Drug & Alcohol Awareness Programme

Channah has developed a pro-active drug and alcohol awareness and education programme for businesses, corporations, and schools. This is currently being delivered to one of the largest aviation companies in SE Asia. Many businesses spend a great deal of their budget, training and recruiting employees. It can sometimes be a huge loss to the company, in financial outlay and morale, if there is a need to terminate the employee due to a failed drug or alcohol test. Unfortunately most companies feel there is little choice. In high risk environments such as aviation, oil and gas, mining, etc. many companies have to have a zero tolerance policy on failed drug and alcohol tests.

In response, Channah has developed several seminars to offer to corporations for the specific needs of your business. Due to the experience of the staff at Channah it is possible to put a tailor made programme together for the needs of you company. Generally the process starts with a meeting between Channah’s team and the companies health and safety or human resources department to evaluate your needs and decide on a plan of action.

Drug and Alcohol Awareness, Training and Consultancy

Channah offers a wide range of cost effective drugs and alcohol awareness training courses and implementation services for employers.

All of our training and consultancy services are tailored specifically to your needs, but our most common training services are as follows:

Drug and alcohol awareness training course / seminar:

2 hour staff briefings, half or full day training for managers or two day workshops for your in-house trainers to cascade training down throughout your workforce.

One or two day workshops for managers to consider all of the key issues relating to the development of their drugs and alcohol policy.

Drug and alcohol awareness training for companies:

Substance misuse has been proven to increase accidents, ill health, absenteeism and to reduce productivity which costs companies like yours huge amounts of money every year. To help employers combat this, Channah is pleased to offer an easy, cost effective means of raising drug awareness.

In order to combat drug and alcohol misuse in the workplace, it is necessary to raise awareness amongst managers, supervisors and staff, arming yourselves with the knowledge necessary to tackle this problem and create a safer, happier, substance-free working environment.

How substance abuse affects a company.

Which substances are abused / misused and important information about them.

Interesting and informative facts about recognizing the effects, signs and symptoms of drug misuse.

How to recognize the paraphernalia associated with drug use.

Interesting and informative facts about recognizing the effects, signs and symptoms of drug misuse..

Drug screening in the workplace and the surrounding issues.

Even though many companies believe they are free of substance misuse in the workplace, studies show that over 55% of UK companies already have a drugs and alcohol policy in place.

The Health and Safety Executive recommend implementing an agreed written policy regarding substance misuse, and to have systems in place to tackle this problem if or when it arises. Such measures have been proven to save companies a considerable amount of money every year by reducing accidents, ill health, absenteeism and by raising employee morale and improving productivity.

Substance misuse is rarely immediately evident, and yet it permeates every workforce. Perhaps surprisingly, 1 in 25 people, the majority of whom are employed, have a problem with alcohol dependency. 40% of the workforce under 40 years of age (and 45% of those aged between 16 and 29) have experimented with illicit drugs. And 25% of those seeking help for drug problems are in employment.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reports that 10% of the typical workforce has a drug or alcohol problem. On this basis, a company without a system in place clearly has an unrecognized problem which will be costing it money and putting its employees at risk.

So what can I do?

Invest in Drug and Alcohol awareness training specially tailored to the needs of your staff. Contact us today to set up a meeting and discuss the needs of your company, we will then put together a tailor made proposal for you.

The second step is to schedule the time for the training of your staff, we prefer to work in small groups to encourage two way dialog with your staff.

The programmes can include drug and alcohol awareness lectures to staff as well as separate training programmes for senior managers on identifying potential problems with staff before they become a possible health and safety issue.  The programmes can also include regular training as well as treatment for problem or potential problem staff. Channah operates on the premise that each company is different and therefore their drug and alcohol awareness programme needs to be suitable for them.

If you wish to receive more information on any aspect of achieving a substance free workplace, please contact us now.

The cost savings to companies of implementing drug and alcohol awareness training are undeniable with many large corporations saving hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. Even smaller companies have reported saving a considerable amount on Workers Compensation claims, lower absenteeism, reduced recruitment and training costs due to less employee turnover, and higher productivity, shortly after implementing drug and alcohol awareness and treatment policies. It is not good enough to just to write a policy, it requires actual attainable goals and transparent action on the management’s part.

Channah is offering this service globally in English and Thai, there is a possibility of other languages through translators.

Up to 40% of industrial fatalities and 47% of industrial injuries can be linked to alcohol consumption and alcoholism (M Bernstein & JJ Mahoney, "Management Perspectives on Alcoholism: The Employer's Stake in Alcoholism Treatment," Occupational Medicine, Vol 4, No. 2, 1989, pp. 223-232).

60% of alcohol-related work performance problems can be attributed to employees who are not alcohol dependent, but who occasionally drink too much on a work night or drink during a weekday lunch (TW Mangione, et. al, "New Perspectives for Worksite Alcohol Strategies: Results from a Corporate Drinking Study," JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, 12/98, p. 1).

21% of workers reported being injured or put in danger, having to re-do work or to cover for a co-worker, or needing to work harder due to others' drinking (Ibid, p. 2).

63% of firms responding to a 1991 survey were engaged in some sort of drug testing, a 200% increase since 1987 (American Management Association {AMA} Research Reports, E Greenberg, ed., "1991 AMA Survey on Workplace Drug Testing and Drug Abuse Policies," p. 1).

Absenteeism among alcoholics or problem drinkers is 3.8 to 8.3 times greater than normal (Bernstein & Mahoney, op. cit.) and up to 16 times greater among all employees with alcohol and other drug-related problems (US Department of Labor {USDL}, What Works: Workplaces Without Drugs, 8/90, p. 3).

Drug-using employees take three times as many sick benefits as other workers. They are five times more likely to file a worker's compensation claim (TE Backer, Strategic Planning for Workplace Drug Abuse Programs, NIDA, 1987, p. 4).

43% of CEOs responding to one survey estimated that use of alcohol and other drugs cost them 1% to 10% of payroll (National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers {NAATP}, "Treatment Is the Answer: A White Paper on the Cost Effectiveness of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Treatment, 3/91, p. 1).

For every dollar they invest in an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), employers generally save anywhere from $5 to $16. The average annual cost for an EAP ranges from $12 to $20 per employee (US Department of Labor {USDL}, op.cit., p. 17).

General Motors Corporation's EAP saves the company $37 million per year -- $3,700 for each of the 10,000 employees enrolled in the program (ASIS OP Norton Information Resources Center, Substance Abuse: A Guide to Workplace Issues, 8/90, p. 23).

United Airlines estimates that it has a $16.95 return for every dollar invested in employee assistance (Ibid.).

Northrop Corporation saw a 43% increase in the productivity of each of its first 100 employees to enter an alcohol treatment program. After three years' sobriety, the average savings for each was nearly $20,000 (D Campbell & M Graham, Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace: A Guide for Managers, New York: Facts on File Publications, 1988).

Philadelphia Police Department employees undergoing treatment reduced their sick days by an average of 38% and their injured days by 62% (Ibid.).

Oldsmobile's Lansing, Michigan plant saw the following results in the year after it’s Alcoholic employees underwent treatment: lost man-hours declined by 49%, health care benefits by 29%, leaves by 56%, grievances by 78%, disciplinary problems by 63% and accidents by 82% (Ibid.).