Alcohol, Drugs, Violence and Obesity in the Workplace
Alcohol, Drugs, Violence and Obesity in the Workplace, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004
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24 questions. Select a question to see its response table. marks a Top 100 question.
- Do you have a written policy, available to employees, regarding employee use of drugs and alcohol?
- If not written, do you have a policy regarding the use of drugs and alcohol by employees that you verbally tell them about when they are hired?
- Do you typically check a potential employee’s background for drug or alcohol abuse prior to hiring him or her?Top 100 question
- In the last three years, have you EVER required one or more employees to take a drug test or a breathalyzer to detect alcohol?Top 100 question
- (circumstances of drug/alcohol test) Did you require such tests following a serious work-related accident?
- (circumstances of drug/alcohol test) Did you require such tests when there was a reasonable suspicion of use?
- (circumstances of drug/alcohol test) Did you require such tests at the time of hiring?
- (circumstances of drug/alcohol test) Did you require such tests for random checks?
- Do you typically conduct these tests because the government requires you to do so, your insurer requires or gives you incentives to do so, or because you believe it is necessary?
- In your business, is employee abuse of alcohol and its consequences a constant concern, an occasional concern, an unusual concern, or never a concern?
- In your business, is employee abuse of drugs, including marijuana, and its consequences a constant concern, an occasional concern, an unusual concern, or never a concern?
- During the last three years, have you or a supervisor needed to counsel, warn, discipline or fire one or more employees for the unauthorized use or abuse of drugs or alcohol?
- Was the problem with alcohol, drugs, or both?
- Was it the first time you took up the problem with the employee, the second time, or more than the second time?
- What best describes the current disposition of the problem? Has the employee been:?
- In the last three years, have one or more of your employees been assaulted or physically accosted while on the job?Top 100 question
- In the last three years, has one or more of your employees assaulted or physically accosted someone else while on the job?
- Do you believe that substantial excess weight, or obesity, among employees is a business issue requiring the active interest of employers, or a personal issue requiring employers to disregard possible employee weight problems? Do you believe that strongly or not so strongly?
- During the last three years, how many of your employees in total have filed a disability or workers’ compensation claim?
- How many of those claims were related to an employee’s substantial excess weight or weight-related condition?
- How many of your current employees do you believe have had their job performance adversely affected by substantial excess weight or a weight-related condition?
- During the last three years, have you changed or reduced job duties for one or more employees due to an employee’s substantial excess weight or weight-related condition?
- Are you very concerned, somewhat concerned, not too concerned, or not at all concerned that substantial excess weight and weight-related health conditions among your employees are driving up your insurance costs?
- Has an insurer talked to you or provided you information about what you as a small employer can do to help your employees minimize weight problems?
About this poll
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004
ISSN 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation
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