Show your support: NSC seeks hearing on opioid reversal medications in the workplace
The National Safety Council recently worked with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to introduce the Workplace Overdose Reversal Kits (WORK) to Save Lives Act (H.R. 5420/S. 2948). This legislation would require federal buildings to stock opioid overdose reversal medications and train federal workers on its use. It also would direct OSHA to create nonmandatory guidance for private employers on how to obtain these medications and train their employees on its use.
Now, NSC is calling on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the House Education and Workforce Committee to conduct a hearing on this important legislation.
Will your organization join the call? Add your name – by Dec. 1 – to a letter requesting the hearing. If your organization is not willing to sign on, consider adding your name in your personal capacity.
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