Arkansas staff emergency training
All staff receive orientation within 7 days on building safety and emergency measures, including safe operation of fire extinguishers and evacuation of residents from the building, and on appropriate response to emergencies.
What Arkansas requires
All staff receive orientation within 7 days on building safety and emergency measures, including safe operation of fire extinguishers and evacuation of residents from the building, and on appropriate response to emergencies.
DHS OLTC ALF Level I and Level II Rules §504.4(a)(1) (R. 01/01/2024) · Arkansas Department of Human Services — Office of Long Term Care · checked September 2026Deadline: 7 days from the date the person starts work.Proving it, not just doing it
Record the start date alongside the training date. The training date alone shows the session happened; the pair shows it happened inside Arkansas’s window, which is the thing actually being asked. The fire drill log is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Arkansas readiness sheet.
General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. The rule above is cited and dated to when we last checked it.