I don’t see any benefit to getting rid of drug tests. We do hair and urinalysis, 10-panel. Initial as pre-screening, and randomly upon hire. Meth and pain pill abuse are rampant in this area.
1) We operate some very dangerous machinery and operators need to be alert. 2) Our products go on the vehicles you drive, so you want to make sure the people putting it together, and the ones checking it for quality are on the ball. Failures that make it to the auto manufacturers can be dangerous and even life-threatening. 3) Bad behavior begets bad behavior. We’ve had to fire people who’ve come up positive on random screenings before, and found ‘nests’ of drug abuse among other associated employees as well.
Our supervisors are also trained to use ‘reasonable suspicion’ criteria if they suspect someone is on something or drunk while they’re working.
“Our supervisors are also trained to use ‘reasonable suspicion’ criteria if they suspect someone is on something or drunk while they’re working.”
I assume that means there must be somebody who is trained to use ‘reasonable suspicion’ criteria if they suspect supervisors and/or higher ranks are on something or drunk while they’re working. However, it would not surprise me if my assumption is incorrect.