Kentucky staff emergency training

Provide emergency and disaster training to all staff at initial orientation and annually, and make it available to residents annually. Staff who have not had this training may work only when trained staff are also working on site.

What Kentucky requires

Assisted Living Community (ALC), Assisted Living Community with Basic Health Care (ALC-BH), or Assisted Living Community with Dementia Care (ALC-DC) — Emergency and disaster training

Provide emergency and disaster training to all staff at initial orientation and annually, and make it available to residents annually. Staff who have not had this training may work only when trained staff are also working on site.

902 KAR 20:480 Section 12(2) · Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Office of Inspector General, Division of Health Care · 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 Kentucky’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 Kentucky readiness sheet.

Everything else we’ve researched about Kentucky

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.