Yesterday, we addressed workplace substance abuse statistics and the effects of employees working under the influence. Today, we focus on what you can do to eliminate substance abuse from your workplace.
Workplace substance abuse is not only a large and costly problem, it’s also an issue covered by an important federal law, the Drug-Free Workplace Act, enacted to help combat the problem.
The Act requires companies that are federal contactors or grantees to have—and to distribute to all employees—a written policy explaining the rules against substance abuse in the workplace.
The law also requires an organization to have a substance abuse awareness program to warn employees about the dangers of drug and alcohol use, particularly at work.
Even if you’re not covered by this law (or a state law mandating such a program), you should still have a well-publicized substance abuse policy and create an awareness program for your workers.
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Policy and Program Specifics
An employee education program will be most effective if it doesn’t sound like a "top down" mandate from management. It should involve upper- and lower-level management as well as employees.
Some of the issues to consider when drafting a workplace substance abuse plan and explaining it to your employees include:
- Prohibition of the possession, use, or sale of drugs or alcohol on company premises
- Prohibition of working under the influence of drugs or alcohol
- Availability of assistance for employees who want help for an abuse problem
- Discipline for those who refuse help and continue to violate the company’s substance abuse policy
And, of course, safety meetings about the dangers—both personal and on-the-job—of substance abuse are a must. That’s where our Safety Meeting Repros can be a huge help. Read on.
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Whether you’re training employees about the safety and health hazards of substance abuse or training on a whole range of other vital workplace safety and health topics, you have a friend in BLR. We can make training easy for you—and inexpensive.
Our Safety Meeting Repros provides you with 50 completely turnkey safety meeting modules, each responsive to a key OSHA regulation, with trainee materials in reproducible form—all for under $6 a session!
A supervisor on any shift can easily run the training session. All the trainer has to do is check off the outline items as he or she proceeds through the meeting, and trainees won’t miss a single point of importance. Then the trainer can follow up with the fully prepared quiz (with instantly available answers) and illustrated handouts that also come with each lesson.
Presto! You’ve completed a full training cycle, with little more work than running a copier, at a cost equivalent of under $6 a session.
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