On July 22, 2026, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board released a revised draft workplace violence prevention regulation for general industry, which sets an August 17, 2026, deadline for public comments and will likely be the last revision to the draft prior to the formal process of evaluation and adoption at the Standards Board.
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On July 22, 2026, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board released a revised draft workplace violence prevention regulation that clarifies and narrows employer-provided transportation to only include “employer-provided transportation under the employer’s control.”
The revised draft regulation no longer includes the previous exception to “Threat of Violence” that provided “The employer is not responsible for texts, electronic messages, or personal social media that are not brought to the attention of the employer or that the employer could not otherwise be reasonably aware of.”
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