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Drug testing of employees is a relatively new tool used in the last 20 years for evaluating candidates for employment and to promote safety in the workplace. However, there have been questions about the return on investment for drug testing leading some companies not to implement a drug testing program. Since there has not [...]
The Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) funded a project to obtain the current opinions of human resource professionals about drug testing. Human resource professionals were asked about their organizations’ drug testing programs and reported that high absenteeism rates (more than 15%) before implementing a drug testing program dropped from 9% to 4% after [...]
It is no surprise that drug abuse in the workplace decreases an employee’s productivity. It could cost an organization thousands of wasted dollars each payroll to fully compensate workers who are not operating at expected capacity. The Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) funded a project to obtain the current opinions of human [...]
Employers are now becoming increasingly concerned about illicit drug use and safety in the workplace. Hence, drug testing of employees is a relatively new tool used in the last 20 years for evaluating candidates for employment. Drug abuse, besides being illegal, is costly in many ways – from lost productivity, frequent accidents, absenteeism and replacing [...]
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in cooperation with and commissioned by the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) conducted a study to obtain the current opinions of human resources professionals about drug testing. The study revealed that companies with high workers’ compensation incidence rates (more than 6%) reported a drop from 14% [...]
Drug addiction is a chronic brain disease that makes a person seek and use the drug of choice even if it destroys that person’s entire life. The drugs eventually alter the brain such that the person afflicted with the disease is no longer able to resist the impulse to take them. What to do? Send [...]
Drinking alcohol and misusing drugs can bring detrimental effects to an individual’s job performance. However, many people still drink alcohol and take drugs for a variety of reasons. Some drink occasionally to socialize, to feel ease, to get drunk and forget problems. Some simply drink because everybody does it. At some point, people take drugs [...]
Hair follicle drug test is one of the common and easiest methods used in the workplace to screen drug use by employees. It can effectively detect drug metabolites in the person’s body and is preferred by some employers because of its longer detection window. Hair drug testing requires 40-50 strands of hair that are cut [...]
The government also plays a significant role in helping people pursue a drug- free environment. In the United States, there about 20 million people who work in the government and most of them are assigned in some organizations that help combat the rampant issue of drug abuse among teens and adults. Government organizations on drug [...]
It was in 1991 when the United States Department of Transportation launched the act known as Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing. This is an act that requires alcohol testing as well as drug testing for transportation employees. The list includes industries such as aviation, railroads, trucking, pipelines and mass transit. In this regard, the DOT is [...]
