{"id":50880,"date":"2014-08-28T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?p=50880"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:59:56","slug":"why-drug-free-workplace-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/why-drug-free-workplace-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why drug free workplace programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230; Why should employers implement drug testing and drug free workplace programs?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several good reasons primarily for the health and safety of your employees, customers and the general public.&nbsp; Drug users do not make good employees.&nbsp; Many employers think they know all their employees and they could not possibly be using drugs.&nbsp; This is the far from the truth, consider these facts:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or older were current illicit drug users<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This represents 9.2 percent of the population aged 12 or older, folks who have jobs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drug users steal, are less productive, cause accidents, are late, are absent and have high turnover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Employee morale increases when the drug users are weeded out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A positive drug test after an employee accident may allow you to deny a workers comp claim, this can save your company and the insurance company both a lot of money&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Act now to provide a safe and productive workforce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Why should employers implement drug testing and drug free workplace programs? There are several good reasons primarily for the health and safety of your employees, customers and the general public.&nbsp; Drug users do not make good employees.&nbsp; Many employers think they know all their employees and they could not possibly be using drugs.&nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":51707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"50870,50858,50868,51391,50901,51149","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}