For California adult studios and clubs with employees

The first thing the inspector asks for is the written program.

Handrail writes and keeps the Injury and Illness Prevention Program every California employer must have — all eight elements in plain words — and the work behind it: inspections when it starts, on a schedule and when a new hazard comes in, each hazard with its fix-by date; training for every new hire, assignment and hazard; and every injury investigated.

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The problem

Written, and actually done.

Title 8, section 3203 requires every California employer to establish, implement and maintain a written Injury and Illness Prevention Program: who runs it, how hazards are reported without fear of reprisal, inspections, injury investigation, correcting hazards and training. A fog machine, a new stage, a server moved to the door — each is a new hazard or assignment the program has to catch.

8 CCR 3203

every employer shall establish, implement and maintain a written program.

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 8 →

Inspect

when the program is first set up, and whenever new hazards are introduced.

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 8 →

1 year

at least, that inspection and training records are kept.

Will not call the file in order with work left.

An imminent hazard or a late fix leads the list. An overdue scheduled inspection, an untrained person on a new hazard or assignment, an injury not investigated and an empty element of the program are each on it. The file says In order only when there are none.

How it works

Program, inspections, people, injuries

Write the program

The eight elements, started in plain text for you to make your own, and who is responsible.

Inspect and fix

The first, scheduled and hazard-driven inspections, each hazard with a fix-by date, marked fixed when it is.

Train and investigate

Training given by person and topic; every injury with when, why and what stops it again. Print the file.

What it will never do

It keeps the program. It inspects nothing.

Handrail records what you inspected, fixed and trained. Cal/OSHA judges it.

No inspector.You walk the floor; Handrail keeps what you found.

No reporting to Cal/OSHA.Nothing is sent anywhere.

It is not a lawyer.A citation goes to one. Handrail is the file you take with you.

It never touches a payment.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per business

Less than a single citation.

Most clubs

One business

$15/month

One California studio or club.

The written eight-element program
Inspections and fix-by dates
Training and injuries kept

One business, yearly

$150/year

The same, two months free.

Everything in One business
Printable file for the inspector
Export for your lawyer

Subscription. Your bank statement says Handrail Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

We have fewer than ten employees.

Lighter record rules apply. Handrail explains them and still keeps the program.

What counts as a new hazard?

New equipment, a new process, or one that comes to light. Each sets off an inspection and training for the roles it affects.

How fast must a hazard be fixed?

Imminent: now. Serious: seven days. Minor: thirty, or a date set by hand.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the program you wish you had written.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before the inspector does

The invented club’s stage-stair handrail is 19 days past its fix date and the scheduled inspection is ten days overdue. Two bartenders are untrained on a new fog machine, a server moved to the door with no training, a kitchen slip was never investigated, and the reporting element is empty.

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