The Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Industrial Relations (usually known colloquially as Cal/OSHA) is currently engaged in a rulemaking implementing SB 553, passed by the Legislature in 2024 to require employers to adopt workplace violence prevention plans. That legislation also included a direction to Cal/OSHA to draft and submit to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board for consideration regulation to augment the requirements of SB 553.

Cal/OSHA recently published an unofficial appeal to the stakeholder community for information about the costs of implementing SB 553. It is a short online survey designed to assess employers’ actions to date to implement SB 554. The agency has retained The Rand Corporation to undertake the survey, and promises that results will be aggregated and that individual results will not be reported.

If you would like to furnish information for this survey, you can click here.