Employee Drug Testing Services
Employee drug testing works! Since 1988, “The Drug Testing Index”™ report by Quest Diagnostics Laboratories has been updated and released annually. Their most recent report is based on more than 10 million drug tests of USDOT-regulated, "safety-sensitive", and "general workforce" employees performed during 2021. The success of employee drug testing has long-ago been confirmed! There is no more any question: the continuation of pre-employment, random, post-accident and reasonable suspicion employee drug testing results in lowering employee drug test “positivity” rates and helps socially responsible companies maintain a safer and healthier workplace environment for their employees, customers, and vendors!
Note below, the whopping 68% drop in drug test `positivity` rates for existing employees since pre-employment and existing employee drug testing records were first kept by Quest Diagnostics in 1988:
In 1988, 13.6% of all employee drug tests were positive for one or more drugs.
In 1991, 8.8% of all employee drug tests were positive for one or more drugs.
In 2001, 4.7% of all employee drug tests were positive for one or more drugs.
In 2019, 4.4% of all employee drug tests were positive for one or more drugs.
Great progress, yes; perfection, not quite yet! But, do you see how effective ongoing employee drug testing has become in lowering workplace drug-use?
Unfortunately, employers must continue drug testing today because employee drug-use continues today. OHS Inc. can help your company become and stay drug-free no matter where you are located in the USA, no matter how many locations you have nationwide!
A comprehensive Drug-Free Workplace Program includes pre-employment drug testing your job candidates plus random drug tests of your existing workforce, along with reasonable suspicion (aka, "for cause"), post-accident, return to duty, and follow-up employee drug testing. All services can be provided locally, regionally, or nationwide, in all 50 states. Onsite specimen collection and drug tests of 10 or 1,010 of your employees or employee candidates - at your company`s offices, job sites, or Job Fairs - can also be easily scheduled by OHS locally, regionally, and nationwide (visit: Comparing Onsite Collections to Clinic Collections).
That "one" country is our own United States...representing only 4.52% of the entire World`s population, yet, responsible for using and abusing over 60% of the entire World`s illicit drugs!
Only 23% of our nation`s drug-abusers are the "typically-portrayed" people sitting in abandoned buildings and back alleys of our cities "shooting up" heroin or "snorting coke".
The other 77% of drug-abusers are full-time or part-time EMPLOYED! (If you are not presently drug testing your employees, "some" of those 77% are most likely employed by your company!)
Too few companies that do drug testing realize that "Random" drug tests and "Reasonable Suspicion" drug tests are actually the two MOST important and effective drug testing types to DETER workplace drug use. Unfortunately, both are less utilized by companies that drug test than "Pre-employment" drug tests. Yet, BOTH drug test types offer MUCH more of the important deterrence effect. Employees doing drugs or dealing drugs in the workplace are far more unlikely to do so when random drug testing is in place. Why?
Random drug testing is essentially "surprise" drug testing- once the employee is tapped on the shoulder, they can`t opt out. On the other hand, pre-employment drug tests are the "easiest" of the six types of tests for job candidates to "pass". That is because your job applicants usually have sufficient advance notice of being tested (i.e., the window from time of the interview invitation to time of the actual interview appointment). This helps drug-users to avoid a drug test that has a "Positive" result.
Further, even if your hiring ad does not state, "We require drug testing of all applicants."...today, the unemployed drug-user looking for work knows that the vast majority of companies are now doing at least "pre-employment" testing. This knowledge enables drug-user applicants to stay "clean" for enough hours (e.g., alcohol) or enough days (with many drugs, only 1-2 days needed) to then test "Negative" and get hired! If they DO use drugs or are alcoholics (also a "drug", remember), what do you think they will do with their first paycheck???