Alcohol Awareness in Reasonable Suspicion Training is More than Spotting the Wobbly Employee

Alcohol awareness training is an important part of DOT reasonable suspicion training, but not for the reasons you might at first imagine. When discussing alcohol awareness, you might think that this topic will focus mostly on signs of intoxication, the way a drunk wobbles, speech, and smell. You will discover few intoxicated individuals this way, and that was proven, well, way back in 1960 when we taught supervisors to do all these things and nothing happened. We then shifted to performance, quality of work, attendance, conduct, workplace troubles, and evaluated these individuals for alcoholism. The reults? Boom! The EAP field was born.

But, I digress. Although these things are important, even more important are intensive education for supervisors which breaks their grip on the myths and misconceptions they naturally possess about alcohol, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, treatment, recovery, and manipulation.

Failing to address these issues will leave your supervisor audience about where they were when they first arrived--resistant to believing in the disease model of addiction and the important ramifications this will have on the future as they engage employees. Supervisors who have not been trained and educated in these myths and misconceptions are extremely vulnerable to manipulation.

To keep your alcohol awareness education meaningful, consider the 7-8 handouts on drug and alcohol awareness that you will discover on the WorkExcel.com/blog - specifically at http://www.workexcel.com/blog/nine-musthave-handouts-for-dot-drug-and-alcohol-training-in-reasonable-suspicion-for-supervisors/ These handouts are editable and reproducible, and you buy them on the Web site.

Before purchase drug and alcohol training program for the DOT, be sure this awareness training is in the package. At http://workexcel.info, you will discover you can preview a product free--free postage and free return -- get a good look at the product. Make sure it provides employees with information necessary to increase awareness about alcohol and other drugs of abuse. The alcohol awareness training should focus on employee well-being and workplace productivity and should include information about the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction (addictive disease); common myths and misconceptions; tolerance and cross tolerance, denial; enabling and armchair diagnosing.

Yeah, we got that.

The alcohol awareness training should raise awareness about the misinformation most people possess about alcoholism and drug addiction garnered from popular culture, the media, and family history.

One of society's greatest misconceptions is that someone has to "want help" before they can be helped. The truth is most employees are motivated or pressured by tools of influence or leverage such as a job, money, prison or divorce. They enter treatment and then they become motivated to want what the healtiest patient has found--peace of mind with sobriety

Cocaine Education and Awareness in DOT Supervisor Training

WorkExcel.com has a program on Cocaine Abuse that can benefit DOT Supervisor Training curriculum's that may have more concern about cocaine because of the nature of the workplace environment. See their blog note about it below.
http://www.workexcel.com/blog/dot-supevisor-training-and-education-about-cocaine-addiction-or-use-in-the-workplace/

Checklist/Documentation Worksheet for Reasonable Suspicion - WorkExcel

Checklist/Documentation Worksheet for Reasonable Suspicion - WorkExcel

WorkExcel.com's Blog Hits Nine Vital Tip Sheet Topics Worth Dropping on Supervisors

DOT Drug and Alcohol Training workplace wellness tip sheets that blow supervisors away. Consider these found at the WorkExcel.com blog http://www.workexcel.com/blog/nine-musthave-handouts-for-dot-drug-and-alcohol-training/ -








I would like to add that the DOT Drug and Alcohol Training package that any Web site sells should make questions in their test educational. In other words, not just true or false, but expanded upon in the answer once it is selected.

Reasoanable Suspicion Training: Free Training Advice Worth Heeding

Here is free advice worth heeding. Go beyond the DOT requirement for drug educaiton and discuss enabling. You will be surprised, how, when it occurs, and what industries are most effected by alcohol and drug problems. Enabling in the workplace is a serious problem. With reasonable suspicion training, you must make DOT supervisors aware of how enabling takes place so they do not fall prey to its many routes of manifestation. Enabling happens in the following ways and will be seen in the following types of industries where high value is placed on social activity with frequent use of alcohol, alcohol use at lunch, etc. (i.e.,lawyers are more likely to drink at lunch  than school teachers. High male demographic work groups with strong social ties consume more alcohol.)  You will therefore see more alcohol in these professions. It has nothing to do with the profession, but the exposure to beverage ethanol consumption. Official rest breaks that allow for alcohol use are found in beer breweries. They therefore have more alcoholism. Industries characterized by frequent opportunity to use alcohol (or drugs.) For example, organizations with higher rates of business travel, sales travel, evening work shifts with after-hours socializing with alcohol; isolated employees without direct  supervision (i.e., non-office-like environments); exposure to served alcoholic beverages (airlines, hotel, restaurants); accessibility to addictive drugs - pharmaceutical, medical, and nursing occupations. Self-employed persons. (Frequent opportunity to tax susceptibility exists when self-employed, and many alcoholics will become self-employed as a result of alcoholic drinking at work.) Finally, if an alcohol/drug policy lacks effectiveness or fear exists that a zero tolerance policy will not permit treatment, then risk to the organization will increase and enabling will ensue.

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New Supervisor Training: PowerPoint or DVD, Web Course or Video

New supervisor training includes about 12-15 key topics. If you hit these topics, you will educate supervisor to have about 95% of everything to know. We finished our research, and so we are recommending this program. You can find this new supervisor training program at the video or you can just go to http://supervisortools.com/supervisor-training.html

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Reasonable Suspicion Training for Supervisors: Train Them on the Excuses Employees Give

Be sure to train supervisors on the wide variety of excuses employees give when the are confronted by supervisors because if you do not, they will fail in the responsibility for following through with requiring a test.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20gT7stk5as

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