Employer Balancing Act: Australians Smoke & Drink Less but

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Roy Morgan Research found during a study that 3 out of 5 Australians are now over eight or obese, despite smoking less and reducing alcohol consumption. What’s an employer to do? Sometimes it seems like it is impossible to win at times. One thing improves, and the situation gets worse in another area. It can be difficult to interpret the mixed signals that statistics deliver, but the message is clear that workplace drug and alcohol education should be integrated with wellness programs.

The Chief Executive of Roy Morgan, Michele Levine, explained the study conducted on the status of the nation’s healthy. The study found that less alcohol is being consumed (good news), the number of people smoking has declined (good news), but more Australians are overweight (bad news) and experiencing anxiety (bad news). The three out of five Australians who are overweight with a body mass index of over 25 are more likely to suffer health effects like high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes.

Health AND Safety Go Hand-in-Han

Maintaining a safe workplace is an excellent principle, but it requires the ability to balance all the factors that influence health and safety. Drugs and alcohol in the workplace are dangerous for many obvious reasons. For example, approximately 10 percent of workplace deaths and 20-25 percent of workplace accidents are related to drug and alcohol use. However, drugs and alcohol also increase the chances of one worker verbally or physically abusing one or more coworkers. General statistics show that 1 in 4 Australian employees have been verbally abused by an alcohol user, and 1 out of 50 have been physically abused by someone using illicit drugs.

Drug and alcohol users and smokers are more likely to experience medical problems and call in sick. They drive up health care costs which directly impacts the employer. When people are overweight, some of the same issues are at play. People who are overweight are more likely to take sick days or develop expensive health conditions or get fatigued easier. They tend to have less flexibility, which can impact their ability to do their job. It was estimated that the 2010 cost to Australia associated with people being overweight and obese was $21 billion, a number likely to have grown by now.

Fit For Duty Includes Fitness

What is an employer to do to balance all the factors that go into a safe workplace? Testing for drugs and alcohol is one strategy for maintaining a healthy and safe workplace. But being overweight and developing associated problems like high blood pressure and lack of flexibility impact worker safety too. Fit for work is influenced by multiple factors that includes drug/alcohol use, physical fitness, emotional distress, and fatigue.

Mediscreen can help employees better understand the consequences of lifestyle choices by providing them with health snapshots of their health status in critical areas like blood pressure, cholesterol level, lung airflow, and BMI. A wellness program coupled with a random drug and alcohol testing program gives employers the assurance they are going the extra step to maintain safe and more productive workplaces.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/employer-balancing-act-australians-smoke-drink-less-but/

Buried Too Deep to be Found

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We all think that our secrets are buried too deep to be found. We all think that no one could possibly know how we feel, and that we are alone in our secrets, alone in our thoughts.

The truth is that all of us have felt, in one way or another, many of the same things. Not everything, granted, but many of the same things. We have all felt loss, in different ways, and we have all felt love and heart break, in different ways. But, some secrets or parts of ourselves are kept hidden for what we believe are very good reasons. The truth is, though, that without some way to vent these secrets, it’s hard to keep them inside. It is a bit like stagnation in the physical world. It is just too much for one person to keep inside.

Many of us have memories or situations which we keep buried pretty deep because we either do not want to deal with them or we have not yet grown enough on the inside to deal with them just yet.

Whatever the situation, most if not all of your employees carry secrets with them, things which they each keep buried pretty deep. This can eventually eat away at them until they feel that they must resort to drugs or alcohol to deaden the pain. As long as they are doing this off the jobsite, then you don’t have to worry about it. But the second that they bring illicit substances into the workplace or they show up in an unfit state to work themselves, they are putting themselves and everyone else in danger.

You must protect your assets, and Mediscreen is just the business to business company to help you do that. We provide specialized AS4308 and AS4760 NATA accredited drug and alcohol testing services to businesses all over Australia, no matter where they may be located. For your convenience, our mobile drug testing and alcohol testing services come to your jobsite, and this is good for you, so that your company does not have to pay for your employees to travel a great distance just to find the nearest laboratory.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/buried-too-deep-to-be-found/

Putting Blood Into Your Land

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Throughout Australia, the United States, South America, and even into Africa, there are legends concerning mosquitos and land. The blood suckers are quite prevalent at certain times of the year, and they are even more prevalent in certain types of weather. However, some people are bothered by them, or attacked by them, more than others.

The common element among all of the legends is that if you do not put your own blood into the land (through insanely hard work and continuous perseverance), your blood will be drawn by the mosquitos as payment. In other words, you can either make the payment of blood through hard work, or you can be forced to make the payment to the land in your blood by the mosquitos.

Now, all of these legends are different, but they have the above statements in common, which means that this is an archetypal knowledge which will continue to permeate throughout the cultures which understand this truth.

Even the Bible talks about how a man must prepare the land he owns before he prepares the home.

The land takes precedence.

In business, the people take precedence. Without your people, you will not have the kind of teams or the kinds of work goals you need in order to make an appropriate decision or effectively execute your own plans. Without your people, your business does not retain the kind of quality it needs in order to be known far and wide as an effective company. And without drug and alcohol screening, your business would not have the appropriate steps in place to protect your people.

