hours" is quoted in the skill because in hospitality it is routinely breached in the other direction — training pushed to an unpaid half hour before a shift, which is both a duty failure and the reason nobody remembers it.

Where the skill departs: article 21(2)(b) says "repeated periodically where appropriate" and gives no period. The skill does not invent one. It ties refresher training to the annual drill because that is when gaps become visible, and labels that as a practical arrangement, not a legal interval.

7. Legislation.gov.uk, "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, article 32 (Offences)"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/article/32, read 15 September 2026.

Read to understand what is actually at stake, and it shaped the rules rather than a step. Article 32(1)(a) makes it an offence for a responsible person to "fail to comply with any requirement or prohibition imposed by articles 8 to 22B and 38 (fire safety duties) where that failure places one or more relevant persons at risk of death or serious injury in case of fire". Articles 9, 11, 13, 17 and 21 all sit inside that range. Article 32 also creates offences of making a false entry in a register, book, notice or other document required to be kept under the Order.

That last one is why the skill's faults column is not optional and why check 4 refuses an empty one without an explicit statement. A log signed weekly by somebody who did not test the alarm is not sloppy paperwork; it is a false entry in a document kept under the Order.

Where the skill departs: the skill does not reproduce penalty wording in the owner's document, and does not tell anyone what a particular breach would cost them. GOV.UK's own plain summary — "Minor penalties can be up to £5,000. Major penalties can have unlimited fines and up to 2 years in prison" — was read and deliberately left out of the log, because a compliance document that opens by threatening the reader gets filed unread.

8. Legislation.gov.uk, "Building Safety Act 2022, section 156"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/156, read 15 September 2026.

The amendment that makes most of the free fire safety guidance on the internet out of date, and the reason step 2 exists in the form it does. Section 156(3)(a) rewrites the recording duty: "in paragraph (6) for the words from 'record' to the end substitute 'make a record of the assessment or review, which must in particular include the information prescribed by paragraph (7).'" Section 156(3)(b) instructs "in paragraph (7)(a) omit 'significant'". Section 156(5): "In article 11(2) (fire safety arrangements) omit the words from 'where' to the end." Section 156(2) makes the consequential change of "22" to "22B" in article 5.

Taken together, these strip out the old conditions. The pre-2023 position was that only employers of five or more people, licensed premises, and premises under an alterations notice had to record the significant findings. The current position is that every responsible person must make a record, and it is the findings, not only the significant findings.

Where the skill departs: the skill states the effect in plain English rather than reproducing the amendment mechanics, and it does not attempt to advise on the rest of section 156 or the wider article 22A to 22C regime for co-operating responsible persons in multi-occupied buildings, which is real, in force, and outside a small operator's log book. The skill flags the shared-systems problem in step 1 and leaves the co-operation duties to the owner's assessor.

9. GOV.UK, "Fire safety in the workplace" — four pages of the guide

https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities (who's responsible), /fire-risk-assessments, /fire-safety-equipment-drills-and-training, /enforcement-appeals-and-penalties. The evacuation plans page at /fire-safety-and-evacuation-plans was also read. All read 15 September 2026.

This is the state's own owner-facing version of the duty, and it supplied the parts that the Order states abstractly.

Who is responsible, quoted in step 1: "You're responsible for fire safety in business or other non-domestic premises if you're: an employer, the owner, the landlord, an occupier, anyone else with control of the premises." And what counts: "Non-domestic premises are: all workplaces and commercial premises, all premises the public have access to, the common areas of multi-occupied residential buildings." The page states that different rules apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The risk assessment page gives the five steps — "1. Identify the fire hazards. 2. Identify people at risk. 3. Evaluate, remove or reduce the risks. 4. Record your findings, prepare an emergency plan and provide training. 5. Review and update the fire risk assessment regularly." — and the flat statement "You must keep a written record of your fire risk assessment." Notably, and correctly, this page carries no employee-number threshold at all, which independently corroborates the section 156 reading in step 2.

The equipment, drills and training page supplied the list quoted in steps 4 and 9. "You must have a fire detection and warning system." Then: "You must carry out regular checks to make sure that: all fire alarm systems are working; the emergency lighting is working; you record any faults in systems and equipment; all escape routes are clear and the floor is in good condition; all fire escapes can be opened easily; automatic fire doors close correctly; fire exit signs are in the right place." And the drill: "You need to train new staff when they start work and tell all employees about any new fire risks. You should carry out at least one fire drill per year and record the results."

The enforcement page supplied step 9's closing line: "Your local fire and rescue authority visits premises to check the fire risk assessment and fire prevention measures are appropriate."

