• Meet with Customer Representative
• Customer Representative assigns staff member as escort [when possible] to assure prompt access to persons/keys/codes/rooms/all relevant areas of the facility
  
• Obtain Life Safety Plan (or floor plans), insuring that all fire and smoke walls are delineated.
• The Life Safety Prints depict the compartmentation design and fire and smoke wall locations and ratings.
• Review the prints with the POC, for any special details or requirements for the survey
  
• Establish securable work area for team operations
• Bring in all tools, HEPA vacs, ladders, and other equipment as necessary
  
• Establish schedule and accessibility to corridors, rooms, or any sensitive areas and present to Customer Representative or liaison for approval and communication to relevant hospital staff
• Determine the scope of the Survey Initial, 100% Survey – or Partial Survey
• Begin Survey
• Proceed to the top floor and begin survey based on the Life Safety Codes.
• Using the Safe Check Electronic Survey Form, begin documenting and collecting data to include those penetrations that “offer no protection”
• Data includes:
• Wall Type, Rating and Material of Construction
• Type of through penetration
• Joint Treatments, Cable Trays, Curtain Walls, Electrical Outlet Boxes, Wall Penetrations of any kind (Utilities, HVAC, Chases, etc.)
• Type of penetrant material
• Any special conditions
• Proper UL System to be assigned.
  
• Caulk and Walk Survey
• All penetrations will be documented as described in the Fire Stop Protocol
• A pre-determined maximum annular space size (typically < 2” ) shall be itemized as described in the Fire Stop Protocol, and will be addressed using an approved UL System material.

DRI Information
The UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program requires a Company to employ at least one Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) with knowledge focused on the selection and installation of Firestop systems as demonstrated by the successful completion of an exam and meets additional program requirements.

UL Certification Information
Safe√ Check continues to show their commitment to Quality and Customers by becoming a UL Qualified Firestop Contractor. Below are two requirements of the UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program that Safe Check now has:

1. Employs at least one Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) with knowledge focused on selection and installation of Firestop systems as demonstrated by successful completion of an exam and meets additional program requirements.
2. Established and effectively implemented and maintained a Management System focused on selection and installation of Firestop systems as demonstrated by audit at contractor's facility and job site.