The human resource department of any organization implements a variety of checks to ensure that new employees are fit to work for their company. Some of those checks include, reference checks, credit checks, and drug testing. Over the past several years the number of companies requiring their employees to take an employment drug test has grown significantly. The purpose of drug testing is to attempt to regulate drug abuse among employees.
And over the past ten years, statistics concerning the drug use of American employees suggest that drug testing is effective. In a ten-year period, the percentage of positive drug tests among employees dropped by half.
Perhaps the most popular, yet the least effective, form of drug testing is the pre-employment drug test. Pre-employment drug testing entails potential employees taking a drug test (usually a urine drug test), and if the result of the test is negative, then he or she will be hired by the organization. Unfortunately, pre-employment drug testing has not always proven to be effective as many people have found ways to tamper with the results. Also, the drug test only occurs once, and in many cases the employee is never drug tested again, which means if he or she uses drugs after the test, the employer may have no way of knowing or of holding the employee responsible for being drug free.
More effective is the random employment drug test. The theory behind random employee drug testing is that the threat of detection is the best method of preventing drug use in the workforce, and, indeed, it has proven to more effectively reduce the number of instances of drug abuse than pre-employment drug testing alone.
And urine drug tests are not the only type of drug tests that employers use when testing employees. Saliva drug testing is becoming more and more popular as they are better able to detect recent drug use and are less invasive than other forms of drug testing. Spray or sweat drug testing is also minimally invasive and can detect drug use up to several weeks. And employers can even opt to administer hair drug testing.
It allows for a long window of detection, and there is no way to adulterate a hair specimen.
Organizations have taken a variety of measures to ensure that their employees are qualified and law-abiding citizens. And employee drug testing is by far the most popular way of detecting drug abuse and encouraging employees to remain drug free.
Author Resource:-
Compliance Safety Systems (http://www.compliancesafetysystems.com/) is a employment drug test. Art Gib is a freelance writer.
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