So, you need a good onsite drug and alcohol screening company, and for this, you have Mediscreen. We put energy and time into your company by bringing you onsite AOD testing, along with NATA accreditation to AS 4308, to every jobsite in your business, no matter where they are all located in Australia. This is perfect for out-of-the-way places which do not have regular transfers between worksite and neighboring cities. This way, your can still implement regular employee screening, without going to the trouble of transporting them, waiting on them to finish in the laboratory, and then transporting them back. That costs both time and money, and Mediscreen saves you all of that. 

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/putting-blood-into-your-land/

Whose Life are You Living, Anyway?

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We all like to think that we are living the lives which we chose for ourselves. But, the truth be told, we are living lives which have been chosen for us by many people, including ourselves. We are living lives of quiet desperation, inner turmoil, rising guilt, happiness, peace, joy, and a myriad of other emotions. You may think that you are living your life, but unless you choose each and every moment of the life you now live, you are probably allowing yourself to be swept along in one direction or another by various factors.

Whose life are you living, anyway? Is it yours?

In business, we like to think that we have total control over all situations and that we are the ones in charge. However, that is not necessarily the case. In fact, if there is one thing which we cannot control, and which has been proven time and time again that we cannot control, that is other people.

So, therefore, while systems may run your business, the truth is that you yourself do not. You may have been wise enough to set intelligent systems into place to form and retain the kind of business you desire, but it is not all you. You are not controlling every choice that every employee makes throughout your company. Therefore, if you would like some sort of assurance that your employees are obeying your orders, there are limited resources available to test this. However, you will always have drug testing.

Employee drug testing will always be necessary, and you will always find out a great deal through the use of it. You can regularly schedule onsite drug and alcohol screening through Mediscreen, an onsite drug testing company which is NATA accredited for medical testing. We believe in you running your business the way that you want to run it. We are here to help you make that happen by giving you the data you need about your employees to make important decisions. You have the options of drug testing and alcohol screening, as well as having the options in equipment from our sister company, CMM Technology. In addition to that, Mediscreen has stellar customer service.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/whose-life-are-you-living-anyway/

Warm and Snuggly

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You know how nice it is to be all wrapped up in your comforter, blankets, sheets, and body heat in the morning. You know how nice it is to wake up to that delicious warm and snuggly feeling of total safety, total comfort, and total serenity.

Of course, we all have to get out of bed and go to work, then. But, after a while, we find it so tempting to simply lie down and remember the feeling we have when we first wake up.

When someone does drugs or becomes an alcoholic, they are attempting to recreate that feeling. The thing is, stressful things occur all around them and easily pull them out of this state unless they are really deep into the drug induced experience. Once the drug wears off, all hell breaks loose, so to speak. They are instantly surrounded with busy, daily activities, daily stress, family stress, job stress, etc.

This wears down their ability to handle life, and their remembrance of the warm and snuggly womb, morning bed, drug, or alcohol, whichever makes them feel safe, causes them to want to escape life and get back to their inner safety. Unfortunately, life expands and the life inside of all of us wants to expand and grow and try new things. It is unnatural to only ever seek the safety of snuggly blankets and that feeling of safety. It is more natural to have a balance, where you go to work, hang out with your family, and then, if you need it, you sit in a safe, secluded place and feel the warmth and safety of the security you have created for yourself.

When it comes to mobile drug testing and alcohol testing, Mediscreen has it made. In your business, you need a way to determine, for sure, if any of your employees are abusing illicit substances. For drug and alcohol screening nationwide, with a company accredited to AS 4308 by NATA, call up Mediscreen and have us come to your business and take care of your pre-employment and regular screening. We are one of the leading mobile collectors in the nation, and we service business sites nationwide.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/warm-and-snuggly/

Forcing It versus Letting It Grow Organically

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Forcing a situation is productive when the end result outweighs the effort put into forcing it. In general, forcing anything is automatically placed under the category of Plan B, second best. Plan A, or the best, is usually considered to be whatever way is more organic. Drug and alcohol testing is part of an inherently organic process. It begins with your decision to build a business or, if you are a manager in said business, to take responsibility for your portion of the company.

In order to grow and maintain the level of growth of your business, you must have long term, medium term, and short term plans in place. You must see the end result, and as you gain knowledge and perspective, you must be able to appropriately alter your business plan and your company’s goals in order to account for changes in both environment and in personal decisions regarding the direction of your business.

Workplace drug testing is part of this organic process, and it is the input you need to correctly assess the one factor in your business which you cannot directly control: the workers. In order to make decisions regarding their employment, you must be able to understand their abuse or beginning abuse of substances which are illicit both legally and regarding your company policy.

Drug and alcohol testing is essentially information gathering. Think of it as private research data from inside of your own business. You will have a lot of data at your fingertips, but you will not be getting it concerning your competition or your customer base, but regarding the most important factor of your company’s entire life cycle: the workers.

