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#1 Posted : 22 April 2009 12:18:00(UTC)
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Posted By A Campbell
I think that this has appeared before... but here go's!

I have been asked to provide a drugs & alcohol policy and wonder if anyone would be able to share such a document for me to work on in order to put our own in place?

Many Thanks
Tony
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#2 Posted : 22 April 2009 12:31:00(UTC)
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Posted By Pete48
If you search the interwebthingy with your thread title, you will find that you can access a lot of public sector (uni and nhs for example) policies via the weblinks.
Probably a quicker resource than waiting here. Good luck.
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#3 Posted : 22 April 2009 13:20:00(UTC)
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Posted By graeme12345
AC, Lots of everyday items people eat and breath in can give the same indications (when tested) as illegal drug abuse.

I would try to steer them away from this nonsense

My thoughts on this topic,
this is again one of those items that will not work, will affect innocent workers, will put half the construction industry workforce out of a job if it was made statutory.

How will you test a person, how often, who will you test a "judge" (who may be positive because they ate a bar of chocolate), with what equipment, who will be competent to use the equipment, who will train them to use it, who will pay for the training, the employer,in an already declining industry

the workforce will just see this as another load of crap from the H & S bods, which includes me and will make my job even harder to convince employees and concentrate on the real dangers of persons at work
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#4 Posted : 22 April 2009 13:49:00(UTC)
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Posted By Colin Reeves
"I would try to steer them away from this nonsense"

Lucky you - some industries need them owing to legislation! See the Railways & Transport Safety Act 2003.

Colin
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#5 Posted : 22 April 2009 13:54:00(UTC)
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Posted By A Campbell
Very true Colin...

And to include... what my CEO requests ... she normally receives!
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#6 Posted : 22 April 2009 15:15:00(UTC)
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Posted By Alan Haynes
Well - make sure it applies to her, and that she is the first to be randomly tested [unannounced]
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#7 Posted : 22 April 2009 15:28:00(UTC)
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Posted By Adam Worth
"(who may be positive because they ate a bar of chocolate), " :)


What does this mean? If we are talking screeing cups then agree - false positivies are a possibilty. This is why any positive provided by a screening cup should be analysed by an apporved lab.

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