Drug Testing Is Extremely Important After a National Crisis! Question: Do you consider employee productivity, workplace safety, and profitability to be important factors in your business? I am sure you answered yes to all three. One thing that all of these components have in common is that they all are compromised when one or more employees are engaging in drug use, whether at home or in the workplace.
The recent pandemic has pushed some recreational drug users into more serious and harmful substance use. Professor Adam Winstock, the founder of Global Drug Survey states: “For some casual users of cannabis or cocaine, the lockdown will probably prove to be a mental health crisis point that leads them to take drugs more frequently. Some drug users could also switch to using different and possibly harder drugs, increasing the risk of dependency, overdose, and other harms.
It is imperative for employers to consider doing pre-employment, random, post-accident and suspicion drug testing to
- Minimize the chance of hiring an employee who may be a drug user
- Reduce workplace accidents and improve safety
- Reduce absenteeism, tardiness, sick leave, and personal time off
- Identify current users and refer them for assistance
- To discourage “recreational” drug use that could lead to addiction
- Reduce employee discipline problems
- Reduce workers’ compensation costs
- Increase productivity
- Improve employee morale and motivation
- Improve your company’s community image
One of 6 workers has an addiction problem! When you consider the statistics, it’s very likely that your company has one or more employees using drugs. It is highly recommended that employers plan on performing random & suspicion drug testing after a pandemic or an extended leave from work.
By Annmarie Dallao,
Co-Owner of ARCpoint Labs of Reading
