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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.

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Current topic: Background Screening: Maintains Workplace Safety In a recent piece on human resources and workplace safety, the online newsletter from Business and Legal Reports (Hr.BLR.com), reported that half of employers faced workplace violence in the last year. So statistically, employers have a 50/50 chance of workplace violence affecting their employees every year. With nearly 2 million people victimized on-the-job, the result is that workplace safety has become an important topic. Workplace violence effects employees on many levels. It leads to lowered morale, productivity lost, high employee turnover, psychological distress in the workplace, workers comp claims, and more. Often, the shock of workplace violence is followed by the tremendous costs of trying to reinstate workplace safety, or at least a sense of it among workers. Violence in the workplace is caused by any number of factors. Domestic violence can follow an employee to work, clients can turn violent, but most often, it's co-workers attacking one another. The easiest way to limit co-worker attacks, is to begin by not hiring violent or aggressive employees. Hiring practices can weed out those with past criminal offenses, drug problems, or a history of bullying in the workplace. These kinds of employees are statistically repeat offenders, and keeping them out of your work environment can save any employer thousands of dollars and a great deal of heartache. This is why good background screening should be a staple of every company's hiring process. Through comprehensive background screening, a thorough criminal check on local, state, and federal levels can prevent repeatedly violent offenders from entering and disrupting the workplace. Employee drug testing upon hiring, in conjunction with random drug testing and post-accident drug testing, can keep compromised employees from injuring or attacking others. Drug users in the workplace also raise costs in that they easily injure themselves, and are quick to file workers comp claims. And, resume checks can keep employers and managers aware of the on-the-job history of anyone who seeks employment in their industry. Maintaining workplace safety is clearly a difficult practice, but with odds as they are, it is clearly in every employers best interest to keep unstable or dangerous employees from entering the workplace at all. 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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