— Compliance Campaign
Brief · California · 2026
California employers with 10+ in-state employees are subject to the most comprehensive general-industry workplace violence law in the United States. Kestralis builds defensible programs — not form-filler plans.
— Smaller California operation?
Templates, training, and support from $199 — built specifically for California small businesses that don't need a custom enterprise engagement.
— Free tool · ~90 seconds
Find your 3-year California workplace violence exposure across Cal/OSHA penalties, civil liability, workers’ comp, productivity, and insurance — from federal and state data, with a personalized PDF.
What SB-553 requires
California Labor Code § 6401.9
A Workplace Violence Prevention Plan that addresses the required 11 procedural elements, tailored to each work area and operation — not a template.
Operational recordkeeping of every incident, regardless of injury, with the 10 required data elements. Retained for five years.
Initial, annual, and periodic training when plans or procedures are updated. Training must be interactive, delivered by a knowledgeable person, and appropriate to workers' language and literacy. Appropriate records are maintained for at least 1 year.
Hazard assessment records, incident logs, and investigation records. Retained five years and produced on request for Cal/OSHA.
— Common failures
Every item below is citable on its own — and every one of them is routine in plans written to meet the July 2024 deadline.
Three ways to start — free
Interactive · ~10 min · ReadyState
An interactive scorecard that maps your current state against every SB-553 requirement. No login. No email gate. Bring the results to a consultation and we'll scope the work from there.
Launch ReadyStatePDF · Instant · 12-Point Assessment Guide
The same 12-point assessment instrument our principals run before every engagement. Read it on your own, at your own pace. No login. No email gate.
Calculator · ~90 sec · For CFO & GC
A defensible dollar figure across Cal/OSHA penalties, civil liability, workers' comp, productivity, and insurance impact. Federal data only. Personalized PDF you can forward to the CFO or GC.
Run the calculatorThree ways to engage
Pricing reflects single-location mid-market engagements. Multi-site, regulated, or complex programs are scoped individually after a thirty-minute consultation.
Tier 01
$3,500 – $6,500
Five-business-day engagement
Practitioner review of your current state — plan, log, training, and hazard assessment — against all SB-553 requirements.
Best for: Existing 2024 plans needing an independent review, or employers facing imminent Cal/OSHA inspection.
Schedule a ConsultationTier 02
$8,500 – $18,000
Four to six weeks · single location
End-to-end build of your written plan, log system, training program, and Threat Assessment Team — site-specific, not templated.
Best for: From-scratch programs, or 2024 plans that need a full rebuild before the permanent Cal/OSHA standard.
Schedule a ConsultationTier 03
$2,000 – $4,000 / month
Annual retainer
We own the plan's annual cadence — review, retraining, regulatory monitoring, and on-call consultation when threats arise.
Best for: Organizations that want SB-553 compliance handled without standing up an internal owner.
Schedule a ConsultationFrequently asked
Any California employer with 10 or more employees in the state — including out-of-state employers with California-based workers. A small number of industries are exempt (primarily those already regulated under the separate healthcare workplace violence standard).
Cal/OSHA can cite up to $25,000 for a serious violation and up to $162,851 for a willful violation. More importantly, a citable deficiency becomes available evidence in any downstream civil action alleging negligent safety practices.
Most plans written in 2024 were generic templates filed to meet the deadline. Cal/OSHA's permanent workplace violence standard is due by end of 2026 — every existing plan will need to be updated. Annual review, retraining, and ongoing incident-log discipline are additional requirements most employers have not operationalized.
We are not an HR firm selling templates. Our principals have designed and run enterprise-scale security programs and managed real threat cases, and a licensed private investigations capability is in-house when a case requires it. We build programs that work, not binders that check a box.
— Complete Compliance
California's workplace safety framework extends beyond the Workplace Violence Prevention Plan. Every California employer is also required to maintain a written Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) under 8 CCR § 3203 — covering general hazard identification, incident investigation procedures, correction tracking, and employee safety communication systems. Hazard-specific written programs (Heat Illness Prevention, Hazard Communication, and others) apply based on industry and workplace conditions.
Kestralis Group focuses on workplace violence prevention, behavioral threat assessment, and security advisory — the areas where our principals' operational and enterprise credentials produce the most defensible outcomes. For the full Cal/OSHA compliance picture, we work alongside specialist partners and can connect clients with the right resources for IIPP development, hazard-specific programs, and harassment prevention training.
If you are not certain where your organization stands on the complete California compliance obligation, start with our SB-553 Readiness Assessment. The assessment process surfaces adjacent compliance gaps and we will tell you honestly what falls within our scope and what requires a different specialist.
Operating outside California too? View the full national compliance guide →
WVPP
Workplace Violence Prevention Plan — SB-553 / Labor Code § 6401.9
IIPP
Injury & Illness Prevention Program — 8 CCR § 3203
IIPP + WVPP
Kestralis Group builds both as a single coherent system
Before you book a consultation
Want to evaluate where your plan stands before talking to us? The 12-point assessment guide is the same instrument we run before every engagement.
Next step
Thirty minutes — no procurement gauntlet. We'll review your current state (including any ReadyState results you bring) and scope the right tier from there.
