In New Jersey, every non-residential occupancy is either a registered Life Hazard Use inspected by the state's schedule or a locally registered use inspected under municipal ordinance. Either way, a bureau has your address and a date.
Restaurants & commercial kitchens
Life Hazard Use Type A and C. Hood suppression semiannual, extinguishers including Class K, emergency lighting, CO2 beverage cylinders, and the first-aid cabinet, all on one calendar.
Obligations: LHU registration · NFPA 96 hood · NFPA 10 · NFPA 101 · OSHA first aid
Offices, retail & warehouses
Registered annually by local ordinance, or Type B if you weld, spray, or store in bulk. Extinguisher counts, exit lighting, fire doors, and the annual file the fire official asks for.
Obligations: municipal registration or LHU B · NFPA 10 · NFPA 101 · NFPA 80 · OSHA 1910.157
Apartment buildings & property managers
Multi-building portfolios on one schedule, one report per building, one summary for the manager. We also track the lead-safe inspection clock on pre-1978 rental units and the certificate-of-occupancy items the municipality checks at turnover.
Obligations: non-LHU registration · NFPA 10 · NFPA 101 · NFPA 72 · lead-safe certification
Schools, day care & houses of worship
Type A annual registrations, usually run by a volunteer or an administrator with no compliance help. We become the help: extinguishers, emergency lighting, drill records, and the file the inspector reads.
Obligations: LHU A · NFPA 10 · NFPA 101 · drill and training records
Auto service, fuel & light industrial
Type A and B uses with flammable storage and hot work. Extinguisher classes matched to the hazard, eyewash stations logged, and the permits your municipality requires for hot work on file before the work starts.
Obligations: LHU A/B · NFPA 10 · hot-work permits · OSHA eyewash
Dental, veterinary & outpatient
Extinguishers and emergency lighting on the annual schedule, plus the N2O and O2 cylinder documentation and the AED your sedation permit requires.
Obligations: registration · NFPA 10 · NFPA 99 gas storage · sedation-permit AED