Life-Safety Fuel Continuity Workflow
Beginning with life-safety, this workflow identifies the continuity data points that must survive from cradle to grave to protect lives, liability, time and cost—in order to carry the weight of NFPA 110, 99, and 101.
The 10-point protocol protects the people, the sample, the evidence, the record, and the continuity of the entire event.
Enter the continuity workflow
One connected point of entry.
LIFE-SAFETY WORKFLOW ENTRY
NFPA 110 Life-Safety Fuel Sample Kit
Identify the event. Obtain the physical evidence. Continue the workflow.Applicable Life-Safety Context
NFPA 110 / EPSS
Fuel-quality evidence and corrective-action verification for emergency power readiness.
NFPA 99 / HEALTHCARE
Fuel-system continuity, documentation and readiness supporting critical-care environments.
NFPA 101 / LIFE SAFETY
Emergency-power fuel continuity with preserved records for life-safety system compliance.
Applicable life-safety context is determined by the identified facility, asset, and event.
One connected event. Ten controlled stages.
Select any stage in the progress rail or continue scrolling to follow the event in sequence.
Workflow stage
IDENTIFY
Identify means knowing which continuity data points have to survive the entire workflow in the trenches.
Before anything moves, establish what must remain connected through the event:
People · Life-Safety Environment · Facility · Asset · Fuel Source · Workflow · Protocols · Timing · Responsibility · Operating Condition · Work Order / References · Evidence · Record · Next Event
These continuity data points establish the identity of the event and give the remaining protocol something dependable to carry forward.
Protect the people first. Then protect the sample, the evidence, the record, and the continuity built around them.
Workflow stage
SAMPLE
Safe Sample Collection & Shipping
The next step is obtaining a representative physical sample safely and consistently.
The FOI sampling/shipping kit provides the engineered collection and shipping structure, sample tracking, physical identification, and the beginning of traceable custody.
Physical evidence begins the fuel-condition workflow.
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CUSTODY
Sample Information Form / Identity & Receipt
The SIF establishes the data points of reference connected to the physical sample.
- Customer/account
- Facility
- Generator or equipment
- Tank/storage source
- Fuel type
- Operating environment
- Sampler
- Sampling location
- Requested testing
- Invoicing
- Sampling-management information
- Other asset/platform reference information
This is where the physical sample becomes connected to the information needed throughout the fuel-continuity process. The sample arrives with its identifying information. FOI reconciles the physical sample to the submitted information, records receipt, and preserves traceability into the laboratory event.
Preserve the identity and traceability of the physical evidence.
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LABORATORY PERFORMANCE
The appropriate fuel-quality testing is performed using the applicable methods.
This creates evidence describing the condition of the fuel.
Laboratory performance establishes technical evidence.
Workflow stage
REVIEW
The results are reviewed in relation to the fuel source, asset, operating environment, applicable specifications, and life-safety or mission-critical requirements.
Only the evidence determines what happens next.
Workflow stage
CORRECT
If the evidence indicates that intervention is needed, the responsible service party performs the appropriate corrective action.
Examples might include cleaning, polishing, removal, replacement, tank service, source correction, or other appropriate intervention.
Correct the identified fuel condition where action is required.
Workflow stage
VERIFY
Corrective action alone does not establish that the desired fuel condition was achieved.
A subsequent sample or verification event provides the evidence needed to establish the post-intervention condition.
Corrective action alone does not establish the resulting fuel condition.
Workflow stage
PRESERVE
The relevant evidence, reports, custody information, status, and references are preserved.
Where another management platform is involved, the appropriate evidence/status may be returned to that system while it remains the customer's system of record.
Preserve the evidence, event identity, status, and history.
Workflow stage
TREND
The completed event becomes part of the preserved history.
Condition can then be compared over time and recurring issues identified.
Compare preserved condition from one event to the next.
Workflow stage
NEXT EVENT
The preserved history carries forward so the next appropriate fuel-condition event can be established with knowledge instead of reconstruction.
Establish the next appropriate fuel-condition event.
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System boundary
Your management platform remains the system of record.
Your existing facility, generator, PM, engineering, and asset-management platform remains the system of record. FOI governs only the fuel-quality continuity event—carrying the event from asset identification through sampling, custody, laboratory performance, corrective action, verification, preservation, and trend history, then returning the evidence to the management environment.
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If you have questions, email us or call our team for help with the continuity process.