Drinking After the Holidays

Everyone enjoys a few drinks during the holidays, but it is after the holidays such behavior should be shut up and put away for the next festivities, whenever they may be. There is a time for work, and a time for play.

Employees who often engage in substance abuse find themselves mixing the two as much as possible. The mentality of substance abuse is that they cannot emotionally handle going to work and engaging in work for the majority of the day. At that point, they attempt to incorporate rest or play, and if such behavior is not tolerated on the jobsite, they may resort to drinking or getting high before they leave or even before arriving to work. This circumstance can be really taxing both on them and on their coworkers and employers. The result is that these employees are often fired in the first place, just for being incompetent.

The responsible worker can easily from play to work and back again, but can easily keep the two things separate. Without this type of employees, your workers are unable to tell the difference between professional and inappropriate behavior, and between “busy work” and actual relevant productivity. Workplace drug testing gives you insight into how this process can occur in anyone. Your favorite, most respected, most loved employee can fall off the wagon and begin drinking again. Your best manager can take up crack cocaine. If you do not know what is going on behind the scenes, you can place false hope in someone who will soon not be as competent as you would wish. Drug screening takes away this doubt. Alcohol testing gives you information that you can actually trust. We are all gullible when we play favorite, but drug and alcohol testing plays no favorites, nor does it express an opinion. It simply delivers the facts, just as they are. This is a noteworthy goal, and this has such an impact on business today.

So, when you are planning for post holiday production, remember to use onsite drug and alcohol screening for your employees’ sake.

This article has been taken from http://mediscreen.net.au/articles/?p=2023