Workplace Resources

Websites

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention - Workplace Helpline

1-800-967-5752. Technical assistance to employers. Information and Referral. English and Spanish

Provides centralized access to information about drug-free workplaces, drug testing, Federal programs, prevention applications, and substance abuse. Comprehensive links to resources. Drug-Free Workplace Kit, available online, provides credible, authoritative, evidence-based information, resources, and tools for producing and maintaining drug-free workplace policies and programs.

Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace

U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) site to help small businesses maintain safe, healthy, and productive workplaces by offering quality substance abuse prevention information. Information on laws and regulations, statistics, searchable database of materials relating to workplace substance abuse issues. Drug-Free Workplace Advisor assists users to build tailored drug-free workplace policies and provides guidance on how to develop comprehensive drug-free workplace programs.

Parents@Work: Tools for Reaching Working Parents (The Anti-Drug)

Access to drug prevention materials employers can use to assist parents in the workplace. Multicultural Resources.

Publications for the Workplace

NCADI site. Order workplace-related publications.

Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems

Ensuring Solutions is working with business leaders, policy makers, and concerned citizens to reduce the cost of alcohol problems. The Alcohol Cost Calculator computes just how much alcohol is costing your business. Fact sheets, research briefs, advocacy tools.

Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA)

DATIA represents the entire spectrum of drug and alcohol service providers including collection sites, laboratories, consortiums/TPAs, MROs, and testing equipment manufacturers.

Partnership for a Healthy Workforce

Engages the business community in improving employee health and productivity. Partnerships for a Healthy Workforce seeks strengthened corporate involvement in the national health goals.

Workplace Violence, Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

Guidelines, recommendations, and training resources, links to resources.

Publications

A Guide to Workplace Drug Testing in Iowa, Oct 2004

Section 730.5 of the Iowa Code, and Section 641, Chapter 12 of the Iowa Administrative Code- Code Sections Dealing with Alcohol/Drug Testing

Employer Costs Briefs - Information briefs provide employers advice on cost effective ways of helping employees

The Impact of Addiction in the Workplace - Statistics from Hazelden Foundation

Worker Substance Use and Workplace Policies and Programs - SAMHSA study reports that substance use can pose significant risks to workers’ health and productivity. Workers who use illicit drugs are less likely than nonusers to be employed by companies that have drug or alcohol testing policies and programs.

Making Your Workplace Drug Free: A Kit for Employers (SAMHSA) Kit includes information for supervisors and managers, and fact sheets for employers and employees. En Espanol

The Active Ingredients of Effective Treatment for Alcohol Problems - Learn about the different types of alcohol treatment and how communities, families, employers, and individuals can benefit from effective treatment.

Making your Workplace Smoke free: A Decision Maker's Guide (CDC)

Violence in the Workplace: Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies (NIOSH)

Preventing Homicide in the Workplace (NIOSH)

Combating Workplace Violence (International Association of Chiefs of Police)

Workplace Violence: A Report to the Nation publication from the Iowa Injury Prevention Resource Center, University of Iowa.