Latest 2024 Fire Prevention and Fighting Inspection Minutes Template

Latest Fire Safety Inspection Report Template 2024?

According to Form PC-10 issued together with Decree 50/2024/ND-CP, there is a fire safety inspection report template.

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Who conducts fire safety inspections?

Clause 1, Article 16 of Decree 136/2020/ND-CP specifies the entities subject to fire safety inspections, including:

- Establishments subject to fire safety management;- Residential areas, households, forests, motor vehicles, technical infrastructures related to urban fire prevention, economic zones, industrial parks, industrial clusters, export processing zones, and high-tech zones;- Construction works during the construction process as listed in Appendix 5 issued together with this Decree, excluding defense establishments serving military purposes;- Fire safety service business establishments.

What does a fire safety inspection include?

Clause 2, Article 16 of Decree 136/2020/ND-CP, amended and supplemented by Clause 8, Article 1 of Decree 50/2024/ND-CP, specifies the contents of fire safety inspections, including:

- Safety conditions for fire prevention and fighting for establishments, residential areas, households, and motor vehicles as regulated in Articles 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Decree 136/2020/ND-CP;- Safety conditions for forest fire prevention and fighting as stipulated in Decree 156/2018/ND-CP;- Safety conditions during construction: fire safety regulations, escape guidance signs, assignment of fire safety responsibilities to investors and construction units within their authority; use of electrical systems, fire generation systems, heat sources, and initial firefighting equipment suitable for the nature and characteristics of the construction;- Implementation of fire safety responsibilities by heads of agencies, organizations, investors, construction contractors, vehicle owners, household heads, and forest owners as stipulated;- Conditions of fire safety service business establishments as prescribed in Article 41 of Decree 136/2020/ND-CP; implementation of fire safety service business activities as licensed by competent police authorities;- Technical infrastructures related to urban fire prevention, economic zones, industrial parks, industrial clusters, export processing zones, and high-tech zones as specified in Articles 10 and 31 of Decree 136/2020/ND-CP.

What behaviors are prohibited in fire safety activities?

Article 13 of the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting 2001, amended by Clause 8, Article 1 of the amended Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting 2013, specifies prohibited behaviors in fire safety activities, including:

- Intentionally causing fire and explosion that endangers human life and health; damages the property of the State, agencies, organizations, individuals; negatively impacts the environment, security, and social order and safety.- Obstructing fire prevention and firefighting activities; resisting persons performing fire safety duties.- Abusing fire prevention and firefighting to harm human life and health; infringing upon the property of the State, agencies, organizations, and individuals.- Making false fire alarms.- Failing to report a fire when able to; delaying fire reports.- Producing, storing, transporting, using, and illegally trading in flammable and explosive substances.- Illegally bringing flammable and explosive items into crowded places.- Constructing fire-hazardous works, high-rise buildings, commercial centers without approved fire safety designs; commissioning and using fire-hazardous works, high-rise buildings, commercial centers without adequate fire safety conditions.- Appropriating, destroying, damaging, altering, relocating, obscuring fire prevention and firefighting equipment, signs, and escape routes.- Other violations of legal regulations on fire prevention and firefighting.