Bay Area SMACNA
Safety

Harassment Training

Bay Area SMACNA Safety

California law now requires California employers with 5 or more employees to provide:

  • two hours of sexual harassment prevention training to all supervisory employees,
  • one hour of sexual harassment prevention training to all non-supervisory employees
  • all employees the above training once every two years.

Safe workforce through training

To satisfy these new requirements, Bay Area SMACNA offers various training options to member firms. Additionally, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) also provides free online training. Visit https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/shpt/ for program details and to take the training.

Note: Training for apprentices is provided and recorded by the Local 104 and Bay Area Industry Training Fund.

All California employers have an affirmative duty to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment in the workplace and to promptly correct harassment if it does occur. As part of this duty, California employers must have a written harassment, discrimination and retaliation prevention policy that is distributed to employees. The policy must meet certain strict requirements required by California law.