Illinois staff emergency training

All personnel employed on the premises must be instructed in the use of fire extinguishers. A diagram of the evacuation route must be posted, and all personnel must be aware of the route.

What Illinois requires

Assisted Living / Shared Housing Establishment — Fire extinguisher instruction and a posted evacuation route

All personnel employed on the premises must be instructed in the use of fire extinguishers. A diagram of the evacuation route must be posted, and all personnel must be aware of the route.

77 Ill. Adm. Code 295.2040(b)(2)-(3) · Illinois Department of Public Health · checked September 2026

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 Illinois’s window, which is the thing actually being asked. The Illinois fire drill log is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Illinois readiness sheet.

Everything else we’ve researched about Illinois

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.