Michigan staff emergency training

Staff must be instructed and retrained quarterly each calendar year, and new staff on hire, in their duties under the emergency preparedness plan and in the fire alarm and fire protection equipment. Training records are kept for 2 years.

What Michigan requires

Adult Foster Care Facility — Quarterly staff training

Staff must be instructed and retrained quarterly each calendar year, and new staff on hire, in their duties under the emergency preparedness plan and in the fire alarm and fire protection equipment. Training records are kept for 2 years.

Mich. Admin. Code R 400.619(7) · Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems · checked September 2026Deadline: the day the person starts work.
Home for the Aged (HFA) — Staff trained on the disaster plan

Personnel must be trained to perform their assigned tasks in accordance with the disaster plan.

Mich. Admin. Code R 325.1981(3) · Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems · checked September 2026
Home for the Aged (HFA) — Board-and-care homes: drills every quarter on each shift

In an existing board-and-care home for the aged (Part B of R 29.1851), emergency egress and relocation drills must be held at least once per quarter per scheduled shift: daytime 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., evening 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., and night 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Staff must review the fire plan instruction at least every 2 months.

Mich. Admin. Code R 29.1851 Part B (NFPA 101-2012 §33.7.3.1, §33.7.1.3 as adopted) · Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems · 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 Michigan’s window, which is the thing actually being asked. The Michigan fire drill log is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Michigan readiness sheet.

Everything else we’ve researched about Michigan

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.