Fire Safety AMC in Bangladesh: Inspections and Maintenance

Getting your fire safety plan approved is one step. Keeping the installed equipment working is an ongoing responsibility. Your factory or building team needs to know when the systems will be checked, who will fix faults and where the inspection records will be kept.

A fire safety Annual Maintenance Contract, or AMC, puts those responsibilities in writing. Before signing one, check both the conditions in your FSCD approval and the work included in the service provider's price.

Does FSCD require an Annual Maintenance Contract?

An AMC can be an explicit condition of an FSCD approval. For example, the NOC issued to Max Five Ltd. on 30 September 2026 calls for an Annual Maintenance Contract to keep its fire safety and electrical safety equipment operational. The same condition also calls for regular training arrangements.

Check the wording in your own approval. If it requires an AMC, the agreement needs to cover the equipment and responsibilities identified there. A contract covering only fire alarms, for example, would leave other systems outside its scope.

How often should the equipment be checked?

The Fire Prevention and Extinction Rules, 2014, give specific maintenance requirements in Schedule 20, which contains the conditions for an Occupancy Certificate:

The fire-equipment list includes extinguishers, detectors, alarm bells, manual call points, strobes, risers, sprinklers, hose reels, hydrants, panels and pumps. It also includes smoke-control equipment, fire lifts, emergency lights, exit signs and other listed equipment.

For a building subject to these conditions, one fire-system inspection a year does not meet the three-monthly requirement. “Annual” describes the contract period. The agreement still needs a schedule of visits and checks during that year.

These Occupancy Certificate conditions and the conditions in an individual NOC are separate references. Use the requirements that apply to your facility when agreeing the inspection schedule. The three-monthly provision alone is not a complete testing schedule for every component.

What should your fire safety AMC cover?

The following is a practical checklist for agreeing the service scope. Start with your approved fire safety plan and a list of the equipment installed at the site.

List the systems covered. Depending on your facility, these may include:

• Fire detection and alarm systems, including detectors, manual call points, panels, batteries, sounders and strobes.
• Fire pumps, hydrants, hose reels, hose cabinets and related valves.
• Sprinkler, water-spray, deluge or pre-action systems.
• Gas suppression cylinders, nozzles, control panels and associated devices.
• Portable extinguishers and emergency lighting.

List electrical safety work separately if it is included. Do the same for other systems, such as public-address equipment or lightning protection, so both parties understand the scope.

State the visits and checks included. Agree the inspection dates with your facility team and describe the functional tests to be carried out. For example, smoke and heat detector checks should specify suitable detector-testing equipment. A broad description such as “check fire system” leaves too much unclear.

Agree how faults will be handled. Identify who receives the findings and who can arrange corrective work. Include prompt notification when equipment is found not working, so the facility team can act on it.

Include checks after repairs. Agree who will return to check the repaired equipment, how the result will be recorded and whether that visit is included in the price.

Are maintenance and repair costs included?

That depends on the agreement. An annual inspection contract may cover testing, identifying faults and reporting, while the repair work is quoted separately. An AMC may include maintenance, but you still need to establish what work and materials the price covers.

Before accepting a quotation, confirm:

• Which inspection, testing and maintenance work is included.
• How repair costs will be agreed when an issue is found.
• Whether spare parts, extinguisher refilling and replacement equipment are included or charged separately.
• Whether follow-up testing after repairs is included.

This matters because an inspection report can identify a problem without paying for its repair. The contract should make clear who will arrange the work and how it will be charged.

What records should you keep?

For buildings subject to Schedule 20, condition 6 requires a register of regular fire-equipment checks. Condition 7 separately requires records of annual electrical testing and maintenance. Condition 5 requires the list and locations of installed firefighting equipment to be kept at the fire command station.

For day-to-day use, ask for an inspection report that shows:

• The equipment checked and the findings.
• Faults that need attention.
• Corrective work completed and work still outstanding.
• The results of checks carried out after repairs.

These report contents are a practical recommendation for managing the work. Keep the reports with your maintenance records and update the register as checks are completed. This helps your team follow a fault through from its discovery to its repair and follow-up check.

How Triangle Engineers Ltd. can help

Triangle Engineers Ltd. provides fire safety inspection, testing and maintenance. Maintenance costs depend on the type of issue and the work needed to address it.

Share your approved fire safety plan, equipment list and any maintenance conditions in your FSCD approval with our team. We can discuss the inspection and maintenance scope, visit schedule and charging arrangements for your facility.

Contact Triangle's fire safety inspection and audit team.

Related reading: Fire safety plan drawing checklist for FSCD NOC and Max Five's fire safety design and approval project.

Reference note: The regulatory statements above refer to Schedule 20, conditions 5–7, of the Fire Prevention and Extinction Rules, 2014, and maintenance condition (গ) of Max Five Ltd.'s NOC. The practical contract checklist also draws on a client-supplied annual inspection specification; it is advice on agreeing a service scope, rather than a prescribed FSCD contract format.