Last updated : November 11, 2024
It’s no secret—a drug-free workplace is not only safer, but more productive and profitable. Lower absenteeism, fewer workman’s compensation claims, state worker’s comp insurance breaks, higher work quality, decreased risk of lawsuits, and lower health care costs are just a few of the ways keeping your workplace drug free will boost your bottom line.
Unfortunately, the traditional practice of sending workers to an off-site lab for drug testing dramatically cuts into those benefits. The hours employees spend traveling to and from the lab, filling out forms, and sitting in the waiting room (or running errands on company time!) are hours lost to you. Your time is money, so it’s in your best interest to cut back on—even eliminate—the amount of non-productive time employees are away from the workplace.
Mobile drug testing saves Cleveland employers both time and money by delivering this very important service directly to your door!
It’s not just service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, enabling you to test employees on site, on every shift. It’s no longer paying employees for the off-shift hours required to visit a brick-and-mortar lab. It’s eliminating employee downtime because everything is done in one spot and for once, they’re waiting on you, not the other way around.
Cleveland employers save time in other ways, too. Designing a legally compliant drug-testing program could take weeks, maybe months, if you tried to navigate this complex process on your own. Mobile drug testing companies spare you both the time and effort by creating a program specifically tailored for your company, based on the size of your workforce and the type of business you do.
Nor will you have to spend untold hours administering the program. Mobile drug testing providers offer full service, up to and including maintaining accurate records, monitoring compliance with rapidly evolving employment law, and taking care of the chain of custody which is only needed if you take action against an employee who fails the test, but oh, so important when you do.
It’s faster. It’s easier, but it also makes good sense economically.
Because mobile testing is both accurate and reliable—so much so, these services have become favorite providers of Fortune 500 companies, major sports organizations, and government agencies worldwide—less time is lost to retesting. The hourly costs incurred when you have to reschedule delayed tests become an expense of the past.
The financial advantages of mobile testing extend beyond time savings. Because drug testing is so complex and legally fraught, this isn’t a process you can safely conduct in house, even if you were willing to make the financial investment an in-house program would require—testing equipment and supplies, the salaries and expense involved in training employees to administer the program, the retainer paid to the compliance attorney who would monitor your program. Finally, trying to do without the expert service mobile testing providers offer, you increase liability and place your entire company at greater risk.
As you can see, mobile drug testing takes the headaches, hassles, and risks out of establishing and maintaining a drug-free workplace. Furthermore, to-your-door service means Cleveland employers save untold hours for themselves and their employees, ensuring undiminished productivity while maintaining maximum workplace safety.
That’s a winning proposition in anyone’s book, but especially in the ledgers of Cleveland businesses using a mobile drug testing service!
