Emergency plan rules in Oregon
One license type researched, regulated by Oregon Department of Human Services — Aging and People with Disabilities. Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Oregon as Assisted Living / Residential Care Facility, by Oregon Department of Human Services — Aging and People with Disabilities.
OAR 411-054-0090 (fire and life safety); OAR 411-054-0093 (emergency and disaster planning)
Unannounced fire drills every other month, at different times across day, evening and night shifts — and on the alternate months, fire and life safety instruction is given to staff instead, so something happens every month. Separately, a drill of the emergency preparedness plan at least twice a year under the Oregon Fire Code.
- Oregon runs statewide wildfire evacuation levels (Level 1 Be Ready, Level 2 Be Set, Level 3 Go Now). Plans in Oregon are expected to use that vocabulary rather than generic evacuation language, because that is what county alerts will say.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
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Everything else we’ve researched about Oregon
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Oregon rent late fees & grace periodWhat may be charged when rent is late, and the notice to send.
- Oregon notice to pay rent or quitHow many days' notice before a nonpayment filing, counted on a calendar.
- Oregon deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Oregon deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Oregon deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
What this page is
The requirements Oregon 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 and is driven by this same research, so the two cannot disagree about what Oregon requires. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.