EMPLOYERS
Can you afford to have employees affected by drugs?
Issues of having drug affected employees include:
- Potential workplace violence
- Health and safety issues
- Duty of care to affected persons and other employees
- Decontamination and cleaning costs
- Company reputation cost
Workplace drug screening has become normal practice in many industries. However, where it is not considered normal practice, screening employees for drugs is often controversial.
After handling drugs, an invisible trail of residue is left on surfaces that are touched. You can’t see this residue but you can test surfaces to see if any of it is there (which means you don’t need the person who is leaving the residue behind to be around when you test it).
A surface test allows you to conduct a initial, indicative test, discretely, on items that the person has come into contact with, rather than test the person themselves.
By using a Narcotect D4D Quick Tester Kit, an employer is able to test surfaces in the workplace that a suspected drug user has been in contact with.
Surfaces that may have been contaminated include lockers, vehicles, keyboards, or any other item that the person has regular contact with in the workplace.
Should a surface test indicate a positive result for drugs, an employer is then justified in approaching the suspected person for a personal drug test.