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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?
In the last three years, have you EVER required one or more employees to take a drug test or a breathalyzer to detect alcohol?
(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?
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?
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation