The Planning District shall administer the Manitoba Fire Code and associated regulations on behalf of its member municipalities requesting this service.
Types of buildings requiring fire inspections include:
Every 12 months (Annual) Inspections:
- Daycares
- Personal Care Homes
- Elderly Persons Housing
- Residential Care Facilities
- Hospitals
Every 36 months (3-year) Inspections:
- Public and private schools
- Licensed premises
- Hotels / Motels
- Recreation centres (arenas, curling rink, community club, etc.)
- Restaurants located in a building that contains 1 or more dwelling units.
Every 24 months (2-year) Inspections:
High hazard occupancies - F1 occupancy classification
- Dust producing activities
- Grain elevators
- Air drying and heating seed
- Seed cleaning
- Husking, pulverizing, crushing and milling seed
- Cereal mills
- Feed mills
- Flour Mills
- Bakery plants
- Wood operations
- Logs to wood products
- Paper processing plants
- Furniture and cabinet manufacturing
- Window and door frame plants
- Manufactured homes
- Truss and glulam plants
- Bulk plants for flammable liquids
- Bulk storage warehouses for hazardous substances
- Distilleries
- Spray painting operations
- Chemical manufacturing/processing
- Mattress factories
- Dry cleaning plant
- Lacquer factories
- Rubber processing plants
- Waste paper processing plants
- Paint, varnish and pyroxylin product factories
Inspections will be billed after the initial inspection as per the MWPD Fee Schedule By-Law.
The Mid-West Planning Board has decided that our fire inspectors will not handle hospital inspections. Those will need to be contracted out.
If you have a private business that falls into one of the types of buildings/businesses that require an inspection, please contact us to get on the inspection list.