UK Companies 'Should Screen Staff for Alcohol to Identify Abuse'

[Northerner]

UK companies should introduce alcohol testing to prevent harm to workers and reduce sickness costs, an article in a leading medical journal has argued.

According to Don Shenker, the director and founder of Alcohol Health Network, workers should take a standardised test which identifies whether or not they are abusing alcohol.

The campaigner wrote in the British Medical Journal that identifying alcoholism in employees could prevent alcohol-related harm and sickness costs as well as lost days of work to hangovers.

"Offering staff confidential use of the alcohol use disorders identification test and brief advice as a self-awareness initiative at work, whether through face-to-face interactions or leaflets, may well help prevent problems with alcohol at an earlier stage," said Shenker.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/5...-medical-journal-alcohol-bmj-research-nhs.htm

 

[AlisonM]

What is this, a totalitarian state?

 

[Vicsetter]

Just done the test, here:http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/interactivetests/alcoholdrinking.php

You would have to be a muppet or drunk to fail.

It reminds me of our staff canteen, the management mess had free alcohol until the MD decided the site would be alcohol free. Fair enough but after withdrawing all alcohol the directors went across the road to the pub instead.