Are you beginning to see a pattern here? The answers lie in the people themselves, not in faceless and meaningless numbers and data about information systems. Mediscreen is AS4308 accredited by NATA. The answers lie in what the people are doing or refraining from doing, in what their stresses become, and in what their pressures become. Alcohol and drug testing, like the NATA accredited onsite testing done by us, is part of the solution to the problem of employer-employee benefits. It shows you what you need to know, but it does so in a solid, scientific way.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/forcing-it-versus-letting-it-grow-organically/

Emptiness is Not So Beautiful

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When you hear a piece of soulful music, or you walk out onto the city street on a clear night where the golden lights sparkle against the black velvet sky, you may feel bit of emptiness…but in a good way. When people paint or write music for emptiness, they are glamorizing it like it’s never been glamorized before. You see, emptiness can be beautiful, but then it can be dangerous and heart wrenching, as well.

What do we mean by that?

Well, a good kind of emptiness involves some sort of helpful cleansing of your spirit. You get rid of something which was bothering you or your intentions are not as bright as you thought they would be, but they are lot stronger than you realized. These are examples of good kinds of emptiness in your soul.

Bad emptiness comes when you have the mental or physical ability to do something, but your emotional ability to handle something is so low that you are standing behind a glass wall, looking at your potential, but unable to do anything about it. You are helpless and powerless, and definitely feel that way.

When an alcoholic or drug abuser enters a workplace, they are not just filled up with this bad emptiness, but they are bringing it to touch and infect everyone with whom they come in contact. You know that drug abuse and alcoholism can easily be passed down through a family, and it is because once you are exposed to this starvation level of energy, it is hard to rise above it. It is very toxic.

Mediscreen brings onsite drug and alcohol screening to Australia. No matter where your company or its branches are in this great nation of ours, Mediscreen will come to your workplace and screen your employees for you. Mediscreen is AS4308 accredited by NATA. Workplace drug testing is easy, convenient, and more cost effective through us. It is also a good way to implement employee drug testing using a company which is NATA accredited for onsite drug testing. We believe in your business being filled with good, emotionally strong, narcotic clean employees.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/emptiness-is-not-so-beautiful/

Timing is All Important

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Have you ever had a perfect day or party or event planned, but it went off horribly because it was just the wrong time to do it? ThisTiming is All Important can apply to many different areas, such as things which are interrupted by or are enhanced by our circadian rhythms, someone else’s plans, or just how things seem to move along fluidly and smoothly or with many difficulties and many forced movements.

Timing is all important. The best laid plans with the best people and the best set of circumstances are all laid waste when the time is not right. And yet, when the time is correct, even bad employees, makeshift patch jobs and underestimated scenarios can suddenly swing into full bloom and all of a sudden there is a fluidity and flow. There is genuine candor and relationship building. Rather than having to manage people, people are easily talked to and dealt with. Things like weather and public attitudes and general mayhem or calm in the air can all contribute to this so called “good” or “bad timing.” Whatever the case, you have a very real case for being flexible with your plans when you understand how important and how awesome correct timing really is.

Drug and alcohol testing is brought in when employees are being tested for illicit behavior either on or near the workplace environment. Even showing up to work under the influence is really harmful and can still lead to injuries, fatalities, broken client relationships and lowered morale on the whole. Workplace drug testing laws only exist in high hazard industries, so companies which are not under these laws must look ahead to their own specific needs and see if employee drug screening is a good idea. In many cases, it is a great idea!

Mediscreen provides onsite drug testing and alcohol screening to business in every part of Australia. Onsite testing guarantees that your worker screening is done right at your place of business and is done quickly and efficiently.

Now that is what we call good timing. Any form of saved time to the benefit of all is good timing.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/timing-is-all-important/

Beauty, Self Respect, and Changing

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Beauty is, indeed, in the eye of the beholder. If you see yourself as beautiful, then you are beautiful to you, or handsome, as the case may be.

Ah, but respect requires so much more. You must have self respect in order to gain respect from other people.

And when it comes to changing who you are as a person, you have to find both the new and old you as beautiful and you have to respect the past and the future you. Well, that becomes a little complicated, doesn’t it?

Not really. The answer lies in how you see yourself, so the whole solution is completely under your control. Secondly, you have to see yourself in certain ways in order to become that type of person in your own eyes. Thirdly, you have to continue to see yourself in certain ways in order for other people to be able to see you in those ways, too.

It’s simple and straightforward. Choose to see yourself as good looking all of the way through, and choose to respect yourself, and all of the other pieces of the puzzle fall into place all by themselves. It really can be all that is required for the other pieces to fix themselves over time.

In business, you must maintain outward professionalism, and that means showing people how much you care about their money, their business, themselves as people, and their goals in life, both professionally and personally. Mediscreen brings onsite drug and alcohol testing to the forefront of this thought. We are a leading collection agency and have NATA accreditation to AS4308.

We are proud to be NATA accredited for our onsite drug testing services, and this is part of the Australian business marketplace. It is necessary in order for companies to be able to correctly and accurately evaluate their employees concerning substance abuse on the jobsite, and Mediscreen makes this happen right on your jobsite. Well, we believe that this brings beauty to your business in the form of productive, professional employees, and that it brings self respect to your business through the act of taking pride in your work. Mediscreen and onsite drug and alcohol screening are part of your future.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/beauty-self-respect-and-changing/

Signs of Alarm

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When you are talking with someone and they behave in an unexpected way, in a way which denotes fear, anxiety, shiftiness, cowardice, or some other negative trait, then you may wonder at their behavior. It is the unexpected which causes us to wonder. If we expect someone to be nervous and agitated, then we don’t really care if they end up being that way, and some of us may even find it amusing, on top of that. However, if someone displays a negative trait when one was not expected, it sounds as an alarm in our brain.

