Ohio resident emergency information

Train staff in fire control and evacuation procedures within three working days of starting work. Regularly scheduled staff on all shifts receive annual fire prevention training from the state fire marshal or a local fire department. Train all residents in what to do in a fire, tornado, disaster or other emergency.

What Ohio requires

Residential Care Facility — Staff and resident fire and disaster training

Train staff in fire control and evacuation procedures within three working days of starting work. Regularly scheduled staff on all shifts receive annual fire prevention training from the state fire marshal or a local fire department. Train all residents in what to do in a fire, tornado, disaster or other emergency.

Ohio Admin. Code 3701-16-13 (P)-(R) · Ohio Department of Health · checked September 2026

Recording it, not just doing it

Ohio states no deadline we have verified, so this sheet does not invent one. It records the orientation, what the resident needs in an evacuation, and who is responsible for them — which is what the rule above asks you to hold. The Ohio staff training record is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Ohio readiness sheet.

It stays on your device

Mobility and assistance needs are health information about a named person. Nothing typed here is sent anywhere, and the shared building record keeps only the date an orientation happened — never what the sheet said about the resident.

Everything else we’ve researched about Ohio

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.

General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. The rule above is cited and dated to when we last checked it.