In a fast-paced world, almost everybody will do almost everything to land a job. This includes the tedious process of fine-tuning the appropriate application documents needed, putting in the necessary financial means, and this may or may not include drug tests. Various employers have their own reasons of putting up dug tests in their job application scenarios, ranging from liability reductions to plain insurance cost-cutting. Even the Federal Government mandates every business establishments to be clean of drug-related blemishes before they could ever get their hands on a business contract, and before actual work commences.
However, there are still a few commercial establishments that can be considered "drug-test free". But as the size and number of employees increase, so is the responsibility of ensuring the integrity of their workforce...ensuring chemicals like metabolites don't hamper with employees' productivity and work ethics.
With this in mind it is also worth mentioning that the possibility of certain drug-screening procedures affecting the productivity of employees is there. And the vast majority of employers still think that the only way employment considerations can be truly put to consideration is to employ clean drug-testing procedures in their premises.
There are also restrictions on the employer's end as to when, how, and why a drug testing should be put to order. One is that employers must do drug screenings to test for drugs - the law forbids the testing of other illnesses or medical situations during drug tests. This seem to shed light to the importance of knowing how long substances included in drug testing remain in one's body which is tackled later in this book.
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• If any of these submitted specimen are found to be "out of the ordinary", the lab's license might be revoked.
Questioning your test results will be a very expensive process. The MRO's duty of collecting, reviewing, and analyzing lab test results to ensure the integrity of the results is a job relying entirely on facts. If you are taking other medications that might have triggered your positive result, it is also their duty to contact the pharmacies/physicians involved to make sure the prescriptions are addressed to the right person. As all possible angles are deemed for investigation, any mismatch from the lab reports down to the amount of THC in your urine will just place an accent to your positive findings. If you smoke pot, you should therefore be well aware that THC, along with its metabolites, can stay in your body for weeks.
The ethics of drug testing has become an increased concern for many companies in the recent years. More companies are beginning to use it and more people are starting more to have problems with it. The tests are now more than ever seen as a way to stop the problems of drug abuse in the workplace. This brings up a very large question. Is drug testing an ethical way to decide employee drug use? It is also very hard to decide if the test is an invasion of employee privacy. “The ethical status of workplace drug testing can be expressed as a question of competing interests, between the employer’s right to use testing to reduce drug related harms and maximize profits, over against the employee’s right to privacy, particularly with regard to drug use which occurs outside the workplace.” (Cranford 2) The rights of the employee have to be considered. The Supreme Court case, Griswold vs. Connecticut outlines the idea that every person is entitled to a privacy zone. However this definition covers privacy and protection from government. To work productively especially when the work may be physical it is nearly impossible to keep one’s privacy. The relationship between employer and employee is based on a contract. The employee provides work for the employer and in return he is paid. If the employee cannot provide services because of problems such as drug abuse, then he is violating the contract. Employers have the right to know many things about their employees.
Drug Testing has progressively become very popular in today's low wage jobs. Jobs like Wal-Mart, Sav-on, Block Buster and many burger establishments; where the starting salary is seven dollars and twenty cents an hour requires its applicants to be drug tested before they are hired. Drug testing is based on a blue collar, white collar division.
Drugs are used everyday by people in many different ways for many different reasons. Drug testing has become a standard in pre-employment testing, because of the wide variety of drug use in today's society. Drugs tested for by a possible employer include Cocaine (crack), Amphetamines (crystal), Opiates (codeine, morphine, heroin), PCP (phencyclidine), and Marijuana. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry is used to test hair and urine samples of possible drug abusers or job applicants, and it is the best method for the testing of drug use. Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry are two different methods for identifying chemical substances, and the two instruments have be coupled together to perform a highly complementary analytical function. The gas chromatograph and the mass spectrometer have theories behind how their techniques work, and specific forensic applications for their instrumentation.
test to be administered. In which the drug test came back positive for crystal meth and marijuana. He
...nything at all. If this were to happen, then there would be no point in the faculty that is under the influence being be paid when they’re being a bad influence on kids. Many other jobs drug test their employees. It should be like any other job.
