HMO Compliance Checks

• Conducted on

  Date
• Site address
  Address

• Your name

• Signature

  Sign

• Fire Alarm Tested

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Take a video and photo of the fire alarm panel

  Media

Emergency Lights

• Emergency Lighting Tested

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Take a video and photo of emergency lighting

  Media

• Fire door checks (Communal areas)
  
  All fire doors in communal areas of the building must be checked.  Typically, these doors will include:
  
  doors to stairways and stairway lobbies
  cross-corridor doors, which sub-divide corridors
  doors to storage and electrical equipment cupboards
  doors to riser shafts, within which various services run
  
  In checking these doors, you must ensure that the doors are effectively self-closing (or, in the case of cupboard and riser doors, are kept locked shut).  Self-closing doors should fully close into their frames when the doors are opened at any angle and released. 
  
  A simple way to check this is to:
  
  firstly, open the door fully, then let it go
  then open the door to around 15 degrees and let it go
  
  In both cases, the door should fully close into the frame, overcoming the resistance of any latch or friction with the floor.
  
  You should also check that doors, frames and any glazing are undamaged and that any intumescent strips and smoke seals (where provided) are also undamaged. 
  
  Defects in the doors, frames and self-closing devices should be rectified as soon as reasonably practicable.

• Are all communal doors compliant?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Take a video and photo of the doors

  Media

• You must display fire safety instructions in a conspicuous part of the building.  The instructions must be in a comprehensible form that residents can reasonably be expected to understand.
  
  The instructions must cover the following matters:
  
  the evacuation strategy for the building (e.g. stay put or simultaneous evacuation)
  instructions on how to report a fire (e.g. use of 999 or 112, the correct address to give to the fire and rescue service, etc.)
  any other instruction that tells residents what they must do when a fire has occurred

• Is there a fire strategy notice on the communal notice board?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Take a photo of the notice on the communal notice board?

  Media

• Check fire extinguishers are in date and ready to use.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Take Pictures of Fire Extinguishers

  Media