NFPA 110 calls for a maintenance and testing program on emergency and standby power — and a record of it. PowerOps holds each unit’s cadence, captures the readings and checklists in the field, and writes every visit to a permanent, attributed record. It does not decide your compliance; it makes the diligence systematic and the evidence real.
Straight answer: compliance is decided by the standard and your authority having jurisdiction, and the requirements vary by facility. Software cannot certify you. What PowerOps does is run the program you define and produce a record you can stand behind.
Doing the testing is half of it. NFPA 110 expects the work to leave a retained record — and an inspector, insurer, or hospital facilities team will ask to see it. PowerOps makes the record a by-product of the work instead of a binder someone reconstructs the week before a survey.
Set the inspection, testing, and maintenance cadences and checklists per unit to match what the standard and your authority having jurisdiction require. The software runs the program; you define it to the rule that applies.
Technicians record readings, checklist results, photos, and serials against the specific unit on a phone — offline in a switchgear room or a below-grade vault, syncing when signal returns. No transcription, no lost slips.
Each completed activity is written by the named, authenticated person who did it, at a server timestamp, to an append-only record — so the history cannot be quietly rewritten after the fact.
NFPA 110 record-keeping is not a snapshot — it is a history the standard expects you to retain. PowerOps keeps it against the equipment, for as long as you service it.
Each generator and transfer switch carries make, model, serial, kW, ATS, and fuel type — so a test result is tied to the exact asset it was performed on, not a vague site note.
A due / coming-due / overdue view and auto-generated work orders mean routine inspection and testing come up on schedule instead of being noticed after they were missed.
Each inspection, test, and PM is preserved with the named performer and server timestamp, un-editable after the fact — the retained record the standard expects, ready to produce.
Who can view, act, and sign off is controlled by role, and permission changes are themselves logged — so the record’s chain of accountability is intact, not just the entries.
| For the record | Spreadsheet / paper log | PowerOps |
|---|---|---|
| Tied to the specific unit’s identity and history | ||
| Attributed to a named, authenticated performer | ||
| Server timestamp, not a hand-written date | ||
| Append-only — cannot be silently edited later | ||
| Surfaces the next due task before it lapses |
A log proves a test happened only if you trust that no one changed it. The value of an attributed, append-only record is that it holds up precisely when someone has a reason to doubt it.
It is software that systemizes the inspection, testing, and maintenance of emergency and standby power systems and produces the written record those activities are expected to leave behind. NFPA 110 — the standard for emergency and standby power systems — calls for a routine maintenance and operational testing program and for records of that work to be retained. PowerOps holds each unit’s cadence, captures the readings and checklists in the field, and writes the result to a permanent, attributed record you can produce on demand.
No software can. Compliance is determined by the standard and by the authority having jurisdiction, and the specific inspection, testing, and maintenance requirements and their frequencies vary by system and facility. What software does is systemize the diligence — configure the cadences and checklists to match what the standard and your AHJ require, prompt the work before it slips, and capture the evidence — so that when you are asked to demonstrate the program, the record exists. It supports compliance; it does not decide it.
The standard expects a maintained record of inspection, testing, and maintenance, kept over the life of the system. PowerOps captures each activity against the specific unit — readings, checklist results, photos, serials — and writes it to an append-only record by the named, authenticated person who performed it, at a server timestamp. Because that record cannot be silently edited after the fact, it is the kind of history a facility, an insurer, or an inspector will accept.
You configure them. Each generator carries its own schedule, and PowerOps rolls it into a due / coming-due / overdue view and generates the work when a task comes up — so routine testing and maintenance surface before they lapse. The cadences you set should reflect what the governing standard and your AHJ require for each system; the software runs the program you define, it does not invent the intervals.
A record is only worth as much as its integrity. If a maintenance log can be edited after the fact with no trail, it proves little. PowerOps writes each completed inspection, test, and PM to a record tied to a named, authenticated user and a server timestamp that cannot be silently changed — so the answer to “who performed this test, on this unit, on this date, and what did they see” is a single, defensible entry rather than a story reconstructed later.
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