In a high powered professional company environment, it is difficult to even think about such a thing as alcohol breathalyzer testing, but it is something which must be performed, even by top executives in your organization. Just because someone has an important position in your business does not mean that they cannot take their power and turn it into something destructive or self serving or even something which will quickly run the business into the ground.
Company executives, even at the top, are highly susceptible to drugs and alcohol, since they relieve them from the pressures of long hours of hard work, followed by coming home to a less than welcoming spouse who may have missed them and be worried that they will no longer ever spend any time together. The compound result of never having a sanctuary in which to spend time results in the need to escape, and drugs and alcohol are just as readily available as anything else out there.
Professionally speaking, it is by far in your best interest to nab an alcoholic before they behave in a manner which is no longer who they were. When alcohol changes people, it takes away their original personality, and so they are not the person who you think they are now. They are someone else entirely, with only a faint hint of their previous personality and appearance, and their behavior is going to be different and can no longer be predicted. This means that, if your executives have any access to financial accounts, they are more likely to abuse this access rather than use the self restraint and forbearance which they used in the past. You simply and seriously cannot trust an alcoholic.
That bears repeating.
You simply and seriously cannot trust an alcoholic.
If they have a position of power in your business, then take it away from them, through replacing them or requiring that they visit some sort of rehabilitation center. Some companies even have in house employee assistance programs for such occasions. Mediscreen provides drug and alcohol testing to companies all over Australia, and we would love to offer our services to you, too. Call us today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
