Fire Alarm Logbook and Service Records: UK Guide
Fire alarm logbook guide for the UK: weekly tests, events, faults, service records and emergency lighting logs. Get the free A4 service record template.
A fire alarm logbook is the record that shows a building's fire alarm is maintained. This guide, written for UK fire and security installers and for the responsible person on site, explains what a logbook usually contains: basic system details, weekly call point tests, fire alarm events and false alarms with their causes, faults, disablements, servicing visits and alterations.
It sets out what a servicing engineer's visit record should capture, from the devices tested and battery readings to faults found, actions taken, next service due and signatures. It explains the difference between a service record and the formal certificates whose model forms sit in BS 5839-1, and advises using the official forms or your certification body's forms where a certificate is required.
It covers emergency lighting test logs with monthly function tests and annual tests by a competent person, paper versus digital logbooks, and why records should be kept for the life of the system. It links the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and gov.uk guidance, offers a free A4 fire alarm service record tool with no account, and ends with a clear disclaimer that this is record keeping guidance, not legal or fire safety advice..