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15 April 2026 · 4 min read

Fire drills, equipment, and exits that actually work

A fire-safety system needs a written policy, an evacuation procedure, staff trained in it, exits that are genuinely accessible, working equipment, alarms, emergency lighting where required, and a documented drill history — the full chain, not a subset that happens to be easy to demonstrate.

A drill record needs to capture the date, time, scenario, rooms involved, how long the evacuation actually took, who was present, what went wrong, and — the step most likely to be skipped — what corrective action followed. A drill nobody reviews afterward is weak evidence of anything, even if it happened.

Firefighting equipment and smoke alarms need their own maintenance log: type, number, location, inspection, and servicing dates, which is one of the specific things Tusla's inspection notebook checks directly. Exits, separately, need to stay genuinely unobstructed, usable, and clearly identified — locking or blocking an emergency exit in a way that would slow evacuation defeats the entire system regardless of how good the paperwork behind it looks.

Bloomffy tracks drills and equipment/alarm servicing as their own records — drills with their own log, servicing on its own retention-appropriate schedule (five years, per the regulation) — and both are exportable as a clean, printable log from the reports hub, filterable the same way attendance and incident exports already are, because the actual build target here was never a bespoke "Tusla format," it's making every record type an inspector could plausibly ask for producible on demand.

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