We weren’t expecting something shifty like that.

Therefore, sound the alarm.

Of course, alarm also indicates fear and many people are either afraid of a situation they are currently in or they are naturally very fearful. In this way, they depict alarm in situations where it is not appropriate or productive to do so.

For instance, if someone just saw a coworker die or they learned that their spouse is cheating on them, it would make sense that they would immediately go out for a strong drink as soon as they leave work.

However, if your employees are simply bringing drugs or alcohol to the workplace environment to consume them onsite, then you have a very real problem on your hands. Not only is this a problem in case someone is injured, but the spirit of fear spreads very quickly and people who are easily stressed out often find themselves abusing drugs or alcohol while on the jobsite. Well, of course, that is not appropriate, so make sure that you have plenty of regular drug testing scheduled for the future.

Don’t be alarmed. Be informed. Stay on top of your pre-employment screening and your onsite saliva collection by switching services over to Mediscreen. We come as often as you schedule us, and we screen everyone in your business right there onsite. If you are looking for convenience, or saved money, or just want to find a business which is NATA accredited for medical testing, then you have found the right place with us.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/signs-of-alarm/

When You are Easily Influenced

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Some of us are more easily influenced than others. No, this does not make us weaker and it does not make us idiots. It just means that our spirit reacts to external influences in more personal way. Out of the four major personality types (Thinker, Feeler, Intuitive, and Sensate), the Feelers and the Intuitives, especially the Intuitives, are more likely to be easily influenced or easily affected by their surroundings.

Therefore, it is of great importance to know what to do about this little trait of yours if you have it. There are, of course, times when you want to be affected by a good movie, a close friend, or the bonds of friendship out in the wild around a campfire. However, when your boss is yelling at your or your spouse is demoralizing you, it is a good idea to know of a way to shut down the influence these things have on your spirit.

First, you must step back, both literally and figuratively. By giving yourself a modicum of distance between yourself and your problems, you are beginning the separation process. Then, recognize how they and their way of dealing with life is different from yours. They may be more emotional and you may be more practical, etc.

After you’ve done those two things, give them a response which is uniquely your own, not a copy or an exact opposite of their reaction. This way, you are making your response controlled by you and not them.

Finally, make sure these traits don’t interfere with your business. Use onsite drug and alcohol screening from Mediscreen to bring a more democratic approach to this process. Simply screen all of your employees at their place of business with our handy mobile drug and alcohol testing system, and we will make sure that your time and money are saved from having to send all of your workers to a regular laboratory. Onsite drug testing is infinitely more valuable than the slow, tedious waiting in line and traveling that laboratory screening requires.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/when-you-are-easily-influenced/

Personal Code of Ethics

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Are codes of ethics different between societies and individual people? What I mean by this is, is a personal code of ethics necessarily any different from that of the society they keep and the societal standards which are around them?

It’s a good question, and it makes all of us think, individually, about how we have set up our own personal codes of ethics. After all, don’t we all think constantly about our ethics? The answer is, not really. It is usually not required to think about these things. Unless you have an inherently philosophical nature, you probably haven’t thought more than once or twice about your own personal ethics. It’s not exactly the grocery list, the interesting book you’re reading, or your love life, nor would it hold your attention as long as these things would.

It’s necessary, therefore, to think about it now, when the subject has been broached. Think about what you believe about your rights to do things, and whether or not your version of “right” and “wrong” directly correspond with the laws of your area. This is not a political article. It is merely to get businesspeople thinking about how they go about presenting their business to the public.

You will need to make sure that your employees are exhibiting the same professionalism that you exhibit. And, if they cannot do this, are they working in a part of your business where this would still be acceptable? Looking at drug testing program, such as an onsite drug and alcohol testing program, would naturally be a part of your job as the owner or manager of your business. It is necessary to set an example, so being visibly active in your business’ drug testing program is a good idea.

If you would like to make sure that your employees maintain a strong personal code of ethics, well you cannot read their minds, but you can employ a regular onsite drug testing system from Mediscreen. We bring our accreditation by NATA to AS760 to your business place. We have a high quality onsite saliva collection program which can become part of your regular fitness and wellness testing.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/personal-code-of-ethics/

Blue Water

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When you think of water, you think of blue water. Very few people think of water as an actually clear substance, even though we all know that that is exactly what it is. Water is blue, in our minds. When we visualize the ocean, it is blue. When we think about a swimming pool or a pool of any kind, we see it as blue. Even a bathtub full of water has a faint bluish tinge, and so we even think of that as blue, just a little.

Well, the reality is that water is not blue. It is clear. It is colorless. However, your perception is reality, is it not? When your business thinks about gaining success, does it not think about the ways in which it is weak? It is good to care about these things, but not that much. You have to care, but not that much! Really, it is true.

What do you think of when you think about money? Do you picture yourself paying all of your bills and still having money left over in the end? Do you picture your company bringing in revenue but still being in a lot of debt when all is said and done?

Perception is reality, and this is not exception.

