AB 547 Harassment Training Must Be In-Person: online sexual harassment prevention training is NOT compliant for California janitorial service providers.
AB 547 Harassment Training Must Be In-Person
Online sexual harassment prevention training is NOT compliant for California janitorial service providers.
Here’s why:
In 2019, California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 547, which requires janitorial employers to provide in-person training in preventing sexual violence and harassment at least once every two years.
While the training must be offered by a qualified trainer under the statute, and must use the curriculum developed by the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) under the direction of the Department of Industrial Relations, the training must also be delivered in-person. In-person requires classroom training. Therefore online training cannot be compliant with AB 547 requirements.
AB 547 harassment training versus SB 1343 SHPT
There are other key differences between the training that must be provided by janitorial service companies and the state minimum requirement otherwise.
For example, janitorial service providers must provide two hours of training to both supervisory and nonsupervisory workers, whereas the state minimum requirement outside of AB 547 calls for only supervisors to receive two hours of training, while nonsupervisory personnel only need one hour of SHPT.
AB 547 harassment training is limited in scope
AB 547 doesn’t apply to companies that hire janitorial service providers. So if your office cleaner is an independent contractor, they take care of this training themself. There are worker job duties exclusions too, having to do with specialization and other job requirements. So even within the profession, the impact of AB 547 is limited.
At California Required Training Solutions, we can’t train the workers of janitorial service providers.
At California Required Training Solutions, we specialize in online sexual harassment prevention training only. This is because we find that this particular training is most effective when the content is delivered individually, at the learners’ own pace, and in private.
So we don’t offer AB 547-compliant classes for janitorial service providers.
But we want to train everyone else.
Because our focus on just this subject matter makes us the best choice for every other profession’s sexual harassment prevention training.
We make it easy.
California Required Training Solutions offers a fast, simple online training solution to California’s sexual harassment prevention training mandate. www.calreq.com features fully compliant online courses that are self-paced, timed, bookmarked, and can be taken from a host of mobile devices anywhere the internet is available. Course students can stop/start as many times as necessary without losing their place or progress, and retest until they pass. Upon finishing the course, students can immediately download and print/email a certificate of completion.
Employers find California Required Training Solutions’ online retail shopping cart system easy to use and course licensing easy to administer post-purchase. Upon adding the desired number of supervisor or non-supervisor, “for yourself” or “for staff” courses in English or Spanish to the cart, purchase is completed using a credit card.
Immediately, the purchaser is placed into any “for yourself” courses while simultaneously emailed a dedicated set of unique links for the “for staff” courses. These links can be forwarded individually to each employee. Thereafter, the purchaser can log in to the site’s dashboard to generate a real-time report showing which link has been used by which employee, whether or not the employee has begun or finished the training, and can download a copy of each completed student’s certificate.
Finally, all our generated certificates can be validated via our certificate number lookup tool to ensure that they are genuine.
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