The Telure Standard for a building core

Exit door, egress route and stairway walk

Walk every exit and the route to it, and open each exit door from the inside the way somebody leaving in a hurry would. Record what it actually took to get it open and flag anything that needed a key, a tool, or a second latch to work out in the dark; where your jurisdiction or your insurer sets what that hardware has to do, that governs and the flag is judged against it. Then the route itself, which is what actually changes week to week: nothing propped, chained, wedged or stacked at a door, corridors and stair landings clear of storage and deliveries, stair treads, nosings and handrails sound, and the discharge outside clear of vehicles, bins and snow. This is weekly and not monthly because an exit is blocked by ordinary use rather than by wear: a pallet gets left, a table gets moved, a mat gets rolled up against a door, and none of it survives a month unnoticed but all of it survives a week. Where your jurisdiction or your insurer sets the interval, that governs. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Portable fire extinguisher check: unit by unit

Unit by unit against the registry, not a count of what you happened to see. At each one: present and in its bracket or cabinet at the location it is registered to, visible and unobstructed from the corridor, the gauge needle in the operable band, the pull pin seated and the tamper seal unbroken, the hose and nozzle clear and uncracked, the shell free of dents, corrosion and paint over the label, the instruction label legible and facing out, and the unit not obviously light in the hand. Record the finding against that specific unit and read its hydrostatic and service dates back against the registry while you are there. Monthly because every one of those is a state that changes on the scale of weeks: a seal walks off, a gauge drifts down, a unit gets carried to a workshop and never comes back, and a stack of chairs appears in front of a cabinet. Anything failed comes off the wall, gets replaced from the spares, and opens a corrective item. Where your jurisdiction or your insurer sets the interval, that governs. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

AED readiness check: pads, battery and cabinet access

Every AED in the building and anything the association keeps in a vehicle: the status indicator showing ready rather than any error or blank, the case undamaged and the unit sitting where it is registered, the cabinet unlocked or openable without a key and unobstructed by anything that has been stacked in front of it, and the spare pads, shears and razor in the pouch. Then read the printed expiry date off the pad pouch and the install-by or expiry date off the battery and record both, so the dates live on this record rather than on a sticker somebody has to remember to look at, and the next review opens with them already in front of it. Monthly because a pad pouch reaches its date silently and a cabinet gets blocked by a table within days. Replacement schedules and the self-test the unit runs on its own come from the manufacturer's documentation. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Emergency light and exit sign function test

Unit by unit, press the test button or drop the local supply and hold it long enough to watch what happens: both lamp heads striking and staying lit, the head aimed where it was aimed, the sign face lit and readable from the direction of travel, and no unit dropping out early or flickering as it warms. Then walk the route with the units on and answer the question the individual test cannot: is the path from here to the exit actually lit, or is there a dark stretch at a turn, on a landing, or where a wall got built since the units went in. A short function test at a monthly interval is what tells you a lamp or a transfer circuit has failed; a battery that has lost its capacity shows up only on the full-duration test below. Where your jurisdiction or your insurer sets the interval or the duration, that governs. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Fire alarm panel and device walk

Start at the panel and read it: normal, or a trouble, supervisory or alarm condition, and if there is one, what it says word for word and how long it has been there. Note any zone or device that has been isolated or disabled, who isolated it, and whether it is still meant to be. Then walk the building and look at the devices: pull stations unobstructed and their covers intact, smoke and heat detectors clear of paint, tape, plastic, dust and anything hung from them, nothing stacked into the space below a detector, horns and strobes unobstructed with a clear line of sight. Monthly because these fail by housekeeping rather than by wear: a paint crew bags a detector and does not come back for it, a storage rack goes up under one, a poster goes over a pull station. Testing and the intervals for it belong to your alarm service provider and to the code your jurisdiction has adopted; this is the walk in between. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

First aid kit inventory and restock

Open every kit and station in the building, at the front desk, in the program wing, in the kitchen and in any vehicle, and inventory it against its own contents list rather than by eye: quantities of each item present, nothing expired, sterile packaging unopened and undamaged, and the kit itself closed, clean and where it is registered. Restock what is short the same day and record what you replaced, because the pattern of what runs out is itself worth having when somebody asks what injuries this building actually sees. Monthly because a kit is depleted by use and use is invisible: nobody reports taking the last two gauze pads. Which contents list you inventory against is your own choice and your carrier's, and the list you adopt is what you record here. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Chemical storage and safety data sheet check

