On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) No. 1775, which sets workplace safety training and certification standards for companies that produce live events at publicly owned and operated venues. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2023.
AB 1775 requires employees involved in the setting up, operation, or tearing down of a live event at a public events venue for an entertainment events vendor to have complied with specified training, certification, and workforce requirements. Specifically, these employees must have completed prescribed trainings of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
For vendor employees, the entertainment events vendor must certify the employees' completion of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health's (Cal/OSHA) ten-hour course (Cal/OSHA-10), OSHA's ten-hour general entertainment safety training (OSHA-10/General Entertainment Safety), or the OSHA-10 course on workplace safety and health as applicable to their occupations. For a department head or lead, certification is required regarding completion of the Cal/OSHA thirty-hour course (Cal/OSHA-30), the OSHA-30/General Entertainment Safety training, or the OSHA-30 course on workplace safety and health. In the alternative for department heads, the entertainment events vendor can provide proof of certification through the Entertainment Technician Certification Program or "certif[y] that its employees and...
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