Maryland fire drill log

Q: How long must Maryland fire drill records be kept?

Assisted Living Program: Drill records kept on file for a minimum of 2 years, including signatures of all participating staff and the opportunities for improvement identified.

A semiannual emergency and disaster drill on ALL shifts, alternating between evacuating residents and sheltering in place so that each is practiced at least once a year. Where the programme can demonstrate that moving residents would harm them, the drill may be run as a table-top exercise instead.

The building

Maryland requirements loaded — the rules below are Maryland’s own.

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How many shifts does this building run? *Maryland’s rule counts drills per shift, so this is the difference between “three drills done” and “all three shifts covered”. Saved to your facility, so nothing else asks again.

Maryland — Assisted Living Program: A semiannual emergency and disaster drill on ALL shifts, alternating between evacuating residents and sheltering in place so that each is practiced at least once a year. Where the programme can demonstrate that moving residents would harm them, the drill may be run as a table-top exercise instead.COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness) · Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality · checked Jul 2026Keep the record: Drill records kept on file for a minimum of 2 years, including signatures of all participating staff and the opportunities for improvement identified.

Your target for the year

6 drills this year. 2 per shift × 3 shifts = 6 a year.

We assumed three shifts, since this licence is staffed around the clock. Change it below if that is wrong.

Worked out from Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality's rule as we have it recorded. Confirm it against your licence before you rely on it — then leave the box below empty and we will keep using this number.

Use a different number instead

0 of 6 logged, 6 to go.

The drills

One row per drill. Vary the time of day and the scenario — most states require it explicitly, and a log showing four drills all at 10am on a Tuesday is the first thing a surveyor notices.

DateTimeShiftAnnounced?

ScenarioClear / accounted (min)StaffResidents

What went wrongWhat was done about itConducted by

What Maryland requires

Assisted Living Program — Assisted living / residential care

COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness) · Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality · COMAR 10.07.14.46/.47 · checked July 2026Keep the record: Drill records kept on file for a minimum of 2 years, including signatures of all participating staff and the opportunities for improvement identified.

Filling it in so it survives a survey

Vary the time and the scenario between drills — most 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 Maryland 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.

Everything else we’ve researched about Maryland

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.

General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Maryland’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.