Why Employers Should Build Trust With Mobile Drug Testing Technicians

By Deanne Shepard


Employers are making efforts to ensure they create a drugs-free working environment. The fact that drugs are rampant in workplaces is something that cannot be underestimated. The work environment itself influences people to indulge in using drugs and illicit substances. While this subject is not new, employers should seek for viable solutions to prevent the problems. Using the services of mobile drug testing technicians helps screen workers to determine the ones indulging in these behaviours.

It cannot be underrated that drugs pose potential dangers to both workers and employers. Workers who are using drugs will tend to cause accidents. The substances affect accuracy, alertness, and reflexes of employees. If they are operating machines, they are likely to cause accidents. Such workers are a threat to themselves as well as colleagues.

Impairment in reflexes, accuracy, and alertness contribute to array of problems. If you are operating a machine and you do not concentrate optimally, you could end up making mistakes. Drugs usually impair judgement and for workers operating machines or driving cars, they can be put at danger if they use drugs when performing their duties.

The more the accidents they occur, the more the employer pays in terms of premium rates. To cut back on costs of premium rates, the employer should try to reduce accidents in workplace. Using substance like alcohol or drugs like heroine can cause problems. People who operate machines could injure themselves or their colleagues when they run those machines while intoxicated.

There are those illegal drugs that are listed by the law and there are other substances, which though not listed as drugs, they could affect an employee when taken during working hours. Drugs will affect the judgement of an employee meaning that one is not able to operate machine or drive a car safely. Accidents related to machine operation can be very fatal. They could cause severe injuries such as brain or head injuries.

If a company is sending away a large number of workers to be screened at a go, it means at any one given time, there is a bigger group of workers who are out of their workstations. In order to ensure you reduce the cost of screening workers, you can call technicians to conduct tests in workplace. It will save you the money you could have used in transport.

When tests are conducted outside, workers can interfere with them. The ability to make concise and viable decisions on the aspect of drugs use is depended on accuracy of results. Workers may use substances, which clear toxins in body thus not being detected of drugs. When you critically examine the loopholes created by offsite screening, it makes it valid to consult technicians to visit your business premises.

The technicians will visit your business premises with all the equipments and do tests fast. It takes a short time for the task to be completed and you might not even interrupt the work schedules of employees. Workers can be tested in turns meaning they remain in their workstations until they are called for the tests. In addition, the results are less likely to be mingled with since the contact with technicians is limited and monitored.




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