Alabama survey readiness

What Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

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

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29 of the outstanding items are the ones a survey opens with.

Alabama — Assisted Living Facility / Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility

What Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

Must be done, on a scheduleWhen did it last happen, and was that inside the interval?

Drills at the required frequency: Fire drills at least ONCE PER MONTH in all facilities, at varying times and days — and quarterly on each shift in Group and Congregate facilities. Drills must involve the ACTUAL EVACUATION of residents to assembly areas in adjacent smoke compartments or to the exterior, as specified in the emergency plan.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 (fire and safety); physical environment at 420-5-4-.12. Specialty care assisted living carries its own rule set. · Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards · keep: Written observations of the effectiveness of the fire drill plan are assessed monthly, filed, and kept for at least 3 years.

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Alabama does not merely require the drill to be logged. Written observations of the EFFECTIVENESS of the fire drill plan must be assessed every month, filed, and kept three years. The monthly artefact is an evaluation of the plan, not a record of attendance.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 · Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards

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Records to retainHow far back can you produce the records?

Drills at the required frequency: Fire drills at least ONCE PER MONTH in all facilities, at varying times and days — and quarterly on each shift in Group and Congregate facilities. Drills must involve the ACTUAL EVACUATION of residents to assembly areas in adjacent smoke compartments or to the exterior, as specified in the emergency plan.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 (fire and safety); physical environment at 420-5-4-.12. Specialty care assisted living carries its own rule set. · Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards · keep: Written observations of the effectiveness of the fire drill plan are assessed monthly, filed, and kept for at least 3 years.

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Written observations of the effectiveness of the fire drill plan are assessed monthly, filed, and kept for at least 3 years.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 (fire and safety); physical environment at 420-5-4-.12. Specialty care assisted living carries its own rule set. · Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards · keep: Written observations of the effectiveness of the fire drill plan are assessed monthly, filed, and kept for at least 3 years.

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Alabama does not merely require the drill to be logged. Written observations of the EFFECTIVENESS of the fire drill plan must be assessed every month, filed, and kept three years. The monthly artefact is an evaluation of the plan, not a record of attendance.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 · Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards

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Life-safety systems

The code-based tests a life-safety survey opens with. These are the starred ones — the full schedule is the compliance calendar.

Test record

NFPA 72 Table 14.4.3.2 (supervisory device testing) (2022) · national · keep: Minimum 5 years

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Certificate + inspection report

NFPA 72 §14.4 (annual ITM) (2022) · national · keep: Minimum 5 years

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Test record

NFPA 25 §5.3.3 / §13.7 (2023) · national · keep: Life of system

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Static + residual pressures; compare to prior; >10% drop investigated

NFPA 25 §5.3.3 (main drain quarterly where sole supply passes through backflow preventer or PRV) (2023) · national · keep: Life of system

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Pressures vs prior year

NFPA 25 §13.2.5 (2023) · national · keep: Life of system

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Written record for AHJ

NFPA 80 §5.2.1 (annual, 13 criteria) (2022) · national · keep: 3 years

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Report

NFPA 110 §8.3.1 (2022) · national · keep: Per authority

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Damper log with location, ID, pass/fail and corrective action.

NFPA 80 §19.4 / NFPA 105 Ch. 6 (2022) · national · keep: Until the next test, minimum 3 years

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Written report listing every damper by location with pass/fail

NFPA 80 §19.4 / NFPA 105 Ch. 6 (hospital 6-year interval) (2022) · national · keep: Until the next test, minimum 3 years

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Monthly firefighter service log.

ASME A17.1 §8.6.11.1 (2019) · state-governed · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Trip test report with trip time and water delivery time.

NFPA 25 §13.4.4.2.2 (3-year full trip) (2020) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Tank inspection report.

NFPA 25 §9.2.6 (interior inspection) (2020) · national · keep: Until the next interior inspection

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Smoke control test report with fan and damper positions.

NFPA 92 §8.4.2 (dedicated: semiannual) (2021) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Signed drill sheet: date, time, shift, participants, evacuation time.

NFPA 101 §19.7.1 / CMS LSC (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Signed drill sheet.

NFPA 101 §19.7.1 / CMS LSC (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Signed drill sheet.

NFPA 101 §19.7.1 / CMS LSC (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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After-action report and improvement plan.

42 CFR §483.73(d)(2) (—) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Signed HVA.

42 CFR §483.73(a)(1) (—) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Dated plan revision.

42 CFR §483.73(a) (—) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Dated plan revision and team roster.

ASHRAE 188 / CMS QSO-17-30 (2018) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Readings against control limits.

ASHRAE 188 §7 (2018) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Receptacle test record by room.

NFPA 99 §6.3.3.2 (12-month interval applies to receptacles not listed hospital grade) (2021) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Rounds log.

NFPA 101 §19.3.6 (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Barrier log with locations.

NFPA 101 §19.3.7 (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Photo of posting with date.

29 CFR §1904.32(b)(6) (—) · national · keep: 5 years

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Temperature log by unit.

FDA Food Code §3-501.16 (cold holding, as adopted by your state) (2022) · state-governed · keep: Minimum 1 year

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Inspection report and corrective-action record.

Local AHJ (—) · local · keep: Minimum 3 years

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What Alabama requires

Assisted Living Facility / Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility — Assisted living / residential care
  • Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: Fire drills at least ONCE PER MONTH in all facilities, at varying times and days — and quarterly on each shift in Group and Congregate facilities. Drills must involve the ACTUAL EVACUATION of residents to assembly areas in adjacent smoke compartments or to the exterior, as specified in the emergency plan. Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 (fire and safety); physical environment at 420-5-4-.12. Specialty care assisted living carries its own rule set.
  • Records going back as far as the rule requires. Written observations of the effectiveness of the fire drill plan are assessed monthly, filed, and kept for at least 3 years. Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11 (fire and safety); physical environment at 420-5-4-.12. Specialty care assisted living carries its own rule set.
  • Assess the plan monthly, in writing. Alabama does not merely require the drill to be logged. Written observations of the EFFECTIVENESS of the fire drill plan must be assessed every month, filed, and kept three years. The monthly artefact is an evaluation of the plan, not a record of attendance. Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-5-4-.11
Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Alabama fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.

A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Alabama Department of Public Health — Bureau of Health Provider Standards and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.