The WORK to Save Lives Act directs the Department of Labor to create guidance and rules aimed at addressing opioid overdoses in workplaces. Within 270 days of becoming law, the Labor Department must issue non-mandatory guidance to private employers on acquiring overdose reversal medication (like naloxone) and providing voluntary annual training to employees on how to use it. At the same time, the bill requires the Labor Department to issue mandatory regulations that obligate all federal agencies—including the Veterans Health Administration—to actually stock overdose reversal medication and offer employees the same voluntary annual training. The legislation essentially creates a two-track approach: encouraging private employers to prepare for overdose emergencies while requiring federal agencies to do so. No specific funding amount is mentioned in the bill.
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