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What does the record of an inspection have to say and how long do you have to keep it?
It has to say what was done, on which element, with what result, when and who signs it. A piece of paper saying «installation inspected, correct» is not a record: it is a receipt. What you show at an inspection or after a claim is the detail element by element, with the anomalies found and what was done about each one.
RIPCI requires those records to be kept for at least five years, available to the inspection services, and requires the owner to keep a log of the operations carried out. In practice it is worth keeping more: the history of a system —which detector gives trouble, when the batteries were changed, which zone was extended— is what lets you stop replacing parts and start correcting the cause.
And if there are anomalies, the record says so even if it is awkward. A record with nothing found at all on a twelve-year-old system is, almost always, a record that has not been earned.
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