Safety Training: Dealing, Drug, Alcohol Abuse Employee Safety Meeting Kit

MARCOM® Industrial Training Kits. This Dealing with Drug and Alcohol Abuse for Employees Safety Meeting Kit explains to employees the various types of substance abuse that are found in the workplace, how they can affect an employee's work situation and what employees themselves can do to help keep their workplace drug and alcohol free. Substance abuse in a huge, worldwide problem. An employee with an alcohol or drug problem can decrease productivity, create a hostile working environment and damage a company's good name. Worst of all, the actions of a worker who is under the influence can completely undermine a company's efforts to keep people safe. Materials in the kit include a DVD program, motivational posters, and 30 employee booklets. The posters in the kit remind employees to help keep there workplace drug and alcohol free. The DVD program and employee booklets include information on how substances are typically abused by employees, alcohol and other depressants, and their effects, stimulants, narcotics and hallucinogens, and their effects, alcohol and drug policies, helping people overcome substance abuse, and more. The video program in the kit comes with a comprehensive leader's guide, reproducible scheduling & attendance form, employee quiz, training certificate and training log.

• Topic: Drug and Alcohol Abuse
• Language: English
• Classification: General Safety & Health
• Length (Minutes) : 19
• Year Produced: 2006
• Publisher: MARCOM Group Ltd.
• Media Type: Kit

In the United States there are over 38 million binge drinkers, almost 25 million illegal drug users and more than 6 million people who abuse prescription drugs... and most of them have jobs. Substance abuse directly affects the user's personality, health and ability to function safely in a workplace. It can also decrease productivity, create a hostile work environment and damage their company's reputation. 

MARCOM's "Dealing with Drug and Alcohol Abuse… for Employees" training products discuss the hazards of substance abuse, how employees can avoid them and what they can do to help keep their workplace drug and alcohol-free. All of the products discuss topics that are integral to employees' understanding of these issues.

Topics covered in these products include:

• Substances that are often abused.
• Alcohol, marijuana and other depressants. 
• Stimulants and narcotics. 
• How people get "hooked".
• Drug dependency.
• Becoming a substance abuser.
• Alcohol and drug policies.
• Overcoming substance abuse.
• and more