Fire Door Inspection Form

Right now, a fire door inspection sometimes gets treated as a quick visual pass, does the door close, is the label still there, when NFPA 80 actually specifies a defined set of conditions an assembly has to meet, gaps within tolerance, a self-closing device that works from any position, positive latching, no field modifications that weren't part of the original tested assembly. A scribbled note that says "door OK" doesn't hold up if a jurisdiction or insurer asks what was actually checked.

Typeform's fire door inspection form walks through the standard NFPA 80 points, labels intact and legible, no unauthorized holes or breaks, glazing and gasketing undamaged, clearances within spec, self-closing and positive latching function, no auxiliary hardware blocking closure, with a pass or fail response and photo upload for each. Conditional logic surfaces a detail and corrective-action field automatically whenever something fails, instead of leaving it to the inspector to remember what to write down, and can route flagged doors to whoever's responsible for scheduling the repair.

One thing worth building around correctly. NFPA 80 requires fire door assemblies to be inspected at least annually, and inspection records need to be retained, three years is the general baseline, though your local jurisdiction may require longer, signed by the inspector and available for review by the authority having jurisdiction. NFPA 80 doesn't mandate a specific certification for who can perform the inspection, but it does require someone with real knowledge, training, and experience with fire door assemblies, not just whoever's doing the general building walkthrough that week. And a failed item isn't a note for next time, deficiencies need to be corrected without delay, some jurisdictions set a specific repair window, so this form works best when a failed inspection actually triggers a tracked follow-up rather than just a record that a problem existed.