Emergency & disaster drill log

This is not the fire drill log

Fire drills belong in the fire drill log, which is a separate record with its own history behind it. This one is for everything else: severe weather / tornado, hurricane, earthquake, flood, utility / power failure, missing person, active threat / security event, hazardous material and whatever else your plan covers.

They are kept apart deliberately. A fire drill answers to a fire code and is counted per shift per quarter in most licensed occupancies; a weather drill or a lockdown answers to a different authority and is counted differently or not at all. Filed together, a building with four of each would read as eight fire drills to anything counting them — which is the one thing a compliance record must never do.

Scenario and response are two questions

A tornado drill where everybody sheltered in place and a tornado drill where the building evacuated are different exercises, and the single “type of drill” box on most paper forms cannot record which one you ran. So you pick the scenario and the response separately: evacuation, shelter-in-place, lockdown, relocation, or something of your own.

How many you owe is not our call

This tool states no frequency. How many drills you owe, of what kind, and on which shifts is set by your licensor, your state and your accreditor, and they disagree. Ask them; the record works whatever the answer.

Counts, not names

Resident participation is recorded as how they took part and how many — never who. A drill record is filed, printed and handed to people who have no business reading a resident’s name or anything clinical, and there is nowhere in this tool to put one.

The record reads in the order somebody needs it

What we tested. Who participated. What happened. What failed. What we are fixing, who owns it and by when. Then the signatures. The middle two are the ones people leave blank on paper forms and the ones a reviewer actually turns to.

Two drills on one day are two drills

A tornado drill on the day shift and a lockdown that evening are distinct exercises that happen to share a calendar square. Each one is filed as its own record, so correcting one never overwrites the other.

After the drill

If it showed the plan itself needs changing, that lives in the emergency plan. What people were taught afterwards goes on a training record, and a physical problem the drill turned up becomes a work order.

This is for non-fire, all-hazard drills. Fire drills belong in the Fire Drill Log, which is a separate record with its own history. CompliMaint states no frequency for emergency or disaster drills: how many you owe, of what kind, and on which shifts is set by your licensor, your state and your accreditor, and they differ. This records the drill you ran; it makes no determination that any facility is compliant. Everything runs on your device.