EBI's own background screening library.

With the resources EBI has at its disposal for background screening, drug testing, and human resources management, we felt it was time to offer a consolidated location for accessing many of our best public research materials, hence EBI's background screening online library was born.

You'll also find a complete archive of our EBI Advisor, our periodic newsletter on the background screening industry located here.

You're welcome to use and quote any of these resources, in whole or part, as long as you offer complete attribution to this page and our site.

Current topic: While Employee Drug Testing Sees Glowing Results Criminal Background Screening Still Underused August 2007 While recent studies are finding that employee drug testing is making a significant impact on workplace safety, too many employers are either skipping criminal background screening altogether, or relying on cheap and superficial public records checks, leaving room for dangerous negligence lawsuits, and worse, putting other employees and clients at risk. Employers have had much to celebrate recently, as studies prove that both cocaine and methamphetamine use in the workplace, have declined. By implementing employee drug testing, and especially random tests, drug use has dropped, and everyone is breathing a little easier these days. While all employee drug testing is useful, random testing has proven to be the key to maintaining workplace safety in the long run, and as employers institute random testing policies, they've found that workplace injuries, damages to property, and even claims go down significantly. But what about criminal background screening? Many employers do rely on some form of criminal check, but what they don't understand is that the quality of that check is equally important. Just this week, a California FedEx office discovered one of their employees had a criminal history of forcible rape. And, in Jacksonville, Florida a maintenance worker turned himself in for the home-invasion robbery and murder of an elderly resident. Sadly, cases like these are still occurring, a tragedy when it is so easy to prevent them. In both cases, criminal background screening procedures were either neglected completely, or conducted in a superficial manner. What too many employers don't realize is that by limiting criminal screening to a cursory glance at public records, they might as well have skipped it entirely. Public records are so poorly maintained that results are often skewed, missing, or just plain wrong. This is why quality background screening always includes criminal checks that cover local, state, and national levels, and aren't subject to time limits or similar restrictions. Call EBI to discuss designing a drug testing program to suit your company's needs.Our reliable drug testing programs will give you peace of mind about drug use in your workplace. Criminal records searches. Random drug testing. Reference checks. Everything for a comprehensive picture of your prospective employees. Call us at 800.324.7700 for details.

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