Some workplaces in Ontario are now required to carry a kit used to temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
As of today, workplace safety legislation mandates what the government has called “high-risk” workplaces to have a naloxone kit available.
Get weekly health news
Employers must have naloxone and training if they become aware that a worker could overdose on opioids, that they could overdose while on the job, and that the risk is posed by a person working directly for the employer.
If only one of the conditions apply, the employer is not mandated to have a kit.
- Manitobans brace for dark mornings, lighter evenings after time change nixed
- 2 sudden deaths prompt public safety warning from Halifax police
- MP calls on New Brunswick to reject proposed AI data centre in open letter to premier
- Uncertainty hangs over Nackawic after pulp mill announces temporary shutdown
-
![]()
Carney says he will sign no new deals with EU until Canada’s Parliament can vote on them -
![]()
Conservative MP Larry Brock resigns, leaving another vacancy in Poilievre’s caucus -
![]()
Feds announce $250 million to expand training capacity for skilled trades within the CAF -
![]()
Carney says US ‘offered too little,’ ‘asked too much’ in trade talks
Workplaces required to comply are eligible for a free naloxone kit and training for up to two workers.
The province says about 30 per cent of workers who died from opioids from March 2020 to January 2021 were employed in the construction industry.
Comments
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.