Where the skill departs, and it matters: GOV.UK says "regular checks" and gives no frequency for any of them except the annual drill. It is the single most-read fire safety page for UK business owners and it will not tell you how often to test your alarm. The skill therefore takes the intervals from the HM Government sector guide below and from a fire authority page, and writes the source beside each one. It also treats the annual drill as a "should" rather than a "must", because that is the word GOV.UK uses, and a skill that upgrades its sources' modality is a skill that will eventually invent a duty.

10. HM Government, "Fire safety risk assessment: small and medium places of assembly (accessible)"

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-risk-assessment-small-and-medium-places-of-assembly/fire-safety-risk-assessment-small-and-medium-places-of-assembly-accessible, published 5 June 2006, last updated 28 August 2024 when the accessible version was added, read 15 September 2026. The publication landing page at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-risk-assessment-small-and-medium-places-of-assembly was read the same day for the document list and dates.

This is the backbone of steps 4 to 8, and the only free, official, fetchable source found that states the intervals. It is the HM Government sector guide for "small (accommodating up to 60 people) and medium (accommodating up to 300 people) places of assembly", and its own scope sentence is "This guide is for all employers, managers, occupiers and owners of small and medium places of assembly", listing "public houses; clubs; dance halls/schools; village halls; community centres; churches" among others. It states "This guide applies to England and Wales only".

Its maintenance schedule supplied, verbatim:

Daily — "Remove bolts, padlocks and security devices from fire exits ensure that doors on escape routes swing freely and close fully, and check escape routes to ensure they are clear from obstructions and combustible materials" (step 4).

Weekly — "Test fire detection and warning systems and manually-operated warning devices weekly following the manufacturer's or installer's instructions" (step 5).

Monthly — "Test all emergency lighting systems and safety torches to make sure they have enough charge and illumination according to the manufacturer's or supplier's instructions" (step 6).

Six-monthly — "A competent person should test and maintain the fire-detection and warning system" (step 7).

Annually — "The emergency lighting and all firefighting equipment, fire alarms and other installed systems should be tested and maintained by a competent person" (step 8).

Records — "You will find it useful to keep a log book of all maintenance and testing" (step 9). And on false alarms, quoted in step 5: "False alarms from electrical fire warning systems are a major problem and result in many unwanted calls to the fire and rescue service each year."

It also gives the guide's own summary of who carries the duty: "Responsibility for complying with the Order rests with the 'responsible person'. In a workplace, this is the employer and any other person who may have control of any part of the premises, e.g. the occupier or owner."

**Where the skill departs, and this is the most important departure in the pack.** This guide still contains the pre-2023 recording threshold: "If you or your organisation employ five or more people, your premises are licensed, or an alterations notice requiring you to do so is in force, you must record the significant findings of your fire risk assessment and the actions you have taken." That is no longer the law. Section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 removed the condition and the word "significant" with effect from 1 October 2023, and article 9(6) as it now stands on legislation.gov.uk says so. The guide is a 2006 document whose 2024 update added an accessible format, not a legal refresh. **The skill follows the amended Order and explicitly warns the owner that the guidance contradicts it.** We are citing a government guide and telling the reader one of its sentences is wrong; that is uncomfortable, and it is correct, and the evidence is the enacted text.

Second departure: the guide's intervals are written as "should", drawn from the British Standards regime, and the guide is issued as guidance rather than as law. The skill therefore presents every interval as sourced good practice with the source named, never as a statutory requirement.

Third: the guide repeatedly points at "Appendix A.1", its example fire safety maintenance checklist. That appendix was not present in the HTML we could retrieve, so nothing is cited from it, and the skill's schedule is built from the maintenance paragraphs in the body instead. See the section below.

11. HM Government, "Fire safety risk assessment: sleeping accommodation (accessible)"

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-risk-assessment-sleeping-accommodation/fire-safety-risk-assessment-sleeping-accommodation-accessible, published 5 June 2006, last updated 12 September 2023, read 15 September 2026. Landing page read the same day.

Included because the pack is for hospitality and a large part of hospitality has beds in it. Its scope sentence is "This guide is for all employers, managers and owners of premises providing sleeping accommodation", and the landing page lists bed and breakfasts, guest houses, holiday chalets, holiday flat complexes, and camping, caravan and holiday parks.

It repeats the same weekly, monthly and annual lines as the places of assembly guide, and extends the six-monthly one, which is why step 7 says what it says: "A competent person should test and maintain the fire-detection and warning system and emergency lighting". The log book sentence is identical: "You will find it useful to keep a log book of all maintenance and testing."

