Iowa staff emergency training
The program must submit to the department and follow written emergency policies and procedures. They must include an emergency plan with procedures for natural disasters located for easy reference, fire safety procedures, procedures for fire drills, tenant evacuation procedures, provisions for amending the plan and for periodic training of all employees, procedures for reporting and documentation, and extraordinary lifesaving measures such as CPR, among the other listed items.
What Iowa requires
The program must submit to the department and follow written emergency policies and procedures. They must include an emergency plan with procedures for natural disasters located for easy reference, fire safety procedures, procedures for fire drills, tenant evacuation procedures, provisions for amending the plan and for periodic training of all employees, procedures for reporting and documentation, and extraordinary lifesaving measures such as CPR, among the other listed items.
481 IAC 69.32(1)"a"–"k" · Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing · checked September 2026Proving 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 Iowa’s window, which is the thing actually being asked. The Iowa fire drill log is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Iowa 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.