What Is The Fire and Building Safety Checklist

Created By Fire Marshal

The state fire marshal provides a printable checklist for crowd managers to complete as they physically walk through the venue prior to open.

Completed Each Day

Crowd managers must complete and sign the checklist, and correct any defects observed, before opening the venue to the public.

Keep Copy For One Year

Each completed and signed checklist is to be kept on-site for one-year for inspection by state or local fire officials.

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Local fire officials create and update the safety checklist

Created by Fire Authorities

Clear pathways for egress are vital to a plan of ensuring safety in case of fire or other emergency. Crowd managers must ensure that pathways used to exit the establishment are free from obstructions, including people.

Crowd managers must inspect paths and doorways prior to opening the business to the public, and correct any violations prior to opening for business.

Crowd managers must regularly direct persons to maintain clear paths of egress within the establishment during business hours. This may require setting up stantions or ropes, having multiple staff members, or any number of techniques to ensure that visitors are not obstructing exit pathways.

CROWD MANAGERS MUST PHYSICALLY INSPECT BUILDING SAFETY

Complete checklist everyday

Overcrowding is the number one contributing factor with regard to nightclub fire and injury incidents. It is required of crowd managers to prevent overcrowding by regularly keeping track of the total occupancy of the venue, and ensuring that there are no more persons inside than is allowed by the building's licensed occupancy load.

Counting entrants and exits is a good start, but crowd managers must also perform on the floor counts and inspections by physically walking the venue. In addition to counting total persons in the venue as a whole, venues with multiple floors or assembly areas are also subject to capacity restrictions inside of those areas according to their licensed occupancy load.

Physically walk through the venue

Count entries and exits to ensure the building is under capacity

Visually inspect all items on the checklist

Regularly count zones to ensure the zone is under licensed capacity

Ensure compliance with the checklist

Regularly ensure persons are not obstructing egress paths or doors

Indicate compliance on the checklist

Regularly ensure persons are not obstructing egress paths or doors

Correct all deficiencies prior to opening

Regularly ensure persons are not obstructing egress paths or doors

Sign and complete the checklist

Regularly ensure persons are not obstructing egress paths or doors

A signed copy of each checklist must be kept on-site for a year

Sign, and keep a copy

Venues open to the public that have a capacity of 100 or more persons are required to comply with crowd manager guidelines. A crowd manager is required to be on staff and on the floor during all hours of business operations. For this reason, the owner or operator is always required to complete crowd manager certification and to designate another certified crowd manager whenever they are not on site and for every 250 patrons.

Complete Daily Fire and Building Safety Checklist

Each checklist must be kept on the premises for one year

Be prepared to deploy the fire alarm

Pull the fire alarm if necessary and direct occupants to exits

Make exit and egress announcements regularly

Make audible announcements of exit ways before any performance

Physically walk through venue regularly

Must regularly verify that checklist items are in compliance

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