Drug & Alcohol Regimes for business

How well do you know your employees?

It’s the responsibility of every business to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of its staff whilst they’re in your workplace. But what happens if employees are under the influence of drugs or alcohol? Worse still, what if, as a business, you’re not even aware of it?

Not only that, but how do you ensure that they’re not putting the safety, and lives, of themselves, their colleagues, and your business at risk? If your business isn’t meeting its duty of care obligations to your employees, you leave your business liable to a myriad of legal issues.

Book a free consultation with Screening On Site. Our professional team will review your current Drug & Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP), or we’ll write a comprehensive policy for your business that will safeguard it against legal ramifications.

Individual Testing

Are you safe to go to work?

Don’t put the lives of your workmates at risk. If you’ve been using illicit drugs or alcohol, booking a confidential drug and alcohol screening test at home will take the uncertainty out of knowing whether you’re safe to go to work.

Because if you go to work with drugs and alcohol in your system, you’re not just putting your safety at risk. Impaired judgment and lower concentration levels are the causes of accidents, near-misses, and in some cases, deaths. Why take that risk?

5 years Jail,
$600,000 or Both

PCBU Category 1 offence if unable to show how they provide, monitor and maintain a safe work environment under the WHS Act.

No Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP),
No excuse.

PCBU- Person Conducting A Business or Undertaking

$6 billion

Cost to businesses across Australia for accidents.

1 in 4 accidents, someone attributed to being under the influence of drugs and / or alcohol

5 years Jail, $300,000 or
Both

Worker Category 1 offence for a deliberate breach of the WHS Act and placing someone at significant risk or causing harm.

Being under the influence of illicit substances at work meets this criteria for a breach.

Drug & Alcohol Policies

Safeguard your business against legal ramifications

A comprehensive policy puts in writing the rules and expectations of your business regarding drugs and alcohol in the workplace. Not having a comprehensive DAMP in place can leave your business liable. Stop unfair dismissal claims by affected employees. Meet Duty Of Care obligations, so your business can show it has done what is “reasonably practicable” under the WHS Act 2012 to provide a safe work environment.

Don’t leave it too late. Book your free consultation.

Book a free consultation with Screening On Site. Our professional team will review your current Drug & Alcohol Management Plan, or we’ll write a comprehensive policy for your business that will safeguard it against legal ramifications.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding drug and alcohol testing and policies.

Does Screening On Site do pre-employment screening?

Yes. We also offer pre-deployment, blanket or random testing, post-incident, and reasonable suspicion screening following an incident, accident, or near-miss.

How do you test for drugs and alcohol?

Six-panel oral fluid or urine testing kits are used for illicit drug testing. If a positive result is returned, conforming to the Australian Standards cut-off levels, the results are forwarded to NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities) approved laboratory for clinical confirmation. 

To test for alcohol, Breath Alcohol Concentration (BrAC) screening is undertaken with calibrated equipment that adheres to Australian Standards.

What standards does Screening on Site adhere to?

Oral fluid testing: AS4760:2019

Urine testing: AS4308:2008

Breath Alcohol Concentration: AS3547:1997

Will our business be provided with your findings?

Yes. Screening On Site supplies results for all tests. Compare one site or department to another, the types of drugs found in the workplace to align with tracking lost-time injury rates, breakages, absenteeism, declining or increasing substance abuse and incidents in the workplace. 

Is your business a safe, drug and alcohol-free workplace?

How well do you know your employees?

Are you safe to go to work?

5 years Jail,
$600,000 or Both

PCBU Category 1 offence if unable to show how they provide, monitor and maintain a safe work environment under the WHS Act.

No Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP),
No excuse.

PCBU- Person Conducting A Business or Undertaking

$6 billion

5 years Jail, $300,000 or
Both

Worker Category 1 offence for a deliberate breach of the WHS Act and placing someone at significant risk or causing harm.

Being under the influence of illicit substances at work meets this criteria for a breach.

Safeguard your business against legal ramifications

Don’t leave it too late. Book your free consultation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you afford to spend 5+ days in isolation?

Is your business a safe, drug and alcohol-free workplace?

How well do you know your employees?

Are you safe to go to work?

5 years Jail,$600,000 or Both

PCBU Category 1 offence if unable to show how they provide, monitor and maintain a safe work environment under the WHS Act.No Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP), No excuse.PCBU- Person Conducting A Business or Undertaking

$6 billion

5 years Jail, $300,000 or Both

Worker Category 1 offence for a deliberate breach of the WHS Act and placing someone at significant risk or causing harm.Being under the influence of illicit substances at work meets this criteria for a breach.

Safeguard your business against legal ramifications

Don’t leave it too late. Book your free consultation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you afford to spend 5+ days in isolation?

5 years Jail,
$600,000 or Both

PCBU Category 1 offence if unable to show how they provide, monitor and maintain a safe work environment under the WHS Act.

No Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP),
No excuse.

PCBU- Person Conducting A Business or Undertaking

5 years Jail, $300,000 or
Both

Worker Category 1 offence for a deliberate breach of the WHS Act and placing someone at significant risk or causing harm.

Being under the influence of illicit substances at work meets this criteria for a breach.