Workplace Case Studies
Pre-Employment Testing (Long-Term Care Industry)
The company’s goal is to provide nursing home residents with the best care possible, by hiring only the highest quality employees. Management at the nursing home felt that it had become the “employer of choice for drug users in the area,” and was concerned about employees’ access to the residents narcotics, especially considering the high risk for abuse of these substances. The nursing home wanted to implement the most effective and robust pre-employment drug testing program available, to improve employee and resident safety by creating a drug-free environment.
Random Testing (Manufacturing Industry)
To achieve its safety goals, the company implemented a Psychemedics hair drug testing program to screen job applicants for drug use. After seeing significant value in the Psychemedics pre-employment hair testing program, and realizing what a positive impact an even more robust program could bring, this automotive manufacturer added a random testing program for the current workforce utilizing the same hair test.
Hair Testing Vs. Urinalysis (Transportation Industry)
As a U.S. motor carrier, this company conducts urinalysis drug tests in accordance with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations in order to satisfy federal testing requirements. However, a series of events led the company to believe that urinalysis alone was not working: First there were reports of drug use in some shops, then there were two unfortunate crashes where their drivers were involved in accidents that claimed three lives. Both drivers had clean records, but both tested positive at the scene for cocaine. All DOT required (urinalysis) tests had been conducted and it was concluded that these drivers were likely substituting their urine samples. These incidents caused this company to look for a more effective, reliable drug test.
This Trucker Is Driving Toward The Drug-Free Cab
KLLM is a trucking and transportation firm that has long screened prospective drivers with the mandatory DOT urine test during the application process. But they wanted to take their due diligence a step farther in moving toward a fleet that was completely drug-free. As a member of the Trucking Alliance, whose mission is to advance safety reforms that can achieve zero large truck crash fatalities, KLLM has long recognized that a drug-free fleet is a safer fleet. The company also recognized that hiring drug-free was the first step toward a drug-free fleet. And the bonus for them? They found that hair testing actually improved their recruiting efficiencies.
Shaping Lives and Ensuring Futures
Developing strong leaders With biblical convictions for more than twenty years, Legacy Christian Academy enjoys a reputation for Christian education excellence. But with an evolved drug culture that has moved from street dealers to online ordering and discrete delivery, teens have access like never before; and often peer pressure to raise the ante. Like other faith-based schools, Legacy makes a concerted effort to keep its student population drugs, nicotine and alcohol free.
Contractor Testing (Oil & Gas Industry)
In an industry where safety is paramount, one refinery led the charge with an innovative drug testing program. For employers, especially with workers in safety-sensitive positions, it is critical to identify and screen out illicit drug users. The Company pioneered a hair drug testing program that required contractors working in the refinery to pass a drug test before they could enter the plant. The refinery had already seen the impact that the Psychemedics hair drug testing program had on its employees, and extended this added safety measure to the thousands of contractors accessing the site.
Education Case Studies
This Fraternity Avoided A Shutdown
One of the premier organizations at the University, and among the strongest and most heralded chapters within the national fraternity, this house has been a prominent part of the University’s traditions and heritage of its University for nine decades. After the chapter experienced serious drug issues, the national fraternity considered a temporary closure to eliminate the problem. Determined to keep the chapter active and create a model to rid the fraternity of drug use, they instead decided to implement and enforce a zero-tolerance drug policy.
Creating A Drug-Free Chapter House
The University gave a mandate to a number of Greek organizations on campus to combat their declining image and get back to their founding values of academic achievement and service. After the University recommended that the fraternities implement a drug testing policy for its members, most of the organizations chose to implement urinalysis testing – a test with minimal detection capabilities, and that is susceptible to many well known cheating tactics. One fraternity chose to go above and beyond by implementing a more rigorous drug testing program using Psychemedics hair testing, resulting in a thorough clean up of its chapters substance abuse problems and providing a real deterrent to drug use among its brothers.
Student Health & Wellness Are This Program’s Pillars
Since 1926, The Lovett School offers parents and its 1,650 students from kindergarten to grade 12 a campus experience that focuses on developing the whole child. With a culture rooted in learning, character, and community, illegal drug use is simply unacceptable within the school’s enduring culture. This case study details how the school and parents shield its students from substance abuse with a proactive approach rooted in detection, deterrence and collaborative engagement.