Since July 1, 2024, Labor Code 6401.9 (SB 553) requires nearly every California employer to keep a written, easy-to-find workplace violence prevention plan. Exempt: a place not open to the public with fewer than 10 employees there at any time. The plan names who is responsible and sets out how reports are taken and answered, that nobody is retaliated against for reporting, how employees learn to report and how investigations go, how emergencies are met, and how the plan is reviewed. It is reviewed every year, after every incident, and whenever a deficiency shows.

Every act or threat of violence at work goes in the log: the date, time and place, the type - (1) someone with no business there, (2) a customer or visitor, (3) a current or former worker, (4) someone with a personal relationship with a worker - what happened and the circumstances, the person's relationship to the club, and the consequences. No personal identifying information: no names, phone numbers, emails or addresses. The log is kept five years and shown to an employee within 15 days of asking.

Employees are trained when the plan is set up and every year after, and again when a new hazard appears or the plan changes. The training covers the plan and the log, how to report, the hazards of the job, and how to get help - with an interactive question-and-answer with someone who knows the plan. Each record keeps the date, the trainer and their qualifications, and the attendees' names and job titles, for one year.