Workplace drug use is on the rise. Employee drug abuse impairs employees’ ability to function correctly, resulting in increased safety risk and lost productivity. In the United States, about 70% of drug users consumed illicit opioids on the job. The biggest problems show up in the food & beverage, construction, transportation, and healthcare industries. Sometimes [...]
"Drug overdoses, predominately from opioids, now exceed car crashes as the leading cause of unintentional death." --National Safety Council In its publication “The proactive role employers can take: OPIOIDS IN THE WORKPLACE,” The National Safety Council describes, “a disturbing trend [which] has been emerging in the workplace, and it is driven by the use and [...]
The folks at Penn State learned the hard way that ignoring a known or suspected problem won't make it go away. In fact, if you ignore a known problem, by default, you condone it. Would you save a drowning person if he/she were within arm's length? Or would you turn away thinking, "It's none of [...]
