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A 9 page paper discussing the effects of drugs, alcohol, and to a lesser degree, violence in the workplace as they relate to the incidence of workplace injuries and even death. Employers first began pre-employment drug screening tests because of the lost productivity attributable to the effects of drugs and alcohol on the abilities of those employees using them, but today, it has become more of a quest for safety than for productivity. Violence in the workplace is always a high-profile occurrence, but is less responsible for workplace injuries and fatalities than are the effects of drug- and alcohol-abuse. Simple irresponsibility can be deadly; the effects of drug and alcohol use can be doubly so. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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long as he is not violent, but until he and his superiors decide his fate, he is not likely to cause any harm to his coworkers because of his growing
mental impairment. Workers in other settings, however, have the potential of causing very great harm to their coworkers indeed however, even to the point of death. Though we have
more industrial safety measures than ever before, the industrial machinery used today is also more complex than at any other time. Simple irresponsibility can be deadly; the effects of
drug and alcohol use can be doubly so. Employers first began pre-employment drug screening tests because of the lost productivity attributable to the effects of drugs and alcohol on the
abilities of those employees using them, but today, it has become more of a quest for safety than for productivity. Violence in the workplace is always a high-profile occurrence,
but is less responsible for workplace injuries and fatalities than are the effects of drug- and alcohol-abuse. The Situation In 1986, Castro et al. wrote: "In the old
days, an oilworker might have decked his boss for asking him to supply a urine sample, and workplace raids by company vigilantes, let alone police, would have been unthinkable.
But in the old days, it was rare for someone to come to work stoned on drugs or for managers to have to worry about cokeheads in the office.
Not anymore, and not just in isolated instances either. Illegal drugs have become so pervasive in the U.S. workplace that they are used in almost every industry, the daily
companions of blue- and white-collar workers alike. Their presence on the job is sapping the energy, honesty and reliability of the American labor force even as competition from
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