How long must Tennessee fire drill records be kept?

Assisted-Care Living Facility (ACLF): Records documenting and evaluating drills maintained for at least 3 years.

Tennessee fire drill log

Fire drills at least quarterly for each work shift, for personnel in EACH SEPARATE BUILDING, with one drill per quarter held during sleeping hours. Each drill needs a written report evaluating it and naming the action recommended or taken for any deficiency found.

The building

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

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

Tennessee — Assisted-Care Living Facility (ACLF): Fire drills at least quarterly for each work shift, for personnel in EACH SEPARATE BUILDING, with one drill per quarter held during sleeping hours. Each drill needs a written report evaluating it and naming the action recommended or taken for any deficiency found.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-08-25; Tenn. Code §68-11-236 (fire safety in assisted-care living facilities) · Tennessee Department of Health — Health Care Facilities · checked Jul 2026Keep the record: Records documenting and evaluating drills maintained for at least 3 years.

Your target for the year

12 drills this year. 4 per shift × 3 shifts = 12 a year.

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

Worked out from Tennessee Department of Health — Health Care Facilities'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 12 logged, 12 to go.

0 of them recorded on a night or sleeping-hours shift; Tennessee wants at least 4.

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 Tennessee requires

Assisted-Care Living Facility (ACLF) — Assisted living / residential care

Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-08-25; Tenn. Code §68-11-236 (fire safety in assisted-care living facilities) · Tennessee Department of Health — Health Care Facilities · Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-08-25 · checked July 2026Keep the record: Records documenting and evaluating drills maintained for at least 3 years.

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 Tennessee 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 — Tennessee’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.