By Nardia Vescovi-Diss Having gone through the suggestions in our previous blogs, having a clear policy, having those first difficult conversations, perhaps invoking your drug testing policy, you now know that your employee has a problem with drugs. So where to from here? You understand that supporting and promoting employee health and wellbeing is not […]
By Nardia Vescovi-Diss Great work, you’ve got your policies and procedures in place regarding Drugs and Alcohol, you’re taking a preventative approach and building it into your recruitment and wellbeing strategies, and all of your team have signed off that they understand the policy, all sorted! And then, one of your Managers calls to say […]
by Nardia Vescovi-Diss OK, so you’ve decided that it’s time to make sure that you’ve got your Work Health & Safety (WH&S) obligations covered, your WH&S policy is sorted, safety officers are in place, someone’s been trained in first aid, fire and emergency evacuation, you’ve got your Workcover insurance, even an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), […]
by Nardia Vescovi-Diss Unless you’ve been somewhere with no access to the outside world over the past few years, you will be aware that drugs in our society are an escalating issue. There is still a perception held by some people that the issues are limited to certain ‘sections’ of society, either geographically, culturally or […]
A survey released today makes for alarming reading, especially if you happen to be a blue collar small business owner with employees under your ‘duty of care’ and are either oblivious or feel powerless about what drugs your employees may be taking in the workplace. To clarify what ‘duty of care’ means – you as a […]