Employees feel successful in an environment of success. You, yourself, feel better in when you think of things which make you feel better. Don’t worry if they are not realistic. Don’t worry if your head is temporarily in the clouds. If you are working toward a real goal with real rewards, your motivation will be sky high. However, if you look at the appearances of things as they are now, this less-than-perfect view can determine and focus how you see the world tomorrow.

Don’t bet on everyone having your back. However, you should expect it. Don’t plan for the future while avoiding your employees’ flaws and bad habits. However, plan for the future where it is not only easy to succeed, but success is something which is worth achieving.

Mediscreen is NATA accredited for onsite drug testing, and we bring onsite drug testing and alcohol screening to your business on a whole new level. We are accredited by NATA for 4308 onsite collection. If you are looking for improvements, look at us.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/blue-water/

Exercises in Success, Rinse and Repeat

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We are all familiar with the old shampoo bottle adage “rinse and repeat” which is printed on all our showering hair care regimen materials. Of course, when you are exercising other skills besides lathering your tresses, you may find it easier to remember that habits are the foundation of all success and most failures. Habits, repeated over and over until you really get down the routine, are part of what make humans so powerful and yet so vulnerable.

If you repeat exercises in success, whatever they may be for your particular job title and routine, you are creating habits of success. This is a great way to leverage the power of your sub conscious mind into creating habits which you don’t have to invest in physically, emotionally or mentally like you would your non-habitual actions.

The way that humans are vulnerable, though, is through the same process. If you create habits of failure or of just not doing anything when you know you should be performing and completing tasks, then you are making it easy on yourself to not fulfill tasks, not complete work and to not end up being successful at the end of the day, or at least without enormous amounts of emotional energy being sunk into the work at hand.

Exercises in success must be kept up, day after day, even when they become irksome, because when the habits sets in for the long term, you will find it to be invaluable in your daily work. For more information, check out the book titled “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg.

In the meantime, contact Mediscreen today. We are NATA accredited for medical testing, and we bring our fitness and testing, our mobile drug testing and alcohol testing, and our high quality customer service directly to your workplace. We make sure that you have everything you need to make a success out of your business and to keep it on top during all of the inevitable changes which occur in the business marketplace.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/exercises-in-success-rinse-and-repeat/

Misery Does NOT Love Company

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While we all enjoy getting together to complain about the same thing because we believe that it gives us some sort of relief or venting power, misery does not always love company. Some people who are introverted and keep to themselves only withdraw further into their own worlds when they are looking to get away from it all. This means that they have no desire to be helped by outsiders and it means that they are looking to gain peace, or at least to mask their pain, by collecting their thoughts in private and by working everything out for themselves.

Extroverts, or people who love being sociable most of the time, still have a great desire to receive help from other people. In fact, the energy of other people, as long as it is positive energy, really makes them feel good and they walk away from bad circumstances feeling uplifted and hopeful.

Often, extroverts do not understand introverts, and they call them “shy” as if somehow introverts are fearful of being around other people. It is simply a preference and they enjoy putting their energy inward rather than outward.

Now, if misery loves company in some ways, it certainly despises company in other ways. You see, if introverts are given the chance, they would choose to be by themselves and to figure things out in the privacy of their own minds rather than airing things in public and then discussing and arguing the matter with other extroverts until everyone feels satisfied. Introverts often want a definite concrete solution.

It is important that when introverts abuse drugs or alcohol, they are not able to isolate themselves fully from the world around them. That is how their abuse can turn into obsession.

And, I should know. I am a hardcore introvert, myself.

That is why Mediscreen brings onsite drug testing and alcohol screening straight to your business. We are even NATA certified for our onsite drug screening. NATA accredited Medisceen to AS 4308 for onsite urine drug testing. If you get everyone screened at once, then it is over and done with, and everyone can quickly and easily return to their workplace duties without all of this added pressure to schedule something else and meet with more people and stress out even more about everything.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/misery-does-not-love-company/

Peace Created and Peace Born

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We all know someone who is naturally peaceful and who naturally takes the world by storm in their own quiet, peaceful, easygoing and carefree way. What is their secret? Do they just always feel comfortable in their surroundings? The truth is that peace created and peace born are not that different. People who are naturally peaceful were still raised in an environment where peace was naturally and easily available. Therefore, it stands to reason that those who are trying to create their own peace would be doing something inherently similar to those who seem to be born with it.

Peace is defined differently to all of us. Some of us have a need to for literal peace and quiet, with no hassles, pressures, or deadlines. Some of us just want to get along with people and as long as we have that, we’re good. And then there are some of us who just want to be physically safe and to be able to work at a real and stable job, and our needs are fully met. So, as you can see, we all have different requirements for what brings peace into our lives.

At work, we may need our boss to correct us gently rather than harshly in order to retain our peace. Sometimes, we just want the deadlines and pressure of work because it makes us feel alive inside. At other times, we will do anything at our jobs and put up with any type of stress just so long as we have a definite cut off point at the end of the workday, with no overtime whatsoever.

