How do drugs and alcohol affect the workplace?

If employees misuse drugs and alcohol, it can have a huge impact on a company’s productivity, performance, profitability and reputation.

Making sure problems are identified quickly gives employers the power to support their people and resolve the situation fast. Medi-Test is here to help.

  • 17 million working days a year are lost due to drink or drug-related issues
  • Alcohol-related absence costs business £2 billion per year
  • Alcohol is involved in over 20% of industrial accidents
  • Drug misusers are 3.5 times more likely to injure themselves or someone else at work
  • Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, employers are breaking the law if they knowingly allow illegal substance-related activity to take place on their premises and don’t act