Ohio staff emergency training
The plan covers evacuation of residents with physical or cognitive impairments, fire protection including when the fire alarm or sprinkler system is under maintenance or inoperative, locating missing residents, severe weather, site-specific disaster potential, and infection prevention and control during an emergency or disaster. A correctly oriented, wall-specific floor plan is posted.
What Ohio requires
The plan covers evacuation of residents with physical or cognitive impairments, fire protection including when the fire alarm or sprinkler system is under maintenance or inoperative, locating missing residents, severe weather, site-specific disaster potential, and infection prevention and control during an emergency or disaster. A correctly oriented, wall-specific floor plan is posted.
Ohio Admin. Code 3701-17-25 (A)(1)-(6), (D) · Ohio Department of Health · checked September 2026Staff, consultants and volunteers are trained and periodically updated on the disaster preparedness plan. All staff are instructed semi-annually in fire control, evacuation and disaster procedures, and regularly scheduled staff on all shifts receive annual fire prevention training from the state fire marshal or a local fire department.
Ohio Admin. Code 3701-17-25 (A), (E) · Ohio Department of Health · 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 Ohio’s window, which is the thing actually being asked. The Ohio fire drill log is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Ohio readiness sheet.
Everything else we’ve researched about Ohio
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.