Mediscreen is available to your work for another reason: the peace of knowing that your employees are drug tested and clean. That really makes all of the difference, doesn’t it? When you know that you are working people who are clear headed, you can develop work habits and patterns of behavior which are good for your company. Drug testing in Australia is made easy by our 4308 onsite collection. If you would like to know more about what we can for your business.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/peace-created-and-peace-born/

Alluring Office Personnel

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We have all known alluring office personnel. Particularly, there is usually one or two people in the office who far outreach everyone else when it comes to looks. Their allure is extremely clear. It is not just about being good looking, though that is a large piece of the pie. It is about their grooming, their self-respect, their strength, their confidence, and their personality.

Many people dream about being or being noticed by these gods and goddesses of the workplace. However, many of them don’t consider themselves that distant from everyone else. Yes, they know they’re better appearing, but they don’t consider the gap to be that wide. The truth is that most people who are not on the top of the looks pyramid consider themselves to be a lot further away from the top of the pyramid than the way things appear from the top itself.

If misunderstandings arise in the office, especially between these different levels of appearance among people, it can lead to resentment and many other irrational behaviors. Therefore, it is necessary to keep everyone’s head clear and to make sure that company policies preventing drug and alcohol substance abuse in the workplace from being broken. It is also very important that the attractive people are not hindered or shown more respect than they are due. They should be taken seriously, and they should also make themselves worthy of being taken seriously. That involves making sure that your employee onsite drug testing program is up to par and working properly and regularly.

Make sure that your business itself is alluring, and you can only do this by bringing in lots of correct, accurate, reliable employee evaluation techniques.

Mediscreen is accredited to carry out onsite urine drug testing to AS 4308. Our synthetic drug testing is perfect for keeping your business alluring, strong, healthy, and in good working order. Our mobile service, our onsite drug testing, is ready for your testing and implementation. We help you with your pre-employment screening, and with your regular testing process. We bring your screening right to your place of business. Now, there is not much which is more alluring than that to both employees and business owners.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/alluring-office-personnel/

Mastering the Basics, Over and Over

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If you have become a business master, then you are aware of how important the basics are. Everyone seems to be focused on learning quickly and mastering all of the complicated techniques out there that there are to learn. However, if you cannot master the basics, those techniques will be useless, and you can conquer the business world, the gladiator’s arena, the marathon, and any other challenge presented to you if you have only the basics but they are mastered.

So, what are the basics, exactly? Well, if you are a carpenter, the basics would be the simple things like measuring, cutting, and nailing. The simple things which you learn in the very beginning. If you are a writer, then the basics would be clear, simple sentences with proper punctuation and grammar. A homemaker would have basics such as simple gardening, basic cleaning, and easy cooking.

In business, the basics include implementing different systems, such as mobile drug testing and alcohol testing like the kind of services you can get from Mediscreen. We provide synthetic drug testing as well as alcohol screening to businesses all over Australia, and we come to your worksite. Mediscreen is NATA accredited for medical testing, and we are proud of our long record of high quality business to business service.

If you wish to hire us, we can come to your workplace, screen all of your employees, and their records will be stored on site, at their place of work. This is one of the basic systems which, if you keep practicing it, will hold up to scrutiny and will bear your business forward with gusto, hope, and a reasonable amount of peace to boot. Mediscreen’s drug testing knowledgebase is wide, varied, and deep. We have many skills, qualifications, and business talents which will make your own business that much more enjoyable and that much better able to address any difficulties which may arise from dissatisfactory test results, if they are any. Master the basics of your business.

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The Best Path for Growth

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Growth in business must be planned. The way a business system or business plan is set up is rather regimental and does not allow for any growth in the future, or very little, if it does. Growth must absolutely be planned for, otherwise it cannot take place.

And, if growth cannot take place in your business, the orders will roll in but you will not have enough manpower or systems in place to deal with them, or your business will be ready to grow, but you will have prevented it from bringing in any more money than it did last year, which is not a good thing if inflation and the economy make growth pretty much necessary.

By placing your trust in the inevitability of change, by expecting it but not forcing it, you will always be prepared for change in the future. It is easy for us all to get in the habit of not having change in our lives, but the truth is that that is how few people actually grow and learn. Change may come slowly, or it may come in overlapping steps, but if it comes, it really helps the people who embrace it.

That includes businesses.

The best path for growth is to expect, but not force, change. That way, when things begin to shift, you can make preparations in plenty of time for staff changes, company re-organization, redistribution of company funds, and so on. Knowledge is power, in this case, and awareness brings that power to you.

Make sure that your employees are ready for any change which occurs in your business. This may include layoffs, re-organization, new strategies, new systems, etc. They cannot do their best for you if they are under the influence of illicit substances while at work. Mediscreen brings pre-employment screening and regular drug and alcohol testing to your place of business. Mediscreen has NATA accreditation to AS 4308, and our onsite drug testing services are unparalleled in Australia. No matter where your business is located, we are here for you.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/the-best-path-for-growth/

A Little Wild, A Little Safe

A lot of what makes people believe in someone or something is the confidenc which that person inspires in those people. In many cases, people find that a cause or a strong leader is enough upon which to rest their hopes, desires, and strengths. There is a belief, there is a faith, in what is going on around them or in who they are listening to. That means that, if you are able to inspire this confidence in other people, you will be able to bring about this same transformation and this same dependency upon your own business when it comes to products or services.

