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: Pre-Employment Background Screening: Background Screening Prevents Financial Losses If we haven't yet convinced managers and business owners of the importance of background screening for potential employees, the article released by Occupational Hazards ought to do the job. After reviewing the financial trends associated with businesses who don't pursue pre-employment background screening, Occupational Hazards concludes that these businesses are at a much greater risk for employee injury and economic liability. These findings are supported by the American Society of Safety Engineers, who claims that any employer who fails to institute background screening procedures when hiring new employees is setting themselves up for "losses" based on poor employee performance, fraud, injuries, judgments and damages and other costs. In other words, those who don't follow through with their background screening will pay for it later. Topping the list of background screening must-haves is employee drug testing. This includes pre-employment drug testing, random drug testing, and even post-accident drug testing. Following closely behind are criminal background checks, fingerprint checks, and credit checks. Why so much screening? It's simple -- fingerprinting and a criminal background check speak for themselves, but potential hires who fail their employee drug testing were at a much higher risk for absenteeism, injury to themselves or others, and consequently, higher worker's comp premiums. Meanwhile, employees who failed the credit check were more likely to commit fraud, an epidemic "white collar" crime that costs American businesses billions of dollars a year. Occupational Hazards has recognized that America's safest companies implement all of these factors in their background screening, and more. While insufficient screening is a strong indicator that a company will report these "losses," and worse yet, are much more likely to experience a violent incident of some sort in the workplace. 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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