Should You Drug Test Your Employees?

Your business relies on the productivity and sensible decision making of your employees to survive, your employees rely on each other to ensure that their jobs are safe. Your investors rely on your profits for their own business, your suppliers rely on your profits.  A healthy employee is a productive one, and a drug-using employee is an unhealthy one. Drug testing at work is becoming more and more common, especially since the financial crisis, but it really is a policy which employees should not have any complaints about. If they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to fear, just so long as you don't harass or pick on individuals. If you haven't already started drug testing your employees then now may be the time to start. Whether you seek to help your employee overcome their problem and give them another chance, or decide to sack them instantly, is left entirely up to you or your human resources department.

There are numerous different types of drug testing kit on the market, including urine tests, blood tests, and hair tests. The only two which will be considered acceptable to use on your employees are the hair tests and urine tests. Drug testing kits are most affordable on Amazon, where you can purchase individual kits or large multi-pack kits, the quantity that you buy will depend of course on whether you want to test every employee in a department or company, or just an individual who you suspect may be using. Urine tests are by far the most cost effective, to the right you will see links to buy multi-drug urine tests at highly affordable prices, below you will see links to the more expensive hair follicle test kits. 

If you are concerned about the legality of drug testing your employees, want more information about best practices for managers (how to approach the process), or want more information about how drug testing works, then you may be best served first reading this excellent guide for employers and employees.