Effective screening policies for every industry
According to research done by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2014), drugs and alcohol contribute to 26% of accidents in the workplace – costing the UK more than £4bn per year. Over many decades, Dräger has gained extensive experience and expertise in alcohol and drug screening, with the aim of helping to decrease these numbers. Indeed, for the past 60 years, we have been a world leader in the field of alcohol screening with many hundreds of police forces across the world. Increasingly, policymakers, employers and Health and Safety professionals in many workplaces are turning to Dräger to help improve the safety of their employees and assets.
Drug and alcohol corporate testing policies

What do substance screening policies look like?
The advantages of screening policies

Pros and Cons – Oral Fluid Drug Testing v Urine Drug Testing
Hygiene, time-efficiency, accuracy and workplace over lifestyle testing are some of the things we believe to be advantageous with oral fluid drug testing over urine testing.
Oral fluid is an established matrix for drug screening in the workplace which detects parent drugs. An important advantage is that it is relatively easy to obtain for collection. It can also be carried out with minimal training and easily observed, therefore it is less susceptible to adulteration. The acceptance of oral fluid as a non-invasive, simple way of drug detection has led to the extensive use in a wide variety of settings. Useful in the detection of recent drug use, results can be used to build part of a case to prove impairment.
Oral fluid drug detection times are shorter than Urine (5 – 48 hours compared with 1.5 – 4 days respectively). Oral fluid testing results are indicative of very recent consumption of psychoactive drug substances and therefore provides qualitative information on recent drug consumption. Oral fluid drug test kits can be compact and used anywhere whilst providing data capture for auditing purposes which makes these devices ideal for workplace testing
Before a sample is taken there should be a period of 10 minutes where nothing is passed through the mouth or nose. A look in the mouth should be performed to make sure nothing is inside.
The non-heterogeneous matrix, for example, changing viscosity of salvia, means that is necessary to use a buffer solution to ensure consistency of detection.
Products
Dräger helps you to effectively check for alcohol and drugs at your working space.
Choose the ideal products for your company, from the big variety of alcohol breathalyzers and drug testing kits.