Emergency plan rules in Kansas
One licence type researched, regulated by Kansas Dept. for Aging and Disability Services / State Fire Marshal. Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Kansas as Assisted Living Facility, by Kansas Dept. for Aging and Disability Services / State Fire Marshal.
K.A.R. 26-41 (assisted living facilities and residential health care facilities); disaster and emergency preparedness at K.A.R. 26-41-104; administration at 26-41-101
Fire drills at least once every three months.
Kansas puts the obligation on the administrator personally: ensuring there is SUFFICIENT STAFF to care for and assist residents in the event of an emergency or disaster. The written emergency plan must also cover the specific emergencies and disasters the regulation names. Most states require a plan; Kansas requires someone to own whether enough people will be there.
K.A.R. 26-41-104Reviewed 2026-07-30
What this page is
The requirements Kansas 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 floor does not vary by state. OSHA 29 CFR §1910.38 binds any employer: reporting an emergency, evacuation and exit-route assignments, critical-operations shutdown, accounting for everyone afterwards, rescue and medical duties, and naming who to ask about the plan. 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 Kansas requires. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.