New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 37A - LICENSED COMMUNITY RESIDENCES FOR ADULTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES
Subchapter 8 - FACILITY
Section 10:37A-8.14 - Fire drills

1. Fire drills shall be conducted monthly with at least one drill being conducted on each staff covered shift each quarter. Within a 12-month period, at least one of the drills on each staff covered shift shall be conducted with an activated hard-wired fire alarm system, if the home is equipped with such a system. The drills that are conducted without activating a hard-wired fire alarm system shall be initiated by activating a battery powered smoke detector.

2. Evacuation shall be completed in less than three minutes. If timely evacuation without assistance is not possible, a plan must be developed and documented to accommodate each consumer needing assistance, and all plans must be executable at the same time. Assistance may be provided without such plans if needed in A+ supervised residences in which staff are continuously stationed whenever a consumer is home. In the event that an evacuation takes three minutes or longer, the PA in supervised residences shall develop and implement a plan of correction that will result in compliance with this standard.

3. For each fire drill, the time, date, participants, problem areas, resolution of problems, and timeliness of egress shall be documented by agency staff or an assigned consumer.