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Fire Safety
Fire safety reporting begins with Hood Cleaning at launch. Additional sub-sections publish as each reaches depth — at least five primary-source-verified articles each.
Articles
Five Fire Systems, Five Records: A Fire Prevention Week Audit
A Fire Prevention Week audit for commercial kitchens — the five fire systems, the five service records behind them, and why the documentation is what an insurance adjuster reviews after a loss.
Published October 8, 2026
How Often Must a Commercial Kitchen Exhaust System Be Cleaned? What NFPA 96 Requires
NFPA 96 sets an inspection schedule and, separately, a cleaning trigger — and being current on one does not make a kitchen compliant on the other.
Published October 5, 2026
Fire Prevention Week: The Grease Above Your Line Is a Fuel Load
Fire Prevention Week is the week to look up at the system above your cooking line. What the grease is, what NFPA 96 measures, and the record that decides a Texas claim.
Published September 24, 2026
What the Adjuster’s Checklist Actually Tests
When a kitchen fire triggers a property claim, the adjuster’s questions are administrative, not forensic — and they are answered by records, not recollection.
Published September 9, 2026
Which NFPA 96 Governs Your Kitchen? Adoption, Edition, and Local Amendment
How NFPA 96 becomes an enforceable local requirement in California: the state adoption cycle, the referenced-standards mechanism, and the procedure for local amendment.
Published August 31, 2026
Health Inspections and Fire Inspections: Two Systems, Not One
Most conversations about commercial kitchen requirements collapse two separate regulatory systems into one. It is a convenient simplification and it produces a specific, recurring blind spot.
Published August 27, 2026
Open study
Which fire safety records could you send today?
Five systems, five separate service records — whether one contractor services them or five do. The study asks which of those five records you could produce without looking anything up.
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