Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The licensee
shall design an emergency evacuation plan for each residence, in accordance
with the Uniform Fire Safety Act,
N.J.S.A.
52:27D-192 et seq., and the individual
characteristics of the home.
1. The plan
shall be further developed by evaluating each person's ability to evacuate the
residence in three minutes or less, according to the following risk factors:
i. The person's ability to solve
problems;
ii. The person's
compliance, including any behavioral factors that adversely affect the person's
ability to evacuate; and
iii.
Medical factors, including physical disabilities, which adversely affect the
person's ability to evacuate.
2. The plan shall incorporate the following
elements:
i. A general description of the
building;
ii. Identification of all
exits that lead directly to the outside;
iii. Identification of the point(s) of
safety, a designated meeting spot at which the occupants assemble after
evacuating the premises;
iv. Any
special needs that the service recipients have and the assistance that will be
necessary to help them evacuate within three minutes, based upon the individual
emergency evacuation assessments; and
v. A single plan of prioritized and
sequential actions required to promptly evacuate everyone from the building
within three minutes.
(b) The emergency evacuation plan shall be
reviewed at least annually and revised:
1.
Within 48 hours of a new person served moving into the residence, the return of
a person served absent for more than 30 days, or the discharge of a person
served;
2. Whenever the level of
assistance required by the current occupants to evacuate the residence changes;
and
3. Thirty days following an
occupant's admission to a hospital or nursing home.
(c) All persons served shall be able to
evacuate the residence in three minutes or less.
(d) The plan shall include one or more
designated points of safety at which all persons assemble after evacuating the
premises.
(e) The licensee shall
assure that all staff persons assigned to a residence at any time have been
trained in the emergency evacuation plan for that residence.