Where the skill departs: we looked specifically for guidance on the extra problems of premises where people sleep — night staff, guests who do not know the building, when to run a test that wakes a floor of rooms — and found none in the text we could retrieve. The skill therefore raises the timing-of-the-weekly-test problem in step 5 as practical advice drawn from the false alarm sentence in the places of assembly guide, and does not attribute any sleeping-accommodation-specific practice to this source. A hotel or guest house should be using this guide in full, not the two lines quoted here.

12. Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, "Active and passive fire protection"

https://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/fire-protection/business-owner-landlord-or-employee/active-and-passive-fire-protection/, read 15 September 2026.

A fire authority page, fetchable, naming the standards the intervals come from. It states: "In commercial premises and non-domestic undertakings, automatic fire alarm systems must be installed and conform to the requirements of British Standard 5839-1", and "There are several different extinguishers for different types of fire and risk, as given in British Standard 5306." On emergency lighting it gives an interval and its annual partner, quoted in step 6: "As a minimum, emergency lighting systems should be tested monthly and subject to an annual service/test, for the duration specified in the relevant British Standard."

It is cited because it is a second, independent, official corroboration of the monthly emergency lighting interval and because it names the two standards, which lets the skill be precise about what it has not read.

Where the skill departs: this page does not give a testing interval for fire alarms and does not give any interval for extinguishers, and the skill does not pretend it does. Only the emergency lighting sentence is used for an interval. It is a single fire and rescue authority's guidance, not national guidance, and the skill treats it as corroboration rather than as a source of new numbers.

13. Legislation.gov.uk — the three regimes, and the 2022 Regulations

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/547/regulation/3/made (Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022), https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/5/section/53 (Fire (Scotland) Act 2005), https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/1254/article/25/made (Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006). Scottish Government policy page https://www.gov.scot/policies/fire-and-rescue/non-domestic-fire-safety/. All read 15 September 2026.

The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 were checked because they are constantly mentioned in commercial fire safety marketing aimed at businesses. Regulation 3 defines the premises the core duties attach to: a high-rise residential building is "a building containing two or more sets of domestic premises that—(a) is at least 18 metres above ground level; or (b) has at least seven storeys". A restaurant, bar or pub is not that. The skill therefore carries an explicit rule telling the writer not to present those regulations as a hospitality duty, which is the opposite of what a lot of the material an owner will be sold does.

For the divergence rule: the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005, section 53(1), reads "Each employer shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of the employer's employees in respect of harm caused by fire in the workplace", and the Northern Ireland Order's article 25 sets the parallel duty in near-identical words. The Scottish Government page states that "Fire safety duties for the majority of non-domestic premises in Scotland are set out in the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006."

Where the skill departs: it names the three regimes and stops. It does not attempt to write a Scottish or Northern Irish version of the log, because the guidance, the article numbers and the enforcing body all differ, and a log labelled for the wrong nation is worse than an unlabelled one. The skill's instruction is to put the nation on the front page and send a Scottish or Northern Irish operator to their own guidance.

14. BSI — the two standards the intervals actually come from

BS 5839-1:2013, "Fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings - Code of practice for design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of systems in non-domestic premises", published 31 March 2013, https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/fire-detection-and-fire-alarm-systems-for-buildings-code-of-practice-for-design-installation-commissioning-and-maintenance-of-systems-in-non-domestic-premises, read 15 September 2026.

BS 5306-3:2017, "Fire extinguishing installations and equipment on premises. Commissioning and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers. Code of practice", published 31 October 2017, https://landingpage.bsigroup.com/LandingPage/Standard?UPI=000000000030324855, read 15 September 2026.

Both pages were fetched. Both confirm what they are, when they were published, and that the full text is available only through BSI Knowledge or British Standards Online, which are paid platforms. Neither page displayed a price. Nothing from the body of either standard is quoted, paraphrased or relied on anywhere in this skill.

This is why the skill's fourth rule is written the way it is. The weekly alarm test, the rotation of call points, the monthly and annual extinguisher regime, the difference between a basic service and an extended service — these are the things every fire safety supplier's blog will tell an owner, sourced to standards that neither the owner nor this skill has read. The skill gives the intervals it could source to a fetchable official page, says plainly that the standards themselves could not be read, and for the extinguisher service interval tells the owner to take the number from their own contract and risk assessment rather than from a recalled figure.

