Click here to see a 10 minute Drug Free Workplace Training Click here for the most recent report on drug use in Georgia. Scroll down for five easy steps to becoming a State Certified Drug Free Workplace and qualifying for the state mandated 7.5% discount on workers compensation insurance. If your company is already certified, we will help you maintain compliance and re-certify each year. Your $150 membership fee meets all five certification and re-certification requirements of Georgia law and includes (click here to subscribe to the monthly employee education training newsletter [required by Georgia law], and take advantage of all these benefits of membership):
Your membership helps our 40-year-old, 501(c) 3 nonprofit agency to prevent drug abuse among Georgia’s children. Click here to join the Council’s Drug-Free Workplace program and subscribe to the Drug-Free Workplace monthly Employee Education training newsletter. Please note: We also offer Supervisor Training newsletters and Spanish Employee version newsletters. These monthly newsletters are the most cost-effective way to meet your drug-free workplace training requirements. In-person presentations and videotape training require that employees stop work to attend training resulting in loss of payroll and loss of productivity. Monthly newsletters solve this problem and save your company thousands of training dollars. Step 1: SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY Your company must have a substance abuse policy in place that meets all requirements of Georgia law. We email you with the state recommended ‘fill-in-the-blank’ policy in English and Spanish. Simply print the policy on company letterhead and hand it out to all employees. If you have any legal questions regarding the substance abuse policy, we have a labor law attorney on retainer who will answer your questions at no charge. Sample letters and forms are included in the policy. These should also be printed on company letterhead. The Council on Alcohol and Drugs, Drugs Don’t Work, your local Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation disclaim any responsibility for the implementation of these policies. All employers are advised to seek legal counsel prior to implementing substance abuse policies.
You must conduct the first hour of supervisor training prior to applying for your state certificate. The first hour of supervisor training should include a discussion of how to enforce the new company substance abuse policy along with viewing one of our supervisor training videos or DVDs. We will assist you in selecting an appropriate video or DVD for supervisor training. The second hour of supervisor training must be conducted within 6 months. The second hour of supervisor training may be completed by selecting another video/DVD from our video library list, or by subscribing to our Supervisor Training Newsletters. Click here to download a sample supervisor newsletter.
You must conduct two hours of employee education in the first year of certification. Our monthly Employee Education Newsletter, the official newsletter of Georgia’s Drug-Free Workplace program, is the most cost-effective means of meeting this annual training requirement and is included in your membership fee. Distributing the newsletter to employees once a month meets the two hour employee education requirement for the first year, and each year thereafter. The Employee Education Newsletters are emailed to you on a monthly basis. We suggest they be attached to your employee’s paychecks, but how you distribute them is up to you. Drug education is appropriate and critically important to an employer’s overall efforts to prevent drug abuse in the workplace and protect workers. Drug education received at work can be taken home and shared with the employee’s children to help keep them drug and alcohol free. Click here to download a sample Employee Education newsletter (also available in Spanish).
You must conduct pre-employment, reasonable suspicion (for cause) post rehab and post accident drug testing.
We also offer member discounted pricing on the new On-Site® OraLab® drug test kits. These clean, efficient drug tests detect within 10 minutes at the job site up to 6 drugs of abuse including marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamine, methamphetamine and phencyclidine. If the rapid test is negative, the testing is complete. Please call Leanne for more information. Step 5: EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP) OR RESOURCE FILE Certified drug-free workplaces must provide either an EAP (Employee Assistance Program), or a resource list of treatment and counseling centers in their area.
Also included in your membership package you will find a CD/ROM containing a database of all treatment and counseling centers in Georgia. Select your county name from the drop-down menu to access the list for your area. This list should be printed out and posted in an appropriate and conspicuous location. After completing the aforementioned 5 steps required for certification, we will assist you in applying or reapplying for certification online. THE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL AND DRUGS, ALONG WITH THE DRUGS DON’T WORK IN GEORGIA PROGRAM, ARE DEDICATED TO EDUCATING EMPLOYERS, EMPLOYEES AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE ABOUT: (1) the dangers of substance abuse, especially the abuse of illicit drugs; (2) the impact of such abuse on the workplace; (3) the most appropriate, effective and legally accepted means for employers to address their substance abuse in the workplace problems; (4) the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees; (5) the status of legislative, regulatory and legal developments at the state level, and; (6) the very legitimate and necessary - role of employers in our national effort to combat drug abuse. The Council on Alcohol and Drugs recognizes the threat of drug abuse in the workplace. Among other consequences, drug and alcohol abuse decreases productivity and increases accidents, absenteeism, product defects, medical and insurance costs, and employee theft. Employers and employees have a large stake and legitimate role to play in the "war on drugs." To become a member of The Council on Alcohol and Drugs' Drug Free Workplace Program and qualify for the state mandated 7.5% discount on your workers' compensation premiums, click here. Your membership helps our 40-year-old nonprofit agency to provide drug prevention programs to Georgia's children. Leanne Mulherin The Council on Alcohol and Drugs, Inc. Georgia’s Leading Drug Free Workplace Provider 233 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 2000 Email:
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