Fire doors
Annual fire door assembly inspections: what gets recorded, how deficiencies are tracked, and the tools and software that help.
Independent · Source-checked · By Chris Gaitanis, hospital facilities & life safety manager
Maintenance & compliance software for facility teams that get surveyed.
Independent comparisons of CMMS, inspection, and life safety documentation tools for smaller regulated facilities — clinics, surgery centers, senior living, schools, and property managers.
Life Safety inspections
Fire & smoke dampers
Damper inspection and testing documentation: locating access panels, recording results, and keeping the history audit-ready.
Fire extinguishers
Extinguisher inspection rounds, tags, and digital logs.
Exit signs & emergency lighting
Exit sign and emergency lighting test records, and the tools that make the walk-through faster.
Inspection logs
Paper binders, spreadsheets, form apps, or a CMMS: how to keep life safety inspection records that hold up to a survey.
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Comparison
CMMS software for healthcare and regulated facilities: what survey-ready records need
What CMS and Joint Commission documentation asks of your maintenance records, and how Limble, FreeMaint, ChecklistGuro and GoFormz line up for clinics, ASCs and senior living.
In the directory
Inspection checklists & mobile forms
ChecklistGuro
Checklist and workflow platform the vendor calls a "Work OS", with audit/inspection and maintenance management modules.
Best for: Teams digitizing recurring inspection checklists before (or instead of) buying a full CMMS (editorial opinion)
Pricing: Free $0 (up to 20 users, 100 checklists/tasks per month); Pro $23/user/mo billed annually or $29 billed monthly; Enterprise custom quote (as published 2026-10-22).
CMMS / work orders
FreeMaint
CMMS with a free Core tier and flat per-company paid tiers (not per user), per the vendor.
Best for: Small facility teams that want to start on a free CMMS tier and pay a flat price as they grow (editorial opinion)
Pricing: Core $0 (free, unlimited users); Starter $29/mo, Business $99/mo, Enterprise $299/mo, flat per company (as published 2026-10-22).
Mobile forms platform
GoFormz
Mobile forms and field data-capture platform whose digital forms can mirror existing paper forms, per the vendor.
Best for: Teams that want to keep the exact layout of their existing paper inspection forms on tablets (editorial opinion)
Pricing: Starter $499/month billed monthly or $4,999/year (up to 10 users, up to 30 templates); Enterprise custom quote (as published 2026-10-22).
Fire protection contractor software
Inspect Point
Fire protection contractor software
KomplyOS
Fire door & damper inspection
Krinkle Fire Door
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