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This Kit discusses:
- What to
do. to prepare the workplace, identify issues, and provide
assistance to your employees
- How to do
it. to understand the legal requirements (that may apply to
your workplace), build a team, assess your workplace, develop a
policy, plan and implement a program, and evaluate the program
- Additional
information. on resources for workplace substance abuse
prevention, including brochures, fact sheets, promotional
materials, and links to other Web sites of interest
Browse around, and use what you can. A drug-free workplace can be
safer, healthier, and more productive. And it is within the reach of
all!
The purpose of this Drug-Free Workplace Kit is to provide public
and private workplaces, from small to large and from local to
global, with credible, authoritative, evidence-based information,
resources, and tools for producing and maintaining drug-free
workplace policies and programs.
The Kit was assembled by the Division of Workplace Programs (DWP),
in the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (often simply SAMHSA elsewhere
in the Kit), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
DWP has unique and nationally important regulatory, knowledge
development, and technical assistance roles and responsibilities for
Federal and non-Federal workplaces, with respect to their drug-free
workplace policies and programs.
For example, DWP is responsible for two principal activities
mandated by Executive Order and Public Law: 1) oversight of the
Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program, which aims to eliminate illicit
drug use in the Federal workplace; and 2) oversight of the National
Laboratory Certification Program, which certifies laboratories to
conduct forensic drug testing for Federal agencies and federally
regulated industries.
To help it meet these two responsibilities, DWP has developed a
variety of resources and techniques for addressing substance abuse
in workplaces, in part through the provision of primary substance
abuse-prevention, early identification, and intervention services
for adult and youthful employees, and for their families and
communities.
DWP has assembled this Kit from the most promising methods,
techniques, and approaches that have been and are being developed
and supported by practitioners, researchers, and evaluators in the
field, including those that are included in SAMHSA's National
Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. Throughout the
Kit there are many citations that have been included for further
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