As much as some people may complain about the “powers that be,” those powers would not have that authority without it being given to them by the same people who are complaining about it. Power is not grabbed, instead of earned. Honor is not bought, instead of deserved. As much as some attempt to make it sound like we are all sheep being led to the slaughter, so to speak, we are actually in full control of our own lives, and those who have power over us have it at our bequest.

This also means that, no matter how badly your circumstances, you can bring yourself out of any bad situation and immediately put yourself in a good situation right away. This is normal, healthy, and beneficial. In fact, many people think that if someone has the ability to pull something off, of course they will do so.

However, often someone’s ability is not the only determining factor. Many people fail to believe in themselves or in their power to change the world, and this belief turns into failure at every turn, no matter how skilled or talented they really are. Good things happen to those who ask for them, and those who expect them fervently and interestedly. Mediscreen has NATA accreditation to AS4308 and AS4760.

Mediscreen brings the above healthy attitudes to your company. Drug testing in Australia is made better by our abilities to bring a healthy environment to your business. Mediscreen is accredited by NATA in onsite drug testing, and we specifically focus on onsite drug and alcohol testing, which is a goal in and of itself, because having your employees tested right onsite is the wave of the future. If you look at our website, this will be made clear to you.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/a-little-wild-a-little-safe/

Another Essay on Compounding

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When you do something every day, it doesn’t just become a habit where it bothers you or irritates you if you don’t do it in the future. When you do something every day, it becomes part of your world, and the effect of it builds up over time. For example, let’s say that you begin to read a really large college textbook. It is huge and it is bulky and it may seem as if you will never get through it. If, however, you read ten pages of it every day, you will be completely through it in a month or less.

Daily actions compound upon themselves and create really informative and revealing facts about the person who is doing the actions. Alcohol and drug testing may seem as if it doesn’t have to be that regularly implemented to you, but this is a mistake to think this way. Onsite drug testing and alcohol testing must be regularly used, or it does not have the same effect as it does when put on a frequent schedule. Why is this?

The answer lies, again, in compounding.

Employee drug and alcohol testing is meant to evaluate any employees for substance abuse. When regularly implemented, you increase the likelihood by far that you will actually catch someone with illicit substances in their system while they are on the jobsite and the inference to that is that they are an increased risk to all there. Well, for this you need a company which is NATA accredited for medical testing, for synthetic drug testing.

It is therefore necessary to implement it regularly and frequently and it needs to be on a strict schedule. To be lackadaisical about it is to not fully care about what state your employee workforce is in. And, since the state of your workforce determines the revenue of your company and your personal profits, you absolutely should care about it. To learn more about what Mediscreen, a NATA accredited medical drug screening company.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/another-essay-on-compounding/

Peace from Within

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Peace is kind of subjective, if you think about it. What seems peaceful to some people is boring to others, and what seems relaxing to some people is far too exciting or physically taxing to others. And, as for peace of mind, we all have various priorities, and so we all achieve peace of mind in various ways: financial acumen, income, family, loving relationships, children, parents, etc. So, even if the world agreed on peace instead of war, it would be less than likely to occur, because we all have different ideas of what peace looks like and feels like.

If any of you study meditation, then you know how important it is to draw energy and mindfulness from deep within yourself. And, if you have studied and practiced meditation for any length of time, you probably have ascertained that the kind of peace you want just doesn’t come to you from external sources, but from the inner reservoirs of your meditation chamber.

If you have difficulty thinking of meditation as being very effective, just picture what it was like as a kid when you hid under your covers and dreamed of wild worlds and yourself as the hero/heroine. That is what meditation is supposed to do for you. And, really, that is in many ways what meditation is like for many people, the hidden worlds from within you powering your daily life, rather than the external world around you giving you all of your sustenance.

If you have ever dealt with workers who abuse drugs or alcohol, then you know how difficult it is for them to draw energy, life, and resources from within themselves. They seek external validation of their hopes and their fears, both, and they are often caught up in workplace drama.

Mediscreen helps you to understand which behavior is drama and which behavior is due to abusing illicit substances. You just need to have the information you can get from our onsite drug testing and alcohol testing services. Mediscreen is NATA accredited for medical testing, which means that we can truly hold pride in the services we provide our business clients.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/peace-from-within/

Delighting in the Faults of Others

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We have a little spite inside of us, and no matter how bad things get, we all have a little compassion, too. It is when we allow this spite to take over our inherent human natures that we find ourselves in a bad position regarding other people. It is always best to be on friendly terms with everyone rather than being in a community of people around whom you always have to be watchful.

Workplace drug testing is part of our positive connection with the business community. When we allow our employees to abuse substances while on the jobsite, we are not only liable for any accidents which may occur, but we are also affected by how our employees interact with the business community around us. If a worker who is high offends a customer, or a drunk employee ticks off a client, then we would have retained an employee which has just cost us additional revenue. That is dangerous.

It is easy to find fault in others, and this is especially true for workers who engage in substance abuse. There is an inherent lack of or inability to create personal responsibility within oneself in drug addicts and alcoholics. This means that, in the professional workplace, it would be so much more difficult to pull off the requirements of the job and to behave in a professional manner.

