Alcohol and Drug Testing Services
Helping SMEs Manage Alcohol and Drug Risks In The Workplace
I have partnered with a provider of alcohol and drug testing services to help you achieve a safe, healthy and productive workplace. Whether you want to introduce a regular programme of testing or want the reassurance that a test can be organised when you need one I can help you.
In safety and business critical jobs alcohol and drugs can have a serious impact and costly consequences. Implementing a regular programme of alcohol and drug testing can be a key part of your Health and Safety strategy and your duty of care to your employees. Managing the risks protects the individual, their colleagues and your clients, customers and suppliers.
Alcohol and Drug Testing Services
Having an Alcohol, Drug and Substance Misuse Policy is the first step in tackling misuse, if you don’t have one I have a template policy and can work with you to develop that to suit your business requirements. But the policy must be backed up with Alcohol and Drug Testing otherwise you will be vulnerable to as much misuse as if you didn’t have a policy.
The common reasons for Alcohol and Drug Testing in the workplace are as follows:
Pre Employment Testing
For employees who are in safety or business critical roles you will want to be sure you aren’t taking on a risk. In these situations using Alcohol and Drug Testing as part of your recruitment process or probationary period can help you mitigate the risk. Offers of employment can be made subject to satisfactory test results and testing can be carried out before the employee starts work or on an agreed or random date during the probationary period.
Emergency Testing
Emergency testing where you carry out Alcohol and Drug Testing when an employee has been involved in accident at work. The testing will look for evidence of drinking alcohol and use of drugs that could have contributed to the accident. In order for this to happen the fact testing following an accident will happen should be written into your Health and Safety and/or Alcohol and Drug Policy. In these circumstances a tester would be with you within two hours of receiving the request for a test.
Random Programme of Testing
Under a random programme of alcohol and drug testing a tester would attend your premises randomly through the year and test a pre agreed number of employees at each visit. Testing can be random or regular intervals, for instance you could agree there will be one visit a quarter or there will be four visits in a 12 month period. With regards to picking the sample you can give the tester a list of people on site and they pick from that list or you might have one or a selection of employees you want to include and the tester picks the rest. allowing the tester to pick the employees to be tested demonstrates to your employees that the process is fair and transparent.
Back to Work Testing
Where you have an employee who has been off work with alcohol or drug related problems including regular testing in their return to work programme will give you peace of mind that they are remaining alcohol or drug free.
How The Alcohol and Drug Testing Services Work
Testers are based throughout the UK and are available 24/7 365 days of the year; meaning they can generally respond to emergency call outs within 2 hours.
Annual Retainer
If you choose an annual retainer you would pay an annual fee to access the service. Then each time you need a tester, whether that be for regular testing or following an incident onsite or at a customer site there would be a call out fee, a per person test fee and per drug laboratory processing fee (annual retainer clients save on the PAYG rate).
Pay As You Go
Pay As You Go would be suitable if you want to limit usage to emergency call outs when an incident has happened. In these circumstances there would be a call out fee, a per person test fee and a per drug laboratory processing fee. The tester will respond within one working day.
Want To Know More?
To find out more about the Kea Alcohol and Drug Testing Services please book some time in my diary and we can have a chat about your requirements.
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