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Workplace Drug Testing:
An Employer's Development & Implementation Guide
Drug-testing programs can be implemented
the "right" way or the "wrong" way. The "wrong" way can cost a company
money, create morale problems, and leave the company legally vulnerable.
This publication helps employers without drug-testing programs implement
the "right" program. It also helps employers with existing drug-testing
programs to perform self-audits and make necessary and appropriate
adjustments.
The ultimate "how to" book for human
resources professionals, legal counsel, and anyone with drug-abuse
prevention responsibilities, Workplace
Drug Testing: An Employer's Development & Implementation Guide
provides employers with a "blueprint" for achieving legally sound
and effective drug-testing programs.
This book addresses the "nuts and
bolts" of drug-testing programs, including:
- The Basis for Drug Testing
- Employee Perspectives on Drug
Testing
- Job-Applicant Drug Testing
- 14 Options for Employee Drug Testing
- Substances of Abuse
- Testing Methodologies and Procedures
- Timing for Program Implementation
- The Need for Confidentiality
- An Initial Steps Checklist
- Employee Questions and Answers
- Exposing Drug-Testing Myths
- Complying with the Americans with
Disabilities Act
- 30 Steps to Minimizing Legal Vulnerability
It includes helpful checklists, a glossary
of drug-testing terms, appendices on common questions and answers,
specimen collection procedures, a listing of HHS-certified laboratories,
and MRO response procedures.
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Does Drug Testing
Work?
Drug testing in the workplace is not
only cost-effective, it is a successful deterrent to the harmful and
sometimes tragic impact of substance abuse. Does
Drug Testing Work? is a compilation, summary, and
analysis of the major research defining the extent and magnitude of
the workplace substance-abuse problem, the deterrent effect of drug
testing on workplace drug abuse, and the range and effectiveness of
employer responses as presented in corporate case studies.
Well-researched and clearly presented,
this book helps employers answer questions and improve their responsiveness
to challenges regarding the basis of their drug-abuse prevention
programs. This book also is useful for legal counsel, employee assistance
administrators, diagnostic laboratories, and substance-abuse treatment
and education professionals.
Included are summaries and analyses
of more than 60 major research reports, studies, and surveys, divided
into seven sections, addressing:
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the
United States
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the
Workplace
- The Impact of Substance Abuse
on Job Performance
- The Prevalence of Drug-Testing
Programs
- The Frequency of "Positive" Drug
Tests
- Employee Attitudes Toward Drug
Testing
- Major Workplace Studies
Drug Testing —
There are reasons to do it. It works!
Summaries of 39 corporate case studies
also document the very tangible results of employee drug-testing programs,
and the quantifiable benefits of their success.
Also included is a discussion of
the steps to achieve accuracy and reliability in drug testing, and
an appendix on dispelling drug-testing myths.
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Avoiding Legal Liability:
The 25 Most
Common Employer Mistakes in Addressing Drug Abuse
You may get the credit for
things that go right... but you definitely get the blame
when things go wrong.
What does "wrong" mean in regard
to workplace drug testing and drug-abuse prevention programs? This
book answers that question conclusively.
Avoiding
Legal Liability examines
the most common mistakes employers make in addressing substance
abuse in the workplace. This booklet is essential to the employer
because substance-abuse prevention and drug- and alcohol- testing
programs involve the risk of substantial legal liability when conducted
improperly or in violation of federal, state, or local laws.
Examines Such
Mistakes as:
- Enforcing a company policy inconsistently
- Implementing a "fitness-for-duty"
policy
- Reporting drug-test results widely
- Acting on only one drug-test result
- Addressing drug abuse without
a parallel program for alcohol abuse
- Concentrating on any one class
of employees
- Sending impaired employees home
behind the steering wheel of a car
- Over-relying on "for-cause" testing
Protect Your Company
Protect Yourself
Save Time and Money
Avoiding Legal
Liability can save your
company tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and costs. A small
investment can save your company a lot of time, money, and hardship,
and leave your program much, much less legally vulnerable. If you
make even one change in your company's program or policy as a result
of this book, your investment was much more than worthwhile.
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