Employment: training requirements: opioid overdose reversals.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on enforcement penalties or who pays for the training modules.

Training Requirements for Opioid Overdose Reversal

The bill requires employers who require CPR certification to also provide online training on using naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses.

What This Bill Does

• Requires employers who need employees to have CPR certification to also make sure those employees take an online video course about how to use naloxone for reversing opioid overdoses.
• Gives the Emergency Medical Services Authority responsibility to review and approve these training videos to ensure they meet certain standards.

Who It Names or Affects

• Employers who require CPR certification for their employees
• Employees of those employers who will need to take the online training

Terms To Know

naloxone

A medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose.

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Act, which sets rules for workplace safety in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if employers do not follow the new training requirements.
• It is unclear how many employers currently require CPR certification and will be affected by this change.
• There are no details on who pays for the online video training modules.

Official Summary Text

AB 2150, as amended, Haney.
Employment: training requirements: opioid overdose reversals.
Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority and requires the authority to coordinate state activities concerning emergency medical services.
Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, and the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA), requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act.
Under OSHA, certain violations of the act are punishable as a crime.
Exiting law requires the division, before December 1, 2027, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise specified regulations on first aid materials and emergency medical services to require first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid antagonist. Existing law requires the standards board to consider for adoption revised standards for the standards described above on or before December 1, 2028.
This bill would require an employer operating in this state that requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification training of its employees to also require those employees to take an online video module training on the use of naloxone to increase the rate of opioid overdose reversals, as prescribed. The bill would require the Emergency Medical
Services Authority to
oversee the training curriculum required pursuant to these provisions.
review and approve the online video module trainings to ensure the training content meets certain minimum standards. The bill would require the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to enforce these provisions in accordance with the division’s existing authority under OSHA. By expanding the scope of a crime under OSHA, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Current Bill Text

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