The yearly training Minnesota requires, in plain English

By Sam Devine · October 27, 2026

Minnesota requires every cannabis or hemp worker and volunteer to be trained every year, on top of any other workplace training the law already requires. Here is what that training has to cover and what you need to keep.

Every worker, every year, fitted to the job

Two things stand out. Volunteers count, not just paid staff. And the training has to fit each person's role, so a budtender and a vault manager should not get identical training.

The six required subjects

The rule says the annual training must include:

1. Your own standard operating procedures.
2. State and applicable federal cannabis laws.
3. State and federal laws on data privacy and confidentiality.
4. How to properly use the security measures and controls your business has adopted.
5. What to do in an emergency, including a fire, loss of electrical power, robbery, natural disaster and workplace violence.
6. Product recall procedures.

Minn. R. 9810.1102, subp. 2(B)(1) to (6)

The first subject is your own procedures, not a generic course. Training that never mentions your procedures does not cover it.

Keep the records for three years

Worker and volunteer training records must be kept for three calendar years (Minn. R. 9810.1100, subp. 3(B)(1)). Like all your records, you must be able to hand them to the office within 24 hours of a request (Minn. R. 9810.1100, subp. 3(C)).

Related duties to your team

The same rule asks a few more things of you:

• Display emergency procedures on the premises, including evacuation and shelter-in-place procedures. (Minn. R. 9810.1102, subp. 3(B))
• Give each worker information about hazardous materials they may come into contact with, under federal and state Right to Know rules, and about how to safely handle and operate equipment and tools. (Minn. R. 9810.1102, subp. 3(C) and 3(D))
• Make sure anyone who needs an edible cannabinoid product handler endorsement has one. (Minn. R. 9810.1102, subp. 2(C))

A few good habits

These are not in the rule, but they make the rule easier to meet:

• Retrain when a procedure changes, not just once a year.
• Record who was trained, on what, on which date, and how they scored.
• Set renewal dates so nobody quietly lapses.

How Tofte helps

Tofte builds courses from your own approved procedures and the state's required subjects, assigns them to the right people, and scores each attempt. Certificates carry a number and an expiry date, cannot be edited or deleted, and stay on file after someone leaves. When one lapses, the training comes back around automatically.

This guide is a plain-English summary of Minnesota rules as of October 27, 2026. It is not legal advice. Rules change, so check the current text at the links below.

Sources

• Minn. R. 9810.1102, Cannabis and Hemp Workers
• Minn. R. 9810.1100, General Operations