Hawaii fire drill log
Adult Residential Care Home (ARCH), Type I: Evacuation rehearsals for staff and residents at least quarterly, covering fire, explosion or other civil emergency, with drills held at various times of the day or night at least four times a year. Each drill record shows the date, hour, personnel participating, a description of the drill and the time taken to safely evacuate residents.
What Hawaii requires
Evacuation rehearsals for staff and residents at least quarterly, covering fire, explosion or other civil emergency, with drills held at various times of the day or night at least four times a year. Each drill record shows the date, hour, personnel participating, a description of the drill and the time taken to safely evacuate residents.
HAR ch. 11-100.1, Subchapter 2 (Type I ARCH): §11-100.1-12 (emergency procedures and quarterly rehearsals); §11-100.1-23(g)(1) and (g)(3)(C)–(D) (fire inspection, evacuation plan, drills) · Hawaii Department of Health — Office of Health Care Assurance · HAR §11-100.1-12(c); §11-100.1-23(g)(3)(D) · checked September 2026Keep the record: Records of disaster evacuation and safety drills must be available for inspection by the Department of Health. The rule states no retention period in years.Filling it in so it survives a survey
Vary the time and the scenario between drills — many states require it in terms, and a log showing every drill at 10am on a Tuesday is the first thing an experienced surveyor picks out. Record what went wrong and the date it was fixed: a run of flawless drills reads as a log nobody actually ran, and the corrective action is the part that shows the drill was worth holding.
The plan behind the drills
A drill tests a plan. Everything Hawaii requires of that plan — filing, prescribed forms, retention — sits alongside this, and the emergency plan builder writes it from the same research, so the two cannot disagree.
General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Hawaii’s licensing agency and your authority having jurisdiction do. The rule above is cited and dated to when we last checked it; verify it before you rely on it.
Questions people ask
- How often are fire drills required in Hawaii?
- Adult Residential Care Home (ARCH), Type I: Evacuation rehearsals for staff and residents at least quarterly, covering fire, explosion or other civil emergency, with drills held at various times of the day or night at least four times a year. Each drill record shows the date, hour, personnel participating, a description of the drill and the time taken to safely evacuate residents. Source: Hawaii Department of Health — Office of Health Care Assurance. Last checked September 2026.
- Who do I notify about fire drills in Hawaii?
- How long must Hawaii fire drill records be kept?
- Adult Residential Care Home (ARCH), Type I: Records of disaster evacuation and safety drills must be available for inspection by the Department of Health. The rule states no retention period in years.