Every place chemicals are kept, which in most buildings means the custodial closet, the mechanical room, the kitchen and the maintenance shop: containers closed, upright, labeled with what is actually in them, and segregated so nothing incompatible shares a shelf; no decanted product in an unlabeled bottle; secondary containment intact and dry; ventilation running; the spill kit complete; and nothing stored on the floor or above shoulder height. Then the paperwork half, at the place it is actually kept: a safety data sheet present and findable for every product on the shelf, including the ones somebody bought at a hardware store and brought in, and the staff who work in there able to say where the sheets are. Finish by flushing the eyewash and drench shower where there is one and dating the flush. Monthly because the shelf changes constantly and the sheets do not follow the purchase. Confirm the PPE staff are expected to wear is stocked and serviceable. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Electrically locked and delayed egress door release check

For every exit door with an electric lock, a magnetic hold-open, a delayed egress device or a card reader on it: operate the release the way somebody leaving in a hurry would, and watch the door actually release. Then take the power off it and watch it release again, because a door that unlocks on a button and not on a power failure is a door that works only on the days nothing is wrong. Confirm any delay runs the interval it is set to and no longer, that the local alarm sounds, that the sign on the door still matches what the hardware does, and that a magnetic hold-open drops when the alarm is put into test. Monthly because access control gets reprogrammed by people who are thinking about security rather than about egress, and a change made on a Tuesday afternoon is invisible until somebody needs the door. A building with no electrified egress hardware anywhere has nothing to test here and should mark this as not applicable with the reason recorded. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Evacuation and lockdown drill

Run one drill and rotate the scenario each quarter: a full evacuation to the assembly point, a lockdown, a shelter in place, and an evacuation with the primary route blocked so the second one gets used. Record the date and time, the scenario, who ran it, how the notification was started, how long the building took to clear or secure, the count at the assembly point against who was signed in, and every single thing that went wrong, including the ones that are embarrassing: the door nobody could find the key for, the wing that did not hear the horns, the group that walked back in before they were told to. The failures are the reason to run it, so a drill recorded as flawless is a drill recorded badly. Quarterly is the cadence this pack proposes; where your jurisdiction, your school district or your licensing body sets a frequency or a scenario, that governs and you record the drills you actually owe. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Evacuation map, assembly point and emergency contact check

Stand at each posted evacuation map and read it as a stranger would: is it still on the wall, is it legible, does the you-are-here mark match where you are standing, and does the route it shows still exist after whatever walls, doors and rooms have changed since it was printed. Then the assembly point itself: reachable on the route shown, clear of vehicles and deliveries, far enough from the building, and workable in winter. Finish at the emergency contact list wherever it is posted and confirm every name and number on it is still a person who works here and still a number that answers. Twice a year because all three drift with staff turnover and building work rather than with wear, and both of those move on a scale of months. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Emergency light and exit sign duration test

Once a year, put the emergency lighting on battery and leave it there for its full rated duration rather than for the few seconds the monthly test uses, then walk the egress routes at the end of that period and record what is still lit and what is not. This is the only test that finds the failure that matters: a battery that lights the head for thirty seconds and is flat well before anyone has finished getting out. Record the duration you ran, the units that dropped early and how early, and open a corrective item for each one. Run it when the building is empty, tell your alarm monitoring provider first, and where your jurisdiction, your insurer or the unit's manufacturer sets the duration or the interval, that governs. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.

Service tag check: extinguishers, alarm panel and emergency lighting

In the days after each annual service visit, walk the building and look at the tags themselves: on each extinguisher, a tag or collar present, attached, legible and carrying this year's service date and the name or license of whoever performed it; at the alarm panel, the inspection and testing record card filled in and left where it belongs without covering the display or the wiring diagram; on the emergency lighting, whatever record the service provider leaves. This is a physical fixture you look at and answer pass or flag, not a piece of paperwork, and it sits here rather than on a monthly walk because a tag is only ever correct immediately after the visit. Copy what each tag says onto the registered unit as well, so the unit's history survives a tag that fades, gets painted over or leaves with the unit. File the service report against this task and open a corrective item for every deficiency it cites, naming who owns it and when it is due in the item note. Telure records the visit; it does not issue, verify or endorse anybody's license or qualification. Part of the Telure Standard: the manufacturer's manual governs all equipment intervals.