Per-employee cannabis training, every course mapped to a phase in the GreenState six-phase pathway and a citation in 4 CCR Title 19. Assigned automatically. Tracked individually. Recertified on schedule.
No premises access without security training documented on the employee record. We close the gate on day one, before a badge is issued, before a key card is programmed, before the first shift starts.
This is the same view your floor lead, compliance officer, and budtenders see when they log in. Every course is keyed to a phase, carries a regulatory citation, and writes a completion record against the employee — not the org.
Pre-Access Gate · 30 min
Pre-Access Gate · 25 min
Onboarding · 45 min
Onboarding · 30 min
System Training · 60 min
System Training · 50 min
Operational · 40 min
Operational · 35 min
Compliance · 55 min
Compliance · 30 min
Recertification · 45 min
Recertification · 25 min
The six-phase model is canonical per ADR-001. Each phase carries a day window, a regulatory anchor, and a defined output: a completion record on the employee file. No phase skips, no phase merges, no phase lives in a binder.
Security awareness, facility access rules, badge discipline, restricted-area zones, theft and loss reporting basics. The licensee may not grant premises access until this phase is complete on the record. Required for every employee regardless of role — cultivator, packer, budtender, accountant who walks the floor once a quarter.
TRM-0010 (Security awareness for cannabis facilities) is the canonical anchor. Phase 1 is the only phase the law treats as a hard gate.
Limited-access areas. The DCC inspector asks for the certificate on the spot.
Universal employee handbook acknowledgment, workplace safety under the Cal/OSHA Injury and Illness Prevention Program, PPE acknowledgment, anti-harassment under Government Code §12950.1, emergency response and evacuation, workplace violence prevention under SB 553. Required for every employee, written acknowledgments retained on the employee file for seven years.
WVPP records on file, signed acknowledgments dated.
METRC track-and-trace usage, inventory flow, chain-of-custody discipline, error prevention, recordkeeping fundamentals, cannabis industry and regulatory basics. Errors in track-and-trace constitute direct violations — the volume 3 course library marks Phase 3 as “implied and enforceable.” Every employee with package, plant, or sale touchpoints completes this phase before independent work.
Track-and-trace accuracy. METRC drift over 0.5% triggers an inspection.
The pathway splits here. The Employee Pathway routes front-line execution — SOP walkthroughs, role-specific safety, role-specific recordkeeping. The Leadership Pathway routes supervisor duties — disciplinary process, incident response leadership, audit response, training oversight. The supervisor flag captured during Employee Onboarding is what determines the branch.
DCC-LIC-019 sub-procedures by license type.
Department-specific tracks: nursery, cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail, laboratory. Each track carries its own SOP set, equipment training, and regulatory modules — extraction safety for manufacturing, chain-of-custody for distribution, volatile-solvent handling for licensed labs, age-verification scripts and exit-packaging discipline for retail. Department captured during Employee Onboarding selects the track; a department change triggers reassignment.
Cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail, lab — each with its own subchapter.
Annual recerts on a fixed cadence, document-revision re-acks when an SOP is reissued, incident-flagged retraining when an investigation finds a training gap, regulation-update sweeps when CCR text changes. Phase 6 is the steady state after the first six weeks — the phase that catches everything the first five locked down on day one.
Recurring + event triggers stacked. Append-only versioning.
Most operators track training in a spreadsheet that gets updated on the day of the inspection, not the day of the training. The spreadsheet shows everyone is current. The DCC inspector asks for the underlying certificate, by employee, by date, with the timestamp it was issued and the score on the assessment. The spreadsheet does not have that.
The platform writes append-only completion records against the employee record, issues a dated certificate at the moment of completion, and tracks the recert window automatically. When the inspector asks “who was trained on the new SOP and when?” the answer is one screen, exportable to PDF in thirty seconds, with citation references intact.
Each scenario shows the workflow as it actually fires — the assignment, the timestamps, the outputs. No abstractions.
Pre-Access Gate assigned automatically on hire. Security awareness module completes by 11 AM. Certificate issued, badge cleared by floor lead.
Initial Onboarding queues IIPP, anti-harassment, SB 553 workplace violence prevention. Acknowledgments signed, dated, retained.
System Training assigns POS, METRC sales receipt workflow, age-verification ID standards, daily-limit enforcement, SB 540 brochure delivery script.
Compliance Integration queues the retail department track — exit packaging, refusal-of-sale scripts, customer consultation discipline.
Pathway complete. Employee record shows a six-stage chain of certificates ready for any inspector who asks.
Phase 6 scheduler fires the recert window. The compliance officer receives an email and a portal alert. Manager dashboard shows the pending recert.
Annual Compliance Recertification course assigned with a thirty-day completion window. Calendar event created on the operator's compliance calendar.
Reminder fires if not yet started. Manager-level alert escalates if the window closes within seven days.
Completion certificate issued. Prior version remains on the record, append-only. Next recert auto-scheduled for one year out.
Inspector arrives unannounced. Compliance officer logs into the portal at the front desk.
Employee record opened. Training tab shows every assigned, completed, and pending course with timestamps and citation codes.
Export to PDF. The packet includes every certificate, every acknowledgment, every score, and the regulatory citation that anchors each module.
Inspector hands back the iPad. The premises remains in compliance posture. Total elapsed: less than a minute.
Phases 1 through 3 are universal. Phase 4 splits on the supervisor flag captured during Employee Onboarding. Phases 5 and 6 reconverge but carry department-specific and role-specific module sets.
The branch is not optional. A budtender pushed into supervisor duties without the leadership track is a citation waiting for the next inspection.
Not a single canned course. The library is segmented so the right module routes to the right employee, and only the right employee.
Security awareness for cannabis facilities, IIPP under Cal/OSHA, anti-harassment under Government Code §12950.1, workplace violence prevention under SB 553, emergency response and evacuation, PPE acknowledgment. Required on every employee in every department.
METRC track-and-trace mechanics, package and tag discipline, manifest and chain-of-custody procedures, packaging and labeling rules including the universal symbol and government warning, recordkeeping under §15037 with seven-year retention, premises diagram literacy.
Budtender curriculum — ID verification, daily purchase limits, refusal-of-sale scripts, SB 540 brochure delivery, harm-reduction conversations. Compliance officer curriculum — internal audit cadence, METRC reconciliation, agency interaction script, recall workflow. Manufacturing lead and DRP curricula on dedicated tracks.
Cultivation — pesticide handling, generator rules under CARB, water permits under SWRCB. Manufacturing — closed-loop extraction, GMP, batch records. Distribution — representative sampling, manifest discipline. Retail — age verification, exit packaging. Laboratory — ISO 17025 controls, COA workflow. Nursery — immature lot recordkeeping.
The annual cadence runs in the background. The platform watches the clock, the regulation feed, the document control system, and the incident log — and queues a recert when any one of them moves. Append-only versioning means the prior certificate stays readable on the employee record forever, even after a new version supersedes it. The audit trail is the entire history, not the latest snapshot.
One employee can sit on multiple recert clocks at once. The scheduler de-duplicates, sequences, and assigns — the operator does not maintain a calendar.
Training that lives in a spreadsheet is training that fails the inspection.
Per-seat pricing keeps the program honest — you pay for the employees you actually train, the recerts that actually fire, the certificates that actually issue. No tiered minimums. No bundled SKUs you do not use.
Walk through the catalog with a regulatory specialist, or book a working session that maps your current headcount to the six-phase pathway and surfaces your existing training debt.
