About CompliantCA

CompliantCA publishes plain-language guides to California workplace-safety regulations — Cal/OSHA’s Injury and Illness Prevention Program rule (8 CCR §3203) and SB 553 workplace violence prevention (Labor Code §6401.9) — together with free, printable templates for the records those rules require employers to keep.

Who it is for

California employers without a dedicated safety department: owners, office managers, and HR generalists at businesses of roughly one to a few hundred employees. The person who has been handed “make sure we’re compliant” on top of another job.

Who writes it

CompliantCA is a small, independent project based in California, operated by Tremtastic Labs, LLC. Every guide is published under the CompliantCA name and written the same way: from the text of the regulation, cited line by line, and reviewed before it goes live. How we write these guides describes the process.

We are not a law firm, and nobody here is acting as your attorney. We organize what Cal/OSHA and the Labor Code publish so it is easier to read and act on. We do not certify that any plan or program is compliant, and we do not give legal advice. Review your program with your safety officer or attorney.

What we are building

Today the site is guides and templates. We are working on tools that keep a written plan alive after it is written — training records, hazard and incident logs, retraining reminders, and an export for when an inspector asks. See the privacy policy for exactly what we store.

How we write these guides

Every guide follows the same rules, so a reader — or anyone quoting us — can tell where a claim came from and how much to trust it.

• Start from the regulation, not from other articles. Each guide is drafted from the primary text — the section of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations or the Labor Code it describes — plus Cal/OSHA’s own published guidance and model documents. Secondary sources are read for context but are not treated as authority.
• Cite inline, every time. A statement about what the law requires names the section it comes from, in that sentence or the next. Each guide ends with a Sources section linking every authority it relied on.
• Never invent a number. Penalty amounts, citation counts, and enforcement statistics are quoted only from the authority that publishes them, with the year, or linked to instead of stated.
• Say what the law says, not whether you comply. We describe requirements. We do not state that a plan, template, or program is “compliant” or “legally sufficient.” Whether a filled-in plan meets the requirement is a judgment for your safety officer or attorney.
• Review, date, and keep current. A guide is reviewed against its sources before it is published and whenever the underlying rule or guidance changes. Each guide shows its published and last-updated dates.

Contact

Corrections, questions, and suggestions: hello@compliantca.com. If a guide is wrong or out of date, we want to know; each guide shows the date it was last reviewed.