LEGAL BRIEFS: Substance Abuse: The Manager's Role in Creating and Maintaining a Drug-Free Workplace

This program teaches five main areas managers need to pay attention to when dealing with substance issues in the workplace:

• Detection.
• Intervention.
• Staying Focused on the Issue.
• Appropriate Action.
• Substance Abuse Testing.

Key Learning Points:

• The importance of the manager's responsibility to understand and communicate the organization's policies on substance use or abuse in the workplace.
• Five main aspects of dealing with substance abuse in the workplace.
• Three action steps that managers can take to help keep the organization drug-free and out of court.

About the Program:

This program is designed to help you gain a clearer understanding of a manager's responsibility regarding enforcing and maintaining a drug-free workplace. It provides answers to several of the most common questions managers struggle with, including:

• Do you need to be absolutely sure a person is using drugs or alcohol before you confront them about his or her behavior?
• When addressing performance issues with someone you suspect is using drugs or alcohol on the job, do you communicate these suspicions directly to the individual?
• If you confront the employee and they start crying or get angry, what do you do?
• As a manager, is it my job to diagnose and counsel an employee with a suspected substance abuse problem?
• Can we just spring a drug test on an employee we suspect has a substance abuse problem?

Package Includes:

17 minute video, Facilitator Guide, and participant's Desk Reference

The Complete Employment Law Package includes:

1: Legal Briefs: The Americans With Disabilities Act
2: Legal Briefs: Recruiting & Hiring
3: Legal Briefs: Harassment & Discrimination
4: Legal Briefs: Discipline & Termination
5: Legal Briefs: The Family and Medical Leave Act
6: Legal Briefs: Workplace Violence: A Legal Role
7: Legal Briefs: Substance Abuse
8: Legal Briefs: Workplace Privacy

The Legal Briefs Series is The most unique, practical, easy-to-use, employment law training available today. Why? Instead of The usual mind-numbing "legal speak" and "information dump", each title focuses on a specific law, identifies The most common issues and potholes managers and organizations face-and presents easily understood, legally accurate answers and actions your managers can implement immediately.

Key Learning Points:

• Harassment and discrimination hurt everyone
• Which behaviors now contribute to a hostile work environment
• The areas in which people and organizations cannot discriminate
• When harassment can become discrimination, or "tangible employment action" and The implications of those

Using dramatic examples in white and blue collar, hospitality, health care, and retail settings, this video will protect your organization by communicating everyone's legal responsibilities and is for training on diversity as well.

Format: Video
Length: 14 mins.
Additional Materials:
Facilitator Guide
Reproducible Participant Handouts
Reproducible Self-Study Workbook