ServiceM8 form
ServiceM8 emergency and exit lighting test form
This ServiceM8 Form is a per fitting discharge test log for AS/NZS 2293.2 routine service. Each emergency luminaire or exit sign gets its ID, type, location, rated duration, measured run time on battery, result and any battery or lamp replaced. Completed against ServiceM8 assets, the Asset Register becomes the building's emergency lighting logbook.
Last checked 25 Sep 2026 against the sources listed at the end of this page.
Free form ยท AS/NZS 2293.2:2019
Emergency and exit lighting discharge test log form for electrical and fire services
A per fitting test record in the job diary and, with Asset Management, a per building emergency lighting logbook listing every fitting, its result and any battery or lamp replaced.
The form: 22 questions
| Section | Question | Type | Req. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test details | Building, level or area | Text | Yes | Matches the zone or floor used on the as installed layout drawing. |
| Test details | Technician name and licence number | Text | Yes | |
| Test details | Test type | Choice Six monthly discharge test / Yearly inspection and clean / Post repair retest / Initial baseline record | Yes | Pick the routine this visit is doing. Check the frequencies in your copy of AS/NZS 2293.2. |
| Test details | Time mains supply isolated | Text | Yes | Record as 24 hour time, for example 0915. |
| Fitting | Fitting ID | Text | Yes | The number on the fitting label and the layout drawing. |
| Fitting | Fitting type | Choice Emergency luminaire (non maintained) / Emergency luminaire (maintained) / Exit sign / Directional exit sign / Combined exit and emergency | Yes | |
| Fitting | System type | Choice Single point battery / Central battery / Self test / Computer monitored | Yes | |
| Fitting | Location description | Text | Yes | |
| Fitting | Make and model | Text | ||
| Fitting | Rated duration (minutes) | Number | Yes | From the fitting label. Summaries of the standard cite 90 minutes. |
| Visual check | Fitting condition | Multiple choice Diffuser damaged or missing / Housing damaged / Sign legend faded or dirty / Charge indicator not lit / Obstructed from view / Loose mounting / No defects | Yes | |
| Discharge test | Stayed lit for rated duration | Choice Yes / No | Yes | |
| Discharge test | Time to failure (minutes) | Number | Only if it went out early. Skip this question when the answer above is Yes. | |
| Discharge test | Charge indicator lit after mains restored | Choice Yes / No / Not fitted | Yes | |
| Result | Result | Choice Pass / Fail, critical / Fail, non critical | Yes | Critical defects are reported to the owner before you leave site. |
| Result | Action taken | Multiple choice Battery replaced / Lamp or LED module replaced / Fitting replaced / Cleaned / Quote to follow / No action needed | Yes | |
| Result | Battery date code or install date | Text | Helps plan battery replacement before the next test. | |
| Result | Photo of fitting | Photo | ||
| Result | Photo of defect | Photo | ||
| Result | Comments | Text | ||
| Result | Date of next test due | Date | Yes | |
| Sign off | Technician signature | Signature | Yes |
Set it up in ServiceM8
- Turn on Asset Management in Settings > ServiceM8 Addons and create an asset type called Emergency light, with fields for fitting type, system type and rated duration.
- If the client already has a fitting schedule, put it in a CSV and use Settings > Assets > Bulk Import for that client and asset type, then link each asset to a QR label on the first visit.
- In Settings > Forms > Add Form, add the questions above in order. Choice means Multiple Choice and Multiple choice means Multiple Choice (Multi-answer). Tick Mandatory where required is true.
- On Time to failure, add a Skip Question If condition: skip when Stayed lit for rated duration equals Yes.
- Download the sample template, lay it out as a logbook row with your logo and the building address, and upload it as the form template.
- Create a Form Follow Up automation for this form: condition Result contains Fail, created on job completion, so every failed fitting from the visit lands in one Inbox message.
- Set up a recurring job for each site at six monthly intervals using a job template that carries the Emergency light badge.
