Risks Of Not Testing

Consider for a moment a variety of scenarios in which a substance abuser might affect your workplace:

• Do certain employees perform key functions of the organization?
• Brokers handling large sums of money
• Technicians monitoring essential equipment such as computers, nuclear power dials, etc.
• Salespersons representing the company
• Do you have employees in positions where alcohol or other drug abuse would be difficult to detect?
• Employees who work at home
• Traveling salespersons
• Home health care workers
• Do you have employees in "safety sensitive" jobs?
• Driving vehicles
• Operating machinery
• Managing a place of public entry such as a security checkpoint
• Do you have employees in "security sensitive" jobs?
• Responsible for inventory or stock
• Responsible for ideas, products, plans, and proprietary material
• Responsible for financial accounting or cash
• Responsible for confidential documents
• Then ask: Can you afford to lose a valuable employee who is in trouble?
• Will loss of the employee affect this year's productivity and bottom line?
• How much will it cost to recruit, hire, and train someone new?
• What do you predict would happen to production and client satisfaction if an alcohol or other drug abuse problem goes unresolved?
• For some employers, one accident, one major financial problem, or one breach of confidentiality can place the entire operation in jeopardy. If someone in your workforce is not fit to perform his or her job because of alcohol or other drug abuse, the risk may be significant.

What Are the Benefits?
Drug-free workplace programs can have both short- and long-term benefits. Employers who have already started drug-free workplace programs report significant benefits:

Short-Term Benefits:

• Cost savings and incentive programs offered by Medical and health insurance carriers
• Property, casualty, and liability insurance carriers
• Workers' Compensation insurance carriers
• Less chance that a current user/abuser will apply for a job or be hired
• Ability to respond quickly when problems with alcohol or other drug abuse arise
• Fewer accidents
• Fewer disciplinary actions
• Reduced losses due to absenteeism, theft, and fraud

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• Improved employee morale and productivity
• Lower costs due to losses and errors
• Reduced costs of insurance claims
• Greater employee awareness about alcohol and other drug abuse as well as other health issues
• Earlier identification and resolution of problems affecting job performance
• Decreased legal costs and costs of hiring and training new employees
• The Costs of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

Workers who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol:

Increase accidents - 3.6 times more likely to injure themselves or another person in a workplace accident. 5 times more likely to be injured in an accident off the job which in turn affects attendance and performance on the job.

Increase medical claims - 5 times more likely to file a worker's compensation claim.

Increase absenteeism - 2.5 times more likely to have absences of eight days or more.

Excessive tardiness - returning from lunch or on Monday mornings.

Increase product defects - are more likely to have difficulty concentrating, more difficulty recalling instructions, more difficulty with complex assignments.

Increase insurance costs

Increase employee theft

Decrease productivity

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