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Permalink Reply by Wade Seely on December 9, 2011 at 10:29am

Ours is a simple spreadsheet format. Every bottle, pack, and mask has its own id number. Every month five or six of each get tested and marked on the spreadsheet with the date so that the next year the same packs get tested in the same month. This allows for all of the packs to be tested on a yearly basis, but you are not doing them all at once. If you are wanting a specific form for testing packs, I would recommend contacting the manufacture.

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Permalink Reply by Marty Hrinko on December 9, 2011 at 12:55pm

Our packs get tested every other week. We also use a simple spreadsheet that was created a couple years ago. Each pack has its own number, every pack from each truck gets tested at the same time. Each member has his/her own mask, which they are required to check, but everyone's mask gets an inspection every year. The spare masks on the trucks get tested at the sae time the packs do.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Vest on December 9, 2011 at 5:41pm

Our packs all get flow tested by a factory technician annually as well as inspected weekly and after each use.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Wright on December 9, 2011 at 7:15pm

Go to VFIS website they have a great form you can use, it's in the resources section. They have a few helpful form also listed.....

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Sleczka on December 9, 2011 at 9:05pm

VFIS Form works perfect thanks alot!

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Permalink Reply by Tom on December 9, 2011 at 9:42pm

Our packs get tested annually by the manufacturer, or if there ANY problems with the bottle its self or the regulators we will have them looked at by the manufacturer. As for basic stuff, each morning the bottles on the first due engine are checked just to make sure they are full (you never know when something might spring a leak). And weekly, the PASS devices are tested and we flow air through them briefly. 

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