While employment screening in the healthcare sector is decidedly standard, the law does often not require drug and alcohol testing. Substance abuse is one of the leading causes of disciplinary action against a nursing license in the U.S. Random drug screenings are used to detect the use of unapproved or illegal drugs for the purpose of upholding patient safety (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2006). The American Nurses Association (ANA) estimates that six to eight percent of nurses use alcohol or drugs to a degree that would impair professional judgment (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2011). Approximately one-third of the one percent of actively licensed nurses are disciplined each year for their substance misconduct (Kenward, 2008). Protecting patients from unsafe practices and personnel is the primary responsibility of each supervisory board of nursing. However, the fear of punishment from the board or termination keeps many nurses unwilling to come forward (Maher-Brisen 2007). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the viability of mandating random drug testing for nurses and other health professionals. The objective of this would be to address the rooted issues of substance abuse and decrease the risk of harm to patients under the healthcare provider’s care.
There is no clear evidence that drug testing at work has a significant deterrent effect. Drug testing is not a measure of current intoxication and will reveal information about drug use that can have no impact on safety, productivity or performance. Drug testing is designed to detect and punish conduct that is usually engaged in off-duty and off the employer's premises - that is, in private. Employers who conduct random drug tests on workers who are not suspected of using drugs are policing private behavior that has no impact on job performance. Someone may test positive after taking a drug days, weeks or months before. People not generally required to organize their lives to maximize their productivity at work...
In an effort to make drug testing for employees of the federal government more accurate, to deter false positives and false negatives it has been suggested to use alternative methods of testing. The Associated Press reported a movement by the federal government to "overhaul its employee drug testing program". (TAP, pg 1) Currently, the government tests its employees during the pre-employment selection and when accidents
One of the most common arguments in favor of drug testing in the workplace is to prevent occupational injuries and associated costs. There is also a concern with lost productivity due to impairment caused by illicit drug use while on the job. A study found that “the annual costs of these workplace injuries and illnesses...
Substance abuse testing can honestly be a pretty tricky thing. While most people believe it's against your rights, a lot of times we can't just turn them down. Whether it's needed for court or for your job, there's plenty of reasons you may be asked for a random -- or planned! -- urine sample to test for substance abuse. Within recent years, fake urine has become more and more popular as an option for those who are forced into drug tests.
Drug test have been done in many sectors nowadays worldwide. It is being popular in the business sector where the employers do drug testing of the employees. Drug testing in the workplace is done to assist safety mainly. Some companies do drug testing in order to gain public trust. In many of the organization there is an policy, where a person have to take an pre-employment testing for the job. It helps to prevent hiring of individuals who uses illegal drugs. It also ensures, and informs both parties their rights, and responsibilities. Drug testing also ensures the employee to give a reasonable procedures in the workplace for reporting injury or illness. According to OHS Inc, national company with drug testing, drug
The tests can detect street drugs and over the counter drugs. Norchem tests for all drugs requested by a company. As said earlier, they can use all positive results as evidence in a court case against an employee. Employers have to be sure of the drug test results because people could have their jobs, family, possessions, etc. taken from them.
In my opinion, a company has the right demand or ask new employees to do a drug test before they start working, so they can make sure that everyone is safe. Now the utilitarian opinion considers that drug testing breaks the privacy of a person, but since it helps the company, the employees, the employee him or herself, then it is logical to ask for this kind of examination. For example, if a truck driver is going to work for a trucking company where he has to drive, then, of course, he has to do the required tests to make sure that everyone is protected and no one is in danger when he drives. We know that it is a requirement for all drivers by the state law to do their drug test and to have the results sent to the company and the driver, but
When employees get hired, they get a drug test due to the fact that the drug testing can prove if the person they are hiring is a good person for their business. For an example “Approximately eighty-one percent of companies in the United States administer drug testing to their employees.” Drug testing also proves that people who passes it are clean and responsible people who the company can trust on doing their job well done and showing overall percentage of the US using drug testing (Chodorow). People who cheat on a drug test and gets a job will later ruin their job of getting into accidents during working and or start a fight with the boss or coworkers unknowingly just because they were high on drugs. That is why companies strive to do drug tests every time they hire an employee now due to the fact that they don’t want to be reliable for an employee who isn’t responsible and trustworthy of their time at their company. Which it will affect the company financially once employees gets hurt on their job. An employee who is not a drug abuser can really benefit a company by not causing trouble for themselves getting hurt in the company and also the business not being reliable for anything that is caused by the employee; who was not responsible. Another example is that reports confirm that 80% of those injured in “serious drug related accidents are innocent coworkers.” And after it began requiring accidents drug
Mandatory drug tests have proven to help teenagers reduce the use of drugs and alcohol in their daily lives. If young people get used to it when they are young, it’s proven that they would have a difficult time trying to loss their addiction to the substance. Helps the person without any criminal chargers but with all the help needed. They even have different types of drug tests to show the time period of when the person might have taken a drug recently.