The Benefits of Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing

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The Benefits of Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing
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Drug and Alcohol Use and Misuse at Work Risk
The Company's Reputation
Drug and Alcohol use and misuse at work has
significant safety threats to a company's
employees, customers and reputation. They are
notoriously difficult to manage once it becomes
evident or are implied unless companies have
strategies in place from the outset.

• The use of illicit and prescription drug use
  within work places is rising.
• This is causing concern amongst the business
  community and government departments.
• Organisations which have business critical
  and safety critical roles need to have  a variety
  of strategies in place to manage these risks.
• One such effective strategy is to have an
  established work place Drug and Alcohol Testing
  process.

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THE BENEFITS OF WORKPLACE DRUG AND ALCOHOL
TESTING INCLUDE

• Establishes a clear, on-going and ambiguous
  company message that substance misuse is
  unacceptable
• Acts as a deterrent against substance misuse at
  work
• Acts to ensure employees confirm their
  prescription medications can be safely
  used whilst at work
• Rapidly answers questions related to suspicions
  of substance misuse at work
• Helps to answer whether short term, short notice
  sick leave relates to substance misuse
• Gives confidence to managers/ HR that employees
  returning to work are being appropriately and
  safely monitored
• Protects the company reputation and mitigates
  against accusations of substance misuse
  in relation to safely critical work and incidents

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Solutions
Independent review of results The results of any
Drug and or Alcohol test should be reviewed by a
MRO ( Medical Review Officer)  to check to see if
there is another reasonable explanation for the
results.  We offer this service in conjunction
with or separate to our testing
capabilities. More information about the MRO
review process can be accessed here
Testing Testing can be done rapidly on site via
POCT ( Point of Care Testing)  and  sent for
verification at approved laboratories  without
delays
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When testing is needed
Testing as part of your HR Drug and Alcohol
process is usually  done for the following
scenarios

• 1) Pre-employment - To ensure steps are taken in
  not hiring those taking , using, abusing illicit
  or psychoactive substances
• 2) Post Incident/ accident - To see whether
  psychoactive substances were involved in an
  incident/ accident
• 3) On suspicion of substance use/misuse- To
  answer whether someone's change in behaviour,
  aggression or the smell of alcohol in their
  breath related to psychoactive substance use. 
• 4) Randomly- To ensure compliance to the Drug and
  Alcohol policy and to act as a deterrent against
  illicit use. 
• 5) Return to work/ Post rehabilitation- To ensure
  employees maintain their abstinence after
  returning to work.

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