(1) Unless exempt from the basic training requirements under WAC 388-71-0839 (1) through (7), an individual provider must take orientation and safety training and nine hours of training if he or she meets the following criteria:

(a) Provides only respite services for individuals with developmental disabilities receiving services under title 71A RCW; and

(b) Works three hundred hours or less in any calendar year.

(2) The individual provider must complete the orientation and safety training before providing care.

(3) The training partnership identified in RCW 74.39A.360 must offer at least twelve of the fourteen total hours online and five of these online hours must be individually selected from elective courses. 

(4) An individual must complete the nine hours basic training required under this section within one hundred twenty days of the long-term care worker's date of hire.