The logbook the building has to keep
Emergency lighting sits outside most of the fire equipment a contractor services under AS 1851. Its routine inspection and maintenance come from its own standard, AS/NZS 2293.2. Queensland's building fire safety guideline names AS/NZS 2293.2 as the maintenance standard for emergency lighting, and Victoria lists emergency lighting as an essential safety measure in Schedule 8 of the Building Regulations 2018, so in both states the owner or occupier has to show the fittings were tested.
What they show is the logbook: one line per fitting per test, with the date, the result and what was done about any failure. Published summaries of AS/NZS 2293.2:2019 describe a full discharge test at six monthly intervals, where mains supply is cut and each fitting must stay lit on its own battery for its rated duration (90 minutes is the figure those summaries give). The standard is sold by Standards Australia, so confirm the interval and duration against your own copy before you print them on a client report.
Why this form is built per fitting
A floor of a commercial building can carry dozens of emergency luminaires and exit signs, and a failed test is always about one fitting, not the building. So the form is completed once per fitting, not once per site. Each fitting becomes a ServiceM8 asset with a QR label, the tester scans it during the discharge test, and the form records that fitting's result against its own history. ServiceM8 shows past answers for the asset on each question, which makes a battery that only just scraped through last time easy to spot.
If you take over a building with an existing fitting schedule, you do not have to create every asset by hand. ServiceM8's bulk import takes a CSV of assets for one client and one asset type at a time, and each imported asset is then linked to a QR label on site the first time it is tested.
Turning failures into quoted work
The money in emergency lighting is the rectification, not the test. ServiceM8's Form Follow Up automation can raise an Inbox message when a form answer matches a condition, such as Result equals Fail. Set it to fire on job completion rather than on each form, and ServiceM8 combines every failed fitting from that visit into one message you can convert to a quote or a repair job. Pair it with a recurring job every six months per site so the next discharge test is booked before anyone forgets it.
What this form will not do
- ServiceM8 does not time the discharge test. The technician enters the result; a self test or computer monitored system's own report should be attached to the job as well.
- The form cannot check the rated duration or test interval against AS/NZS 2293.2. Those figures come from published summaries of a paywalled standard, so confirm them in your copy.
- Without Asset Management, each fitting is a separate PDF and there is no single logbook for the building.
- State rules decide who must keep the logbook and for how long (in Queensland it sits with the occupier's maintenance records). The form records the test; it does not replace those obligations.
Sources
- Queensland's MP 6.1 guideline lists AS/NZS 2293.2 as the inspection and maintenance standard for emergency lighting in buildings constructed after 12 September 2005, while other prescribed fire safety installations (except passive installations and fire blankets) are maintained to AS 1851. Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning, QDC MP 6.1 guideline (December 2011), checked 25 Sep 2026.
- Emergency lighting is an essential safety measure in Victoria (Schedule 8, Part 4) and exit signs are listed in Schedule 8, Part 3 of the Building Regulations 2018. Building Regulations 2018 (Vic), version 031 (as at 1 September 2026), checked 25 Sep 2026.
- Summaries of AS/NZS 2293.2:2019 describe a six monthly battery discharge test on all emergency and exit lights, run for the rated 90 minute duration, plus a yearly inspection and cleaning of fittings, with results kept in a record. Horsell Electrical, checked 25 Sep 2026.
- AS/NZS 2293.2:2019 introduced baseline data (the as installed record of the system) and classes defects as critical or non critical, with critical faults reported to the owner immediately. Complete Pumps and Fire Protection, checked 25 Sep 2026.
- ServiceM8 Form Follow Up automations create Inbox messages when up to three answer conditions are met, and can run on job completion so all messages for the assets on one job are combined into one. ServiceM8 Help Center, checked 25 Sep 2026.
- ServiceM8 can bulk import assets from a CSV for one client and one asset type at a time; each imported asset still needs a QR label linked on site before forms can be completed against it. ServiceM8 Help Center, checked 25 Sep 2026.