Guidelines on developing and implementing workplace drugs and alcohol policies
These guidelines include information on the following:
1. Guidelines for developing Workplace Drugs and Alcohol Policies
- Introduction and Rationale for Drugs and Alcohol Policies
- Getting Started – What a Workplace Drugs and Alcohol Policy Looks Like
2. Issues to be considered in Policy implementation
- Helping Employees who have Problems
- Legal Issues Relating to Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
- Workplace Testing for Drugs and Alcohol
- Alcohol and its Effects
- Illicit Drugs, Prescribed Drugs, Volatile Substances and their Effects
- Sources of Advice and Information
- Appendix: Guidance from the Labour Relations Agency including a management flowchart