The fire marshal's visit surfaces what the daily walk-through doesn't. The sprinkler head in the pharmacy storage that's been painted over three times. The hydrant in the east wing stairwell where the cabinet door doesn't fully open because maintenance bolted a conduit bracket two inches too close. These aren't hypotheticals — they're the findings that appear in the non-conformity log after every serious hospital fire inspection, and they exist because no one recorded them the first time.
What the CHN Inspection Actually Captures
Edificação Tipo (building type) and Risco (risk level) are the two fields that determine which regulatory standard applies to everything else in the inspection. Brazilian NBR 23 and ABNT fire safety norms apply differently to a hospital wing classified as high-risk occupancy versus a low-density administrative building on the same campus. Getting the building classification wrong at entry means every subsequent finding is being evaluated against the wrong benchmark.
Área Total Construída (m²) combined with Densidade Ocupacional gives you the occupancy density calculation — the number that determines required egress width, number of exits, and maximum distance to the nearest fire extinguisher under CBMSP protocols. A 400m² ICU with 18 beds and 12 staff at peak shift has a very different density profile than a 400m² records room with two archivists. Both require inspection; neither can be assessed with the same checklist defaults.
Carga Incêndio (fire load) is the field where most informal inspections fail. Fire load is measured in MJ/m² and reflects the combustible material density in the space — paper records rooms have fire loads above 600 MJ/m², operating theatres can run under 200 MJ/m² depending on textile storage practices. The number feeds directly into suppression system adequacy assessment. A Halon-replacement system spec'd for a low fire load server room is not adequate for a linen storage corridor.
The Non-Conformity Record
Não Conformidade is the field that creates legal accountability. Every deviation from ABNT NBR standards gets logged here with the specific Item Estrutural and Setor it belongs to — floor, sector, structural element. Vague findings ("sprinkler system needs attention") have no enforcement weight. Specific non-conformities ("Hidrante Setor B Pavimento 3 — pressão estática abaixo de 10 mca conforme NBR 13714") create a documented corrective action requirement with a named inspector, a date, and a return inspection schedule.
Sistema and Capacidade with Condição log the functional state of each suppression and detection system — hydrant flow rate, sprinkler coverage area, smoke detector operational status. Consequencias documents what failure of that specific item means for the occupant population in that sector. The difference between a detector fault in an unoccupied storage area and a detector fault above a NICU bay is not a qualitative difference — it's a regulatory classification difference that changes the urgency and required response timeline under SYGMA SMS protocols.
The Inspector as Chain of Custody
Inspetor and Data da Inspeção are the audit trail. A non-conformity finding without a named inspector and timestamp is an allegation. A finding with both is a documented record that survives the inspector's departure, the facility manager's turnover, and the three-year interval before the next mandatory CHN review.
Imagem closes the documentation gap that written descriptions can't fill. A photograph of the painted-over sprinkler head in the pharmacy, geocoded and timestamped by the device, is the evidence that transforms a verbal finding into an actionable corrective order. Localização Geográfica and Referência/Localização provide the physical location anchor — because a hospital with twelve stairwells and six wings needs more than "third floor, east side" to find a specific hydrant cabinet on a return visit.
Risco Qualitativo is the summary field — Alto, Médio, Baixo — that gives the facility safety officer the triage view across all open non-conformities. The field doesn't replace the detailed record; it indexes it for the weekly status meeting where the operations director needs to know which findings are blocking the annual ANVISA licensing renewal and which are scheduled for the next maintenance cycle.