When you are looking over your employee turnaround numbers, be sure and take into account all of the money required to let someone go, give them any severance if that is due, and then the cost of having other employees do overtime while you find a replacement. On top of that, there is the cost of training an employee before they can actually begin bringing value to your company as a whole.
Truly, it is more important to hire the right employee in the first place, and hold onto them, then it is to bring want and destruction upon your company’s financial statement. For instance, if you simply had very low employee turnaround and very loyal workers who value their jobs, then you have the recipe for success and it becomes profitable to think of drug and alcohol testing as being one of your company’s assets, in addition to being an expenditure.
Drug testing in Australia is meant to be helpful and to lead to only hiring the best employees. However, a lot of businesses only use it on an ad-hoc basis, but not necessarily as part of their initial hiring procedures. That is, of course, not very good. And many businesses which do use onsite drug and alcohol screening find it extremely cost effective to use screening in hiring employees, because it indicates how much they can initially trust an employee to hold up their end of the employer-employee relationship. In fact, there are many reasons to retain people who are able to maintain this relationship, because loyalty and faithfulness is inherently within them.
That is a powerful asset to have on your workforce.
Truly, Mediscreen is accredited by NATA for onsite drug testing because we have skill in our areas of expertise. Workplace drug testing does not have to be a big deal with a lot of turnings and winding roads. It can just be a simple, basic recipe for success which all businesses should use, especially when their employee turnover rates are higher than normal. In order to implement onsite drug and alcohol testing, feel free to give us here at Mediscreen a call today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
