9th January 2014, 10:43 PM
PhaseSI Wrote:Is this a trick question?! Yes it is different. Having drugs or alcohol in your system can impair your ability to work safely, endangering you and others. I can't see why anyone would be overly upset about it or think that it isn't about anything other than safety. Bit odd.
I don't think anybody wants to work alongside someone who is out of their head on drink or drugs, but if that was the case then it'd be pretty obvious anyway and they'd be ( rightly ) thrown off site or sacked. I think one of the problems with D + A tests is that they just tend to catch out individuals who occasionally smoke Cannabis as it stays in the bloodstream for a long time period. I wouldn't consider my safety endangered by working with someone that had smoked some dope days previously.