When you are looking to grow your small business, there are very few things which are better for this growth than using onsite drug and alcohol testing.

1. Growing Your Small Business
When you are looking to grow your small business, there are very few things which are better for
this growth than using onsite drug and alcohol testing. Unlike with a large company, any employee
missing from the day to day operations can seriously slow down the operations of the business. This
means that onsite drug and alcohol screening is very time effective when you are looking to
maintaining maximum output in your operations, but you still want to start implement employee
screening procedures.
Now, we have talked about how small businesses can “dress for success” so to speak by acting
like they have many more employees and therefore using employee drug and alcohol testing as part
of this preparation and forethought process. However, there are some other benefits to using
screening when you have only a small number of employees. In many companies, one or two
employees committing fraud can drastically reduce the income of the business, even up to five
figures a year, and this includes sole practitioner operations, such as chiropractors and specialized
doctors.
Workplace drug testing laws only are enforced in specific industries, like the high hazard
operations, and they are not necessarily considered important by many small business owners.
Fortunately, alcohol and drug testing is still useful in these smaller operations, because they find
and identify employees who are potentially affecting the local reputation of the company or who
could eventually end up leading their own path down the fraud highway.
Fortunately, you do not have to send your employees to a laboratory in order to get them tested on a
regular basis. This costs time and, in addition to paying for the regular testing fees, you will have to
pay for the overhead costs of running the laboratory. Thanks to drug testing equipment from our
sister company, CMM Technology, Mediscreen is able to provide onsite drug and alcohol screening
at a far more reduced rate than otherwise. Mediscreen is accredited to carry out onsite urine drug
testing to AS 4308. We are proud to say that our productivity is high, our onsite drug testing is
accredited by NATA, and our costs are low because of our particular specialization.
If you think your small business would be interested in using onsite drug and alcohol screening, as
opposed to laboratory testing in its usