Emergency plan rules in New Hampshire
One licence type researched, regulated by New Hampshire DHHS — Health Facilities Administration. Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in New Hampshire as Assisted Living Residence — Residential Care (ALR-RC), by New Hampshire DHHS — Health Facilities Administration.
N.H. Admin. Code He-P 804 (assisted living residence — residential care licensing); fire safety at He-P 804.26. Adult family care residences sit at He-P 813 and He-P 814.23.
Not less than six fire drills a year on a bimonthly basis, with not less than two conducted during the dark of night when a majority of residents are sleeping.
NH DHHS Fire Drill Log — New Hampshire DHHS publishes a Fire Drill Log form. Using the state's own log is the simplest way to satisfy the record requirement.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
What this page is
The requirements New Hampshire 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 floor does not vary by state. OSHA 29 CFR §1910.38 binds any employer: reporting an emergency, evacuation and exit-route assignments, critical-operations shutdown, accounting for everyone afterwards, rescue and medical duties, and naming who to ask about the plan. 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 and is driven by this same research, so the two cannot disagree about what New Hampshire requires. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.