You have a responsibility as an employer to provide a safe working environment at all times. This means training your employees in safety procedures and scheduling fitness for duty examinations for each new hire. You will also need an additional examination before an employee returns to work after an accident. The examination evaluates whether the employee is up to the job, and confirms that he or she can meet all of the job’s physical requirements without risking injury to themselves or to others.

There’s nothing like making a great new hire, and with our current labor shortages we need to put our new personnel into the field right away. All companies hire people based on the quality of their minds, but in some professions they also need to make sure that they’re physically up to the job! Many professions in the transportation industry require physicals for insurance purposes, and pre-employment health screenings will also help you lower your worker’s compensation premiums!

Every time that you make a new hire, you’re taking a chance. They have a good resume and the right references, but are you sure that’s enough? Resumes are often only an idealized image of peoples’ careers, and you should often be more concerned about what isn’t on them than what is. And a drug testing program has its value, but there are some serious criminals who don’t use illegal controlled substances at all. That’s why it’s a good idea to dig a little bit deeper before you hire someone and put them in charge of your company resources. That’s where we come in!

Random workplace drug testing might seem a little distasteful to us. After all, we hire good people and expect them to succeed. They also have a right to privacy after working hours. Unfortunately, illegal drug use isn’t just limited to sketchy people who look the part. The specter of drug abuse is so deeply systematic that we’re virtually powerless to stop it. Whatever the case may be, we still have a fiduciary duty to protect our employees and our stakeholders.