Policy Affects and the testing Procedures

Question: Describe about policy affects and the testing procedures. Answer: The employees who abuse drugs may create problems for their peers. This is evaluated that the employees who abuse drugs are low performer in their jobs, their productivity is comparatively less, and there is more absenteeism in their case. Moreover, they cost to company a higher medical compensation (Fischer et al., 2014). In a nut shell they are not considered as a profitable resource for the organization. Hence, drug testing has become a necessity for the organization. However, there are restrictions on drug testing procedures in some countries. The first and foremost thing is that there should be a policy against the drug and alcohol abuse in the company (Fischer et al., 2014). The common principles that should be included in the policy are the reason to establish the policy, the companys expectation and the consequences if violated. This abuse prevention policy is especially for small businesses (Koppenhaver, 2006). The company is restricted for the health and safety of the employees. The drug and alcohol abuse is directly hampering the goal of the company. The company may include the policy in its corporate policy. Specifically, under these circumstances the employees have to go for the drug test. That may be under pre joining formalities, post the any incident happened, during the rehabilitation, the mandatory requirement of The Government, pre test for promotion, randomly, the requirement of client and it may be the site or work specific also (Koppenhaver, 2006). The basic drug test should include the six panel drug test i.e. opiates, cocaine, PCP, ecstasy, amphetamines and psychoactive. Many companies are choosing to go beyond these basic tests. References Fischer, M., Unterecker, S., Pfuhlmann, B. and Deckert, J. (2014) "Methodological problems arising from false-positive drug-screenings",Pharmacopsychiatry, 47(06). Koppenhaver, G. (2006) "Absent and Accounted For: Absenteeism and Cooperative Learning*",Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 4(1), pp. 29-49.