As an employer you want to be certain your employees are staying focused. Periodically you may want to check for drug use. Your company image and safety of other employees is a very real responsibility.
Are you confused by all the choices available to test your employees for drug abuse? While urine drug testing has been the standard for years, now there are many other methods available — such as hair, oral fluid and the new instant oral fluid drug tests? Would one of these better fit your company's needs?
Drug Testing Facts
The best way to pass a drug test is to not use drugs. The other way
depends on what you use and how often.
Options for Testing Your Child for Drug Use
Are you concerned that your son, daughter, or other family member is
taking illegal drugs?
Testing for Drug Use
Using Hair Samples
Small or trace amounts of everything we ingest is stored in our hair
making it an accurate log of our daily habits.
Crystal Meth Abuse
A common street drug cooked in clandestine labs, crystal meth is
poisonous to the body and highly addictive.
A drug testing program can sometimes help a company in the following areas:
- Help foster a more positive employee attitude while working
- A better overall team effort applied by employees
- Increase in production of employee output
- Increase in profit margin
- Decrease in employee tardiness
- Decrease in injuries
- Decrease in employee absenteeism
- Decrease in employee theft
These issues alone are worth the consideration of initiating a substance abuse workplace program. You will need to customize each drug testing program for your type of business. An employer should educate and train employers on the effects of drug abuse, providing informational materials related to the causes and effects of substance abuse and more for your program to be completely successful.
A lot of companies that sell drug testing kits or
programs can help you set this up. So before you buy a program for your
company, call and talk with the company that is selling the program. The
benefits you could gain with an investment in a drug free workplace
program could be phenomenal.
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