Mississippi fire drill log
Personal Care Home — Assisted Living: One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year.
What Mississippi requires
One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year.
15 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 16, Subpt. 1, Ch. 47 (minimum standards for personal care homes — assisted living); fire drills at Rule 15-16-1-47.22.1. Institutions for the aged or infirm sit at Ch. 45. · Mississippi State Department of Health — Health Facilities Licensure · 15 Miss. Admin. Code Rule 15-16-1-47.22.1 · checked July 2026Filling 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 Mississippi 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 — Mississippi’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 Mississippi?
- Personal Care Home — Assisted Living: One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year. Source: Mississippi State Department of Health — Health Facilities Licensure. Last checked July 2026.
- Who do I notify about fire drills in Mississippi?
- How long must Mississippi fire drill records be kept?