Reasonable Suspicion
Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace causes many expensive problems for businesses and industries ranging from lost productivity to injuries and an increase in health insurance claims. Drug testing has proven to be an effective deterrent to drug abuse. With the help of ScreenSafe, Inc., your organization can implement a program that is minimally intrusive and highly effective. Together we can strive to make your workplace safer and more productive.
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Do’s and Don’ts for Dealing
With Suspected Substance Abuse
Do
Focus on job performance ONLY
Remain consistent in applying your company’s policy
Support what you say with objective observations of behavior
Stay consistent in your use of job standards and job expectations
Act in a calm, objective manner
Keep any conversation or action taken with an employee as private as possible
Discuss an employee’s suspected problems only on a need to know basis
Don’t
Ignore troubled employees and hope that the problem will go away
Try to diagnose the problem
Play Counselor
Moralize
Be misled by an employee’s sympathy-evoking tactics
Cover up for an employee
Allow exceptions for one employee and deny exceptions to another
Publicly confront or take disciplinary action against an employee suspected of substance abuse
Lose your temper, get emotional, or use generalizations when confronting an employee