Drugs and alcohol at work is - your company protected?

Drugs and alcohol at work is - your company protected?

With an increasing emphasis on a company’s responsibility to ensure its employees are fit for work, and the UK Government clamping down on drink and drug drivers, businesses are now being urged more than ever before to ensure that they are adopting best practice health and safety procedures for drugs and alcohol misuse in the workplace.
According to the Department for Transport drugs and alcohol cost British businesses in excess of £6 billion per year in lost productivity and a third of employers say alcohol and drug misuse is a problem at work.  On top of this there is also the potential damage to a business’s reputation should they be held accountable for an employee’s wrongdoing. However, with the plethora of testing equipment and information on offer, it is not always easy to know where to start with implementing an effective drugs and alcohol testing policy.

Suzannah Robin is an alcohol and drug safety expert at AlcoDigital.  She works with dozens of corporate and governmental organisations addressing their alcohol and drug testing needs.For the last 12 years she has helped numerous businesses to implement their drug and alcohol testing policies for their staff through certified training programmes.  These include the correct use of safety equipment, accurately interpreting results and spotting the different signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol misuse.She said: “We have helped companies in many different industry sectors to implement robust alcohol and drug policies and one of the things that concerns all of them from the outset is how their employees are going to react to a new testing policy being introduced.

Glossary:

Drugs: Drogas
Adopting: Adotando
wrongdoing: Transgressão
plethora: Abundancia, grande numero
addressing: Abordando
accurately: Precisamente
misuse: Abuso

Source:http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Business+&+Finance/Health+&+Safety