Offsite drug screening means that your employees schedule an appointment
at a drug testing laboratory and travel to it in order to be tested. When it comes to pre employment testing, this is a good idea and not very time consuming. However, when it comes to regular employee drug screening and alcohol testing, this can be expensive and time consuming.
What makes it so expensive?
Offsite laboratory testing has to include fees for the overhead costs of testing your employees. Laboratories have to pay for their overhead fees, such as electricity and technicians and equipment maintenance, not to mention extra staff for cleaning and running the front office and running payments and all of that sort of thing. Workplace drug testing can become quite expensive if you add up how often employees are screened and how many employees you have and how high even small overhead charge can be.
Mediscreen utilizes onsite drug and alcohol testing so that you can avoid all of these overhead costs and so that any facility based increases in price are not there. It is, after all, your own facility, so you simply pay your own employees, rather than the employees of a laboratory.
What makes it so time consuming?
Time is consumed when your employees have to take extra time out of work or out of their personal lives, they have to account for traveling to and from the laboratory, and in addition to that, they have to wait in line or in a waiting room at the laboratory. This can all be very time consuming.
Onsite drug and alcohol screening is preferable because it involves testing your employees right there at their jobsite and, after they are screened, they can just return to work right away. Isn’t that easy and simple? Workplace drug testing can be that easy, and it can save you that much time and money. If any of your employees get non-negative results, then their tests are then taken back to the laboratory for retesting and a more thorough examination. That is the only time when an offsite laboratory is involved. For more information about drug testing in Australia, call Mediscreen now: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
