Emergency plan rules in Vermont
One license type researched, regulated by Vermont Dept. of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) — Division of Licensing and Protection. Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Vermont as Assisted Living Residence / Residential Care Home, by Vermont Dept. of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) — Division of Licensing and Protection.
Assisted Living Residence and Residential Care Home Licensing Regulations, effective 1 April 2025 (Code Vt. R. 13-110-009 series); nursing homes at 13-110-005
Vermont drill frequency has not been verified against the current rules.
Read the Assisted Living Residence and Residential Care Home Licensing Regulations effective 1 April 2025, AND the 2025 Vermont Fire & Building Safety Code (28-070-001), which is a separate 2025 issuance and may carry the drill cadence. Do not rely on the 2000 residential care home regulations still circulating online.
- Vermont reissued BOTH layers in 2025: the assisted living and residential care home licensing regulations effective 1 April 2025, and the Vermont Fire & Building Safety Code. The older 2000-vintage residential care home regulations are still widely posted online and are superseded — a plan citing them is citing withdrawn rules.
- drills — Read the Assisted Living Residence and Residential Care Home Licensing Regulations effective 1 April 2025, AND the 2025 Vermont Fire & Building Safety Code (28-070-001), which is a separate 2025 issuance and may carry the drill cadence. Do not rely on the 2000 residential care home regulations still circulating online.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
What this page is
The requirements Vermont 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 Vermont requires. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.