More than just offering kindness and a helping hand to any of your employees in distress due to substance abuse, training on how to deal with drug and alcohol substance abuse in the workplace is increasingly becoming a legal requirement for the success of our businesses, our economy and our family life. USA Regulatory Agencies, at Federal and State Levels, have specific sets of rules about both drug and alcohol abuse and misuse in the workplace by employees, and how you, the employer, deals with it.

What this means is that you, as an employer, have a legal obligation, along with any moral obligation you may feel, to accommodate individuals struggling with substance abuse within your organization.

The best way to fulfill this obligation? Start by learning how to deal with an employee’s substance abuse empathetically, effectively and ethically. This is something which can be achieved only with proper training in the tried, tested and trusted techniques in this arena, such as that offered by Waking Up Workplace Trainings.

Waking Up Workplace Trainings offer training courses that can give you, your supervisors, and your managers a solid and comprehensive education on how to empathetically, effectively and lawfully handle substance abuse or misuse in the workplace.

This will allow you and your staff to feel extremely confident in handling this issue if it arises at work.

More than this, it will give you a solid base of information and learning to implement a properly developed company policy that clearly states the consequences to the employee for any drug or alcohol abuse that occurs in the workplace.

At the top level, the course provides an overview of how USA Regulatory Agencies, at Federal and State Levels, treat drug and alcohol abuse and misuse in the workplace. In addition:

1. We help prevent workplace accidents by educating your staff about issues of substance abuse and implementing reasonable cause suspicion training guidelines.
2. We help develop protocols for proper documentation and appropriate discussions with at risk employees that put principles to work in a practical accessible tool kit.
3. As an independent voice with a level of authority that is outside your organization, we are effective at initiating beneficial changes.

By using Waking Up Workplace Trainings as a third-party provider for drug and alcohol awareness training, many issues can be brought up and discussed in a neutral and objective setting. This allows for much more effective implementation of practices and techniques, and much greater acceptance thereof from your employees.

Ultimately, proper training in how to deal with drug and alcohol abuse in the workplaces means that:

• Protocols for dealing with performance mandates can be improved;
• Supervisors can be shown better and additional ways to deal with employees who may be in a vulnerable position; and
• Employees can be educated in the impact substance abuse can have on them and their colleagues, allowing them to accept protocols and understand why it matters.

Finally, given that all our training programs are online in the form of webinars and E-Learning courses, and designed specifically for effective online learning and maximum impact, we can provide your company with the very best training in how to deal with substance abuse in the workplace no matter what your situation or size. Whether you employ 2 or 2,000; whether your employees’ workspace exists in a massive warehouse setting, on-site offices, or a remote, work-from-home situation; whether your offices are in one town or spread across the world at multiple locations; whether you work in the public or private sector, our courses are designed to deliver excellence.