Emergency plan rules in Alaska
One license type researched, regulated by Alaska Department of Health, Division of Health Care Services (Assisted Living Licensing). Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Alaska as Assisted Living Home, by Alaska Department of Health, Division of Health Care Services (Assisted Living Licensing).
7 AAC 75 (Assisted Living Homes): 75.080(b)(12) (disaster preparedness and emergency evacuation plan with the license application); 75.210(d)(2) (means and materials to implement the plan); 75.270 (life and fire safety requirements of 7 AAC 10.1010); 75.340(a) (written notice of resident incidents)
An emergency evacuation drill at least once every three months for each shift.
That matches the most common figure across the states we have confirmed.
Submit a disaster preparedness and emergency evacuation plan that complies with 7 AAC 10.1010 as part of the license application.
Authority: Alaska Department of Health
Cadence: With the license application
The home must have the means and materials available to implement its disaster preparedness and emergency evacuation plan required by 7 AAC 10.1010.
7 AAC 75.210(d)(2)The home must give written notice, on a form supplied by the department, to the department, to each affected resident or that resident's representative, and to any service coordinator, within 48 hours after a resident incident of a kind listed in 7 AAC 75.340(a).
7 AAC 75.340(a)Not verified against official text: a complete evacuation of the home once a year for each shift, in addition to the quarterly drills, unless the home qualifies for the exemption tied to a plan approved by the State Fire Marshal or a deferred municipality.
7 AAC 10.1010(f)(2)(B) — not yet confirmed against primary textThe plan must include procedures for other emergency situations or natural disasters that may affect the home, including, as appropriate, tsunami, flooding and earthquake emergencies.
7 AAC 10.1010(e)(3), applied by 7 AAC 75.270 — not yet confirmed against primary textThe Department of Health takes general variance applications; its application form cites AS 47.32, 7 AAC 10.1000 and 7 AAC 75. The standard for granting a variance has not been read.
7 AAC 10.9500–10.9535; DOH General Variance Application (AS 47.32, 7 AAC 10.1000, 7 AAC 75) — not yet confirmed against primary text- Much of Alaska has no road connection, and marine or air transport can be weather-dependent for days at a time. Where the nearest receiving facility is a flight away, plan for sheltering and self-sufficiency as well as evacuation.
- The disaster plan and drill requirements for assisted living homes are not in 7 AAC 75 itself: 7 AAC 75.270 applies the life and fire safety requirements of the shared licensing standard, 7 AAC 10.1010.
- mandate[2] — Open 7 AAC 10.1010(f)(2)(B) on the Alaska Administrative Code viewer (https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp) and read the annual complete-evacuation requirement and its exemption. The research read it only on a secondary copy because the official viewer returned HTTP 403.
- mandate[3] — Open 7 AAC 10.1010(e)(3) on the Alaska Administrative Code viewer (https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp) and confirm the wording. The research read it only on a secondary copy because the official viewer returned HTTP 403.
- mandate[4] — Open 7 AAC 10.9500–10.9535 on the Alaska Administrative Code viewer (https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp) and read the standard the department applies to grant a general variance. The research could not open these sections.
Reviewed 2026-09-28
What this page is
The requirements Alaska places on a facility emergency preparedness plan, taken from the state’s own rules rather than a national template. Where we have confirmed something against primary text it is stated plainly; where we have not, it says so and names what to check. Nothing here is inferred from what other states do.
The part that is the same everywhere
The federal layer does not vary by state, and it is narrower than it is usually described. OSHA 29 CFR §1910.38 does not bind every employer on its own — by its applicability paragraph it governs an emergency action plan whenever another OSHA standard requires the employer to have one, and it then settles what that plan must contain. The CMS emergency preparedness rule applies by certified provider type rather than by building. That layer, plus the exit-route, alarm and first-aid rules and the fire code’s plan structure, is covered in the main crash course rather than repeated on all fifty state pages.
Write the plan
The Emergency Plan Builder produces the document itself. It reads the same research as this page, but it does not yet carry every requirement here into the plan it writes, so check the plan against this page before you rely on it for Alaska. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.