As I thought I'd already outlined there's no basis to suggest that random or any other testing positively contributes to safety or productivity at work, whereas improved management and safety and awareness does!
It's not an issue not wanting to be safe at work it's a matter of whether it is necessary to go down the road of testing. As this has negative implications in respect to personal privacy and as I have already said there is no clear indication that testing is of any noticeable value, why compromise your civil liberties. Its pretty much like saying CCTV stops crime. In reality it doesn't it just records it. In the same manner employers conceded in the Rowntree inquiry that testing does nothing to deter drug or alcohol use - probably because there isn't a wide scale problem. It seems to me that much of this is employers passing the buck on health and safety.
Hypothetically if screening for Alcohol and drugs was 100% successful and all those nasty alkies and druggies were either cured and turned into decent upstanding people or marginalised on benefits in some sink estate in a inner city area and removed from the workforce; do you think there still may be accidents at work? Perhaps IQ tests could be introduced to prove you are mentally competent to work?
It's not an issue not wanting to be safe at work it's a matter of whether it is necessary to go down the road of testing. As this has negative implications in respect to personal privacy and as I have already said there is no clear indication that testing is of any noticeable value, why compromise your civil liberties. Its pretty much like saying CCTV stops crime. In reality it doesn't it just records it. In the same manner employers conceded in the Rowntree inquiry that testing does nothing to deter drug or alcohol use - probably because there isn't a wide scale problem. It seems to me that much of this is employers passing the buck on health and safety.
Hypothetically if screening for Alcohol and drugs was 100% successful and all those nasty alkies and druggies were either cured and turned into decent upstanding people or marginalised on benefits in some sink estate in a inner city area and removed from the workforce; do you think there still may be accidents at work? Perhaps IQ tests could be introduced to prove you are mentally competent to work?