Extinguisher inspection tags — what the inspector checks

For portable fire extinguishers, the inspector's eyes go to the tag: current annual inspection, monthly checks initialed, gauge in the green, and the unit accessible and mounted. A missing tag reads the same as a missing inspection. Who owns extinguisher rounds on your property, and how do you catch a tag that expired between vendor visits?

Extinguishers are the classic case of a deficiency you can see coming a year away — the tag tells you the month it expires — and it still gets written, because the vendor's schedule and the inspector's schedule never promised to coordinate. A monthly initials habit is boring right up until it saves you. The gauge, the pin, the access, and the tag: four things, thirty seconds each. Who walks the extinguishers on your property, and how do you catch a vendor tag that lapses right before an inspection?