Bill Proposes CHSWC Create Training Program for Child Care Workers

The Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation would be required to create and maintain an “Early Educator’s Occupational Safety and Health Training Program” under a bill pending before California lawmakers. Assembly Bill 676, by Monique Limon, D-Santa Barbara, would require CHSWC to create or contract for the creation of a program intended to train workers in the child care service industry about occupational safety. The program would be required to include a “one-time, two-hour, in-person, peer-led training session” on risks specific t...