However, you cannot control who, out of your employees, may abuse drugs or alcohol offsite. You can control what happens in your workplace, though, and that is very important. Mediscreen is NATA accredited for onsite testing, and we bring you the data which tells you which of your employees is abusing substances or is under the influence of substance while on the jobsite. Onsite drug testing and alcohol testing is a part of the many business solutions you have available. Since Mediscreen is NATA accredited to AS 4308, we are proud of our accomplishments.

It is not neighborly to delight in the faults of other people. It is, however, very neighborly to protect your employees from drug and alcohol abusers while they are at work. Screen your employees using drug and alcohol testing from Mediscreen, and you will be doing everyone a huge favor.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/delighting-in-the-faults-of-others/

No Way Home from Here

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Have you ever abused drugs or alcohol? Have you ever done it long enough that you just don’t feel the goodness from it like you used to, so you had to increase your self-medication? Well, we will inform you of something really interesting. Nobody knows their way home. It’s just that alcoholics and drug addicts typically never knew that, in their lives when they were sober, no one else knew the way home, either. No one knows what’s going on. Nobody knows what will happen next. We can do our best and prepare for disasters, and there will be plenty of time and opportunity for using these things if all goes well, but if things go wrong, you may feel that you should have been paying attention. Well, yes, you should have been paying attention, but you don’t need to know for sure what will happen next. Things may be okay and they may not be, but you will face the future when it gets here, no matter what, and only you can determine what attitude you will bring to solving any problems you encounter.

Mediscreen provides onsite drug and alcohol testing services to businesses all over Australia. We are NATA accredited for medical testing and we are proud of our mobile drug testing program. On top of that, our drug testing equipment is solid and one hundred percent reliable, as far as human exactness can go anyway and that’s a lot. We are the leading collection agency in Australia and we here at Mediscreen would like to welcome you to our client list.

And as for your lost employees, remember that they only perceive that there is no way home from here. That is their perception, but it is not their reality. They can find a way back and the only thing you can do to help them is to recommend counseling, refer them to your EAP if your business has one, and then just screen them regularly. You and all of your employees should be regularly screened for drugs and alcohol. Mediscreen is the company to come to.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/no-way-home-from-here/

New Transitions

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New transitions are meant to establish a new way of looking at the world, embracing the future, and preparing for your future goals to grow and become fruitful. As in growing any type of long term plant, you will have to really be careful to be consistent and to view the project as a long term positive trial or important set of circumstances. It is important that you be willing to embrace the security and promise of tomorrow. New promises are brought by knowing that the future is a good one, and that you should be hopeful of good things to come, not worrying or stressing out just because something is different or appears to be a bad step or a move backward.

Transitions are an important part of life. By really thinking about the circumstances logically, you can see how there really is not a problem, and by viewing the whole thing with your intuition rather than with your fear, you can get a much more accurate view of the future than you would if you let your old negative mental habits hold sway in your decisions and in the way that you do things.

There are numerous people and books written by these people, both of which describe how better things always follow bad circumstances, and how life becomes easier when you embrace negative circumstances as being the fulfillment of the next new and beautiful promise in life. This attitude cannot be adopted, however, if you have a mentality of lack and limitation, which is the dominant mentality among drug addicts and alcoholics. This mentality being brought into the workplace can be really bad.

Make sure you know what is going on among your employees. Mediscreen is NATA accredited for medical testing, and we have a strong drug testing knowledgebase. Let our health and wellness specialists help you by informing you of any problems through the use of onsite drug testing and alcohol screening. Our onsite AOD testing service makes sure that you have a business which is up to date, information wise, and that you know of any potential issues among your staff.

This article has been taken from: http://www.mediscreen.net.au/new-transitions/

New, Better, Changing Tomorrows for the World of Drug Testing

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The truth is that the world drug testing, just like any other industry is always changing at a moderate to slow pace and is governed by influences from within businesses as well as from the leaders at the very top of the pile. Wherever these changes happen to come from, we are in a unique position in today’s world to create flow and stored electricity, in the esoteric sense, within our companies.

That means that, no matter what type of business you have, we are able to help your company define its goals, set plans, objectives, and rules, and generally bring about good things to your business through the use of our services here at Mediscreen. You see, our company specializes in onsite drug and alcohol testing, which means that our staff visits your business place and screens your employees, onsite, for drugs and alcohol.

This is a great way to implement pre-employment screening, particularly if you have many people scheduled for interviews at your place of business. This is a great way to get everyone dealt with at the same time or over the course of several days. The whole situation is beautiful, efficient, and elegantly run.

Mediscreen uses some of the latest technology available while still implementing useful methods which have always withstood the test of time. We know how to get the job done right, without compromising our high standards or your high expectations for our quality control.

If you are looking for a business which is NATA AS4308 and AS4760 accredited, Mediscreen is your company. We know how difficult it can be to pick out a mobile drug and alcohol testing company, especially if your business is in a heavily populated area with many choices. However, you might want to think about it this way. If your business has multiple locations and some of your jobsites are out in very isolated areas, Mediscreen may be the only onsite drug testing and alcohol screening company which services truly nationwide. We really make sure that we can take care of your various worksites for you. Leave it in our capable hands.

This article has been taken from: http://www.mediscreen.net.au/new-better-changing-tomorrows-for-the-world-of-drug-testing/