Last updated : December 23, 2024
As a business owner or manager, you give your company your one hundred percent top effort. If your industry is service oriented, you make sure that you are offering the finest services that you can provide to your clients. And if your business is manufacturing, you work hard to develop, engineer and execute the most innovative, durable and highest quality products that you can place on the market. Everyday, you work hard to see that your organization shines and is profitable.
To accomplish these goals, you invest money in the best infrastructure possible, which includes assets like supplies, equipment and machinery. Infrastructure, though, includes more than just machines. The people – the employees – who work for you are one of your entities’ biggest and greatest business assets. Without hardworking, loyal and dedicated employees, your company would never soar, and all those machines would come to a grinding halt.And just as you insure and protect your corporation or factory’s building, for example, you need to also protect the investment you have made in your employees. Hiring and training well-qualified workers is an investment in time and money, and this investment needs to be protected and insured like your building. One way to protect your workforce is to guarantee that you have a drug-free workforce.
Drugs and the workplace do not mix. Workers who use drugs, even on a recreational level, and those who are addicted to substances like marijuana, cocaine, pain pills and alcohol are mentally impaired due to the mind-altering effects of these chemicals. Even if they only use on their time off the job, these chemicals remain in the body, and they continue to impair the employee. That impairment then translates into how they perform their job.
Say, for example, you own a taxi company, and one of your drivers uses marijuana, cocaine, pain pills or alcohol. If, in the execution of his work, he has an accident and he injures or kills one of your clients, you, as the company owner, will be held responsible. Yes, the driver will probably be charged for operating a motor vehicle while impaired (under the influence), but the passenger/client’s family will hold you liable for their injuries or death. Liable means dire financial repercussions for your business. But more than money, how will you feel if one of your employees hurts or injures one of your clients? In addition to breaking the law and the financial fallout, there is a moral issue here as well. You want your business to be successful, and you want your company to be a shining star of wholesome corporate responsibility.
Instead of a taxi company, maybe your firm produces a certain kind of widget that needs to be produced on sophisticated machinery. As in the scenario with the taxi service, an employee is again using marijuana, cocaine, pain pills or alcohol. This time, though, instead of harming a customer, he, because he is impaired, makes a dangerous error operating the machinery, and he causes a fellow employee to be hurt or killed. Again, you, the corporation, are going to be held financially responsible by the injured party’s family.
So, how does your business entity prevent this moral, financial and legal nightmare? Obviously, the answer is to hire and retain a drug-free workforce. And when you use USA Mobile Drug Testing, you can be assured that the team you have assembled will also remain drug-free.
