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Current topic: Employee Drug Testing Needed for Dangerous Jobs: Prevention is Key. In the last 20 years, employee drug testing has become a fact of life. In 1983 only 1% of employees faced workplace drug testing, today it’s 49%. Why the big jump? Because in the last 20 years we’ve discovered how much drug abuse in the workplace costs. And it costs a lot. By a lot, we mean $100 billion dollars a year. We now know that employees who abuse drugs and/or alcohol show 3 times more absenteeism on the job, are more likely to steal to feed their habit, are more likely to injure themselves or someone else at work, and are 5 times more likely to file a workers compensation claim when that injury occurs. Talk about adding insult to injury! Employee drug testing reduces the likelihood of such incidents by up to 90% – but we don’t just mean the standard pre-employment workplace drug testing. Employees must be aware that random drug testing is also possible, as well as post accident drug testing. Statistically, construction and hospitality jobs are those where the highest percentage of employees use illicit drugs or drink on the job. Worse yet, workplace injuries are also more likely to occur with these jobs. Yet, these two fields are least likely to institute employee drug testing. What does this mean? That up to 25% of employees in these fields have used illicit drugs in the last year. This kind of liability, combined with the costs of such lax hiring processes, is mind boggling. Many employers in these fields fear that workplace drug testing will drive their employees away. But screening processes reveal that only 10% of the workforce would continue to abuse drugs and alcohol if they knew that random drug testing was regularly instituted at work. And, that 10% would represent the costliest employees on the job. At EBI we strongly recommend pre-employment drug testing, random drug testing, and post-accident drug testing to weed out the most unstable and expensive employees, limit liability, and minimize workplace injury. This would seem to be of special importance to those in the hospitality and construction industry, and we can only hope that employers will heed this advice. 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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