Could not be loaded

  • **Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, business fire safety**, https://www.nifrs.org/home/staying-safe/business-fire-safety/, returned **HTTP 403 Forbidden** on 15 September 2026. Nothing from NIFRS is quoted; the Northern Ireland position in the skill's rules rests on the enacted text of the 2006 Order instead.
  • **mygov.scot, fire safety in non-domestic premises**, https://www.mygov.scot/fire-safety-non-domestic, returned **HTTP 404 Not Found** on 15 September 2026. The Scottish position rests on gov.scot's policy page and the 2005 Act instead.
  • **The PDF of "Fire safety risk assessment: small and medium places of assembly"**, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/973794/9294_Small_Mediumt_v2.pdf (4.99 MB, 148 pages), downloaded successfully but its text could not be extracted — the content is compressed and image-encoded rather than machine-readable text. Every quotation from this guide therefore comes from the accessible HTML version on GOV.UK, which loaded cleanly.
  • **Appendix A.1 of that guide, the "example fire safety maintenance checklist"**. The body of the accessible HTML refers to it repeatedly — "Appendix A.1 provides a sample fire safety maintenance checklist you can use" — but the appendix itself was not present in the retrieved page. This is a real gap: it is the single most directly useful thing in the guide for this skill, and nothing is cited from it. The schedule in steps 4 to 8 is built only from the maintenance paragraphs in the guide's body, which is why it is shorter than a full checklist and why the skill tells the owner to add their own premises-specific items.
  • **Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service fire safety log book (v4, 2020)**, https://www.ddfire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2020-09/log_book_v4%202020(1)_0.pdf1_.pdf, downloaded (600 KB) but not machine-readable. It would have been a useful model for the log's layout. Nothing from it is used.
  • **Both British Standards' full texts**, as set out in section 14 — paywalled, and not read.

Best public prompt we found for this job

There is no credible public prompt, skill or template repository for building a UK fire safety log book, and saying so is more useful than promoting a weak one.

Two stars-sorted searches of the GitHub API were run live on 15 September 2026 and their star counts read directly off the API response, not from any snippet:

  • https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=fire+safety+compliance&sort=stars&order=desc — 82 total results. Top of the list: **acse-dc421/brick-fire-compliance**, **3 stars**, no licence declared, last pushed 7 December 2025, described as "An extension ontology to Brick, focusing on operational fire-safety compliance". Below it, everything was at 2 stars or fewer, and most of it was computer-vision smoke and PPE detection rather than paperwork.
  • https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=fire+risk+assessment&sort=stars&order=desc — 150 total results, and none of them are about this job. The highest-starred, **whchien/deep-floor-plan-recognition** at **81 stars**, is a computer vision model for floor plans; the rest are wildfire and forest fire danger indices (**steidani/FireDanger**, **37 stars**; **aamks/aamks**, **22 stars**, a probabilistic fire risk assessment framework for fire engineering). "Fire risk assessment" on GitHub overwhelmingly means wildfire prediction, not the UK building duty.

The nearest thing in purpose we found was **Sivamah/fireguard-ai**, **1 star**, no licence declared, last pushed 2 July 2026, whose description as returned by the API begins "A modern, AI-driven fire safety intelligence platform for tracking building compliance, extinguishers, and aud…" — the description was truncated in the search payload and could not be re-read in full, because the GitHub API began returning **"API rate limit exceeded"** on the unauthenticated 60-per-hour limit before that repository could be fetched individually. So: its star count, licence status and push date were read live from the search response; its full description and README were not read, and nothing is claimed about them.

Two further searches we intended to run — for "fire safety" generally and for fire-safety-logbook projects — were refused by the rate limiter and were **not** run. Their results are unknown, and we are not inferring them from the two that did return.

The one idea worth taking from what we did see is negative and it shaped the skill: every credible-looking project in this space is a detector or a dashboard — something that watches, scores or predicts. Not one of them is the boring artefact an inspector actually asks for, which is a dated page with a person's name against a check and an honest record of what failed. That gap is the reason this skill produces a document rather than a system, and it is why the skill's checks are about provenance and completeness rather than about risk scoring.

What we did not copy, and why. Nothing was copied. None of the repositories above declares a licence, so their content could not be reused in any case. None is UK-specific, and every interval in a UK fire log has to trace to UK guidance or to a named standard. And most importantly, an AI platform that "tracks compliance" is offering the one thing this skill refuses to offer: a verdict. Whether the fire precautions in a particular building are suitable is a judgement for the owner's fire risk assessor and, ultimately, for the fire and rescue authority. This skill builds the evidence they will read. It does not grade it.

Want this running in your business?

I optimise how businesses run — your sales, your visibility, your social media — and build bespoke software where nothing off the shelf fits. The first conversation is free. Work starts from £150 a day.