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Articles by Connor Deith
alcohol harm | alcohol education | alcohol awareness at work | alcohol culture work
“Just have a drink!” The UK has long held the reputation for being a nation of boozers. From the ubiquitous lunchtime pint, the ‘90s work hard, play hard mentality and, more lately, the mummy wine memes on social media, it’s impossible to avoid soaking up alcohol marketing messages that tell us we need alcohol to de-stress, that we deserve a drink at the end of the working day, and that alcohol is a treat to look forward to.
alcohol testing at work |
Over recent years, there has been a gradual escalation in reports of substance use, whether drugs or alcohol, which has a clear effect on employee safety in the workplace. Publicity of this trend was at its height during the pandemic, but the problem hasn’t gone away and furthermore there is evidence to suggest that mental health – a condition which according to the charity Mind, affects one in four each year in the UK – and substance abuse may be linked.
Drug and alcohol testing
One way or another, we all have to deal with risks in the workplace. Whether these risks are trivial at best or potentially life-threatening, a crucial element to ensuring a safe working environment and helping to limit the potential for risks is having a comprehensive policy for drug and alcohol testing.
The Great Terror of 2016
Connor Deith reflects on the events that have shaken the world so far in 2016 The last thing I expected to be doing at 07:00AM on what had been a long Tuesday evening that had transitioned all too swiftly into a gloomy Wednesday morning was watching the world reach its inevitable doom. I had in fact, rather unknowingly, witnessed the beginning of the end.
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