Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 759, Sec. 2. (AB 1775) Effective January 1, 2023.
For purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:
(a)“Auxiliary organization” means an entity that is included as an auxiliary organization pursuant to Section 89901 of the Education Code.
(b)“Contract” means an existing event and reservation agreement between a contracting entity and an entertainment events vendor to set up, operate, or tear down a live event at a public events venue.
(c)“Contracting entity” means a body that contracts with an entertainment events vendor to set up, operate, or tear down a live event at a public events venue.
(d)“Division” means the Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
(e)“Entertainment events vendor” means a private
employer that contracts to set up, operate, or tear down a live event and includes any subcontractor employer involved in the event’s setting up, operation, or tearing down.
(f)“Entertainment Services and Technology Association” means the nonprofit trade association based in North America for the entertainment technology industry that develops standards for entertainment crafts through an accredited American National Standards Institute technical standards program.
(g)“Entertainment Technician Certification Program” means the industry and labor nongovernmental program of the Entertainment Services and Technology Association that grants certification to a worker who has demonstrated mastery as an entertainment technician.
(h)“Heads of departments” and “leads” means any worker that leads, supervises, or directs one or more workers in that same occupation and is employed in an occupation that may be certified by the Entertainment Technician Certification Program.
(i)“Cal/OSHA-10” means a 10-hour course offered by a training provider that is authorized by an OSHA Training Institute Education Center to provide the course.
(j)“OSHA-10” means the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 10-hour course on workplace health and safety.
(k)“OSHA-10/General Entertainment Safety” means the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health
Administration’s 10-hour course on workplace health and safety specific to the entertainment and exhibition industries.
(l)“Cal/OSHA-30” means a 30-hour course offered by a training provider that is authorized by an OSHA Training Institute Education Center to provide the course.
(m)“OSHA-30” means the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 30-hour course on workplace health and safety.
(n)“OSHA-30/General Entertainment Safety” means the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 30-hour course on workplace health and safety specific to the entertainment and exhibition industries.
(o)“Public events venue” means a state-operated fairground, county fairground, state park, California State
University, University of California, or auxiliary organization-run facility that hosts live events.
(p)“Operate” means to operate effects on an event set, including, but not limited to, lighting, sound, pyrotechnics, machinery, electrical apparatus, scenery, audiovisual, or rigging.
(q)“Skilled and trained workforce” has the same meaning as
defined in Section 2601 of the Public Contract Code.