Stanislav Samek
Life safety professional, OSHA specialist, and founder of Samektra Safety Management & Training — and the person who built LifeSafetyWiki from the ground up.
Who Stanislav is
Stanislav Samek is a life safety and compliance professional based in Gwinnett County, Georgia. He has spent his career at the intersection of code, field practice, and education — working with commercial facilities, healthcare organizations, and contractors across metro Atlanta to get buildings right before the fire marshal does.
He founded Samektra Safety Management & Training to serve businesses that need a practitioner — not a vendor rep — walking their facility: someone who knows what Chapter 18 of NFPA 101 actually requires, why the state-adopted edition matters, and what the inspector is going to ask about.
LifeSafetyWiki is the other half of that mission. Most of the code knowledge practitioners need is locked behind paywalls, buried in 600-page handbooks, or scattered across LinkedIn posts with no section citations. Stan built the wiki because he wanted a place to send his own clients for reference — and because the community deserved better than what was already out there.
What he focuses on
ITM & Inspections
Annual, quarterly, and monthly inspections across fire suppression, alarm, and life safety systems — with the audit trail to back it up.
Code & Standards
Deep working knowledge of NFPA, IBC, IFC, OSHA, CMS, and TJC — applied to real facilities, not slides.
Healthcare Compliance
Survey readiness, ILSM/PCRA programs, life safety risk assessments, and CMS/TJC K-tag fluency for healthcare facilities.
OSHA Programs
Written programs, training, and recordkeeping for HazCom, LOTO, respiratory protection, fall protection, and more.
Training & Education
Building practical knowledge — in the field, in the classroom, and through LifeSafetyWiki — for practitioners who need answers they can act on.
Metro Atlanta Focus
Gwinnett County based, serving the full metro Atlanta corridor with local AHJ relationships and Georgia-specific code expertise.
What he built
LifeSafetyWiki launched as a personal knowledge base and grew into a full practitioner encyclopedia — 159 wiki articles, 40+ interactive tools, 8 exam-prep study tools, and Clara, an AI assistant trained on the standards that populates every page. Every article is written to the same editorial standard: cite the section, distinguish the state-adopted edition, never invert a constraint.
The Central Station compliance cockpit decodes contractor inspection PDFs and flags failed, not-tested, and missing devices against NFPA 25 and NFPA 72 rules. The Compliance Lens mobile app extends the same logic to on-site walk-throughs before the inspection report is ever written. Both tools came out of real field problems Stan ran into repeatedly — inspection PDFs that looked clean until you read them carefully, and facilities that failed surveys for deficiencies that had been visible for months.
The YouTube channel What The Fire Code extends the educational mission beyond the wiki — short-form code breakdowns written for the people who need to use the standards, not just cite them.
What Samektra does
Inspection & ITM analysis
Annual, quarterly, and monthly ITM walk-throughs across fire suppression, alarm, and life safety systems — plus Central Station for decoding what the contractors turn in.
Run your systems as your Analyst
The managed version of compliance: Samektra runs your building’s life safety paperwork through Central Station — inspection calendar, vendor follow-ups, deficiency tracking, impairment clocks, the compliance binder, and a plain-English monthly brief. You get a read-only owner login to your own building. Start your building →
Trusted vendors & quotes
A vetted vendor network across sprinkler, alarm, suppression, and passive protection — and a concierge quote service that turns your inspection report into comparable bids from contractors we’d put in our own buildings.
Plan review & AHJ readiness
Pre-inspection walk-throughs, fire-marshal sign-off prep, CMS/TJC survey readiness, and the seven Gwinnett plan-review checklists.
OSHA program development
Written programs for HazCom, LOTO, respiratory protection, PPE, and fall protection — with training records, compliance calendars, and the recordkeeping infrastructure to stay out of trouble.
Healthcare life safety
ILSM/PCRA programs, life safety risk assessments, smoke compartment mapping, and CMS/TJC survey readiness for hospitals, ASCs, and long-term care facilities.
No life safety team? We’ll build you one.
Plenty of facilities — including hospitals — run without a dedicated life safety team. The systems still get inspected, the reports still pile up, and nobody in the building can tell you what any of it means until a surveyor or a fire marshal does it for you. Samektra closes that gap: we come in, stand the program up, train your people to run it, and leave you with resources that keep working after we drive away.
1 · Stand up the program
Walk every system in the building, build the inspection calendar, organize the document binder, and map what your codes and your AHJ actually require — the must-dos separated from the nice-to-haves.
2 · Train your people
Your engineers and facility staff learn what each system is, what it does, what the inspection cadence means, and what is absolutely non-negotiable — taught by practitioners, in your building, on your equipment.
3 · Leave the resources behind
LifeSafetyWiki reference articles, Central Station tracking, checklists, and Clara — your team keeps learning and the program keeps running long after the engagement ends.
Not just healthcare. Property management groups and their building engineers get the same treatment — understand your systems, know what’s expected, know what’s mandatory. And when a topic needs to go deep, we bring in trusted vendor experts to run hands-on technical classes — like Hilti firestop certification — so the training goes as far into the weeds as your team needs.
How he edits this site
Stan is the editor and primary author of LifeSafetyWiki. The site’s editorial standards are the same rules he applies on every engagement: cite the standard, not memory. Distinguish the state-adopted edition from the published one — where a state lags NFPA (most do), that gap is surfaced explicitly. Never invert a constraint — a reach-height maximum is a ceiling, not a range. And cross-link everything, because reading one article should let a practitioner find the related piece in one click.
Guest contributors — Jarell Sheffield, Miller Brown, Cody Collins, Kyle Brown, Taylor Hulme — are reviewed under the same standards before their work publishes. No AI-generated content ships without editorial review against the actual code section.
Get in touch
Editorial corrections, content requests, or feedback on the wiki: stanley.samek@proton.me.
Engagement inquiries — inspections, OSHA program development, plan-review readiness, healthcare life safety, life safety program buildout & team training, or running your building through Central Station: samektra.com/contact ↗.
Samektra serves metro Atlanta and Gwinnett County, Georgia. Remote code consulting available for any U.S. state — engagement work stays local.