If you have more than five employees in California, it may be time to launch an official training program. Many training requirements affect California businesses with five or more employees.
Here are some of the trainings to include when creating your employee training program in California:
Harassment Prevention Training
California law SB 1343 requires all employers with five or more employees to provide sexual harassment prevention training and abusive conduct prevention (anti-bullying) training to all employees every two years.
- Non-supervisory employees must receive a minimum of 1 training hour
- Supervisory employees must receive a minimum of 2 training hours.
Government code section 12950.1 requires “interactive, effective” training, which can include in-person classroom training, e-learning online courses, or webinar-based training led by a qualified trainer.
If your California business has employees who reside in another state, they still need to take this training every two years.
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Mandated Reporter Training
Many California professionals are designated as mandated reporters, individuals with a requirement to report suspected instances of abuse and neglect. As an employer, you may have a requirement to provide training for mandated professionals on your payroll.
Several California bills create mandated reporter training requirements for these professionals, including:
- AB 1432: Teachers and school personnel must train annually
- AB 1207: Daycare and childcare providers must train every two years
- AB 1963: HR employees and supervisors who oversee teen workers if you have five or more employees
- AB 506: Employees, administrators, and volunteers who work with children (youth-serving organizations)
California encourages employers to provide training for all mandated reporters, even if there is no specific law that requires it.
Explore profession-specific mandated reporter training in our course catalog.
Health and Safety Training
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, employers have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace, which includes providing safety training in a language and vocabulary workers can understand. You can find guidance for developing your health and safety program from Cal/OSHA.
Workplace safety training should include:
- Workplace Violence Prevention: guidelines for recognizing and preventing workplace violence.
- Emergency Procedures: Training on updated procedures for handling emergencies, including natural disasters and active shooter situations.
Implicit Bias Training
For medical professionals in California, Implicit Bias training has recently joined the list of required trainings. SB 464 requires hospitals, alternative birth centers and primary care clinics to conduct evidence-based implicit bias training for all health professionals who provide care during a patient’s pregnancy, childbirth, and immediate postpartum period, and AB 1407 requires implicit bias training for registered nurses obtaining or renewing their license.
Explore Implicit Bias for Registered Nurses in our course catalog.
Launch Your CA Employee Training Program
If you have five or more employees working in your California business, the Mandated Reporter Training platform can help you launch your training program. Organizations of all sizes utilize our platform to invite learners, assign training, track completion, access reports, and issue certificates of completion from one convenient dashboard.
We are the #1 platform for mandated reporter training, and our course catalog includes additional training courses, including Harassment Prevention Training, Implicit Bias Training, and more. Our training courses are available online and on-demand, which helps your employees train when it’s convenient.
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