Massachusetts fire drill log

Annual simulated evacuation drills and rehearsals, for all shifts.

The building

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

Facility name *Year

Address

State *License type

How many shifts does this building run? *Massachusetts’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.

Massachusetts — Assisted Living Residence (ALR) — certified, not licensed: Annual simulated evacuation drills and rehearsals, for all shifts.651 CMR 12.00 · Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) · checked Jul 2026Who to notify: All assisted living residences must submit their current, site-specific disaster and emergency response plan to the state. 'Site-specific' is the operative word — a corporate template covering several residences does not satisfy it. (The Commonwealth (EOEA))

Your target for the year

3 drills this year. 1 per shift × 3 shifts = 3 a year.

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

Worked out from Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA)'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 3 logged, 3 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 Massachusetts requires

Assisted Living Residence (ALR) — certified, not licensed — Assisted living / residential care

Annual simulated evacuation drills and rehearsals, for all shifts.

651 CMR 12.00 · Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) · 651 CMR 12.00 · checked July 2026Who to notify: All assisted living residences must submit their current, site-specific disaster and emergency response plan to the state. 'Site-specific' is the operative word — a corporate template covering several residences does not satisfy it. (The Commonwealth (EOEA))

Long-Term Care Facility — Skilled nursing facility

Simulated drills testing the effectiveness of the plan, conducted for all shifts at least twice a year.

105 CMR 150.000; drills at 105 CMR 150.015(E)(4) · Massachusetts Department of Public Health · 105 CMR 150.015(E)(4) · checked July 2026

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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts

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 — Massachusetts’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.