Workplace Overdose Safety Training
Overdose can happen anywhere, including at work. The Robin Foundation provides practical workplace training that helps employees, managers, and safety teams understand overdose risks, recognize warning signs, and know what to do when an emergency occurs.
Why Workplace Preparedness Matters
Overdose is not only a public-health issue. It can also become a workplace emergency. Employees may be affected directly, may have a coworker or family member at risk, or may encounter an overdose while at work. In some industries, factors such as physically demanding work, injury, chronic pain, stress, and job instability can add to substance-related risks. For employers, the focus should not be on identifying who might be at risk. It should be on making sure employees know how to recognize an overdose, respond appropriately, and get emergency help quickly.
A prepared workplace gives people the knowledge to act when every minute matters.
What Your Team Will Learn
Recognize an Overdose
Respond in an Emergency
Understand Today's Overdose Risk
Improve Workplace Preparedness
Reduce Stigma
Know Your Role
Built for Real Workplaces
They serve as a student leader within the Nova Southeastern University chapter of The Robin Foundation. Through collaborative outreach efforts and student engagement, They help advance the chapter’s mission to create a safer, better-informed campus community.
Construction
Construction and extraction workers have been identified in CDC/NIOSH research as experiencing elevated overdose mortality. Training can help contractors, supervisors, safety teams, and workers strengthen emergency preparedness.
Hospitality
Hotels, restaurants, food-service operations, venues, and hospitality teams interact with employees and members of the public every day. Preparing staff to recognize and respond to an overdose can become part of a broader workplace and guest-safety strategy.
Other Workplaces
Training is also available for businesses, nonprofit organizations, schools, community organizations, safety teams, and employers looking to strengthen overdose preparedness.
Bring Overdose Safety Training to Your Workplace
Whether you are responsible for a construction crew, hospitality team, corporate workplace, or community organization, preparedness starts before an emergency occurs.