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Why You Should Consider Reasonable Suspicion Training
The number one reason is safety. By stopping an impaired employee from driving a vehicle or operating machinery, you may prevent accidents that cause permanent harm to the worker and others. The employee may enter treatment and recover from alcoholism or drug addiction The key is to acquire knowledge and gain awareness. If you know what to look for and what to do, you can proceed with confidence and provide potentially life-saving support.
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Daniel A. Feerst, LISW-CP
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What Reasonable Suspicion Training is Designed to Do
Reasonable suspicion training is not designed to teach supervisors how to diagnose alcoholism or drug addiction with those supervised. (Trainer discusses rationale for this disclaimer.)
Reasonable suspicion training is however, designed to arm supervisors with information necessary to increase awareness about troubled employee behaviors and help supervisors avoid mismanagement of employees who may have alcohol or drug problems overtly displayed or completely unrecognized.
Since supervisors monitor performance, they can ideally be part of an early warning system for spotting performance problems that could be due alcohol or drug use. The rationale is found in this truth.
Reasonable Suspicion Training Contents
Information about the disease concept of alcoholism and drug addiction; impact workplace substance abuse; common myths and misconceptions; about tolerance and cross tolerance; understanding loss of control, denial, avoiding armchair diagnosing, stopping enabling. Also included are pictures of licit and illicit drugs from major categories, signs and symptoms, and principles of constructive confrontation.
Most supervisors have misinformation about alcoholism and drug addiction, and how to work with a reasonable suspicion training project.
This misinformation gets in the way of effectively responding to troubled employees, who can easily explain away and postpone confrontation as a result of their increasingly, well-practiced defensive mechanisms. Without training and a set of guiding principles for managing troubled employees with alcohol and drug problems, supervisors are unwittingly outmatched.
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Who Is Using this Reasonable Suspicion Training
- National Airport/Dulles Airport Authority
- State of West Virginia Department of Transportation
- State of Kansas DOT Training Contractor
- Washington State Airports Authority
- City of Houston, Texas
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"This reasonable suspicion training program for supervisors was easy for me to modify to meet my needs today--exactly what I was looking for. I needed to develop a course quickly, but
I didn't want to kill myself doing it. The content was well developed and broad enough that I could adjust the run time by dropping a few slides rather than
having to add slides to make it longer. Thanks!"
Cliff McPherson,
Panhandle Energy,
Houston, TX
"We have just received and reviewed the Reasonable Suspicion Training program and once again you have produced an excellent product. We would like to keep it."
Joan McRonald,
Employee Assistance
WorkExcel.com has conscientiously developed software programs of superior quality featuring color graphics, and relevant information. Dan Feerst's (the publisher) programs are user friendly and address all of our training needs.
David Hugo,
David Hugo and Associates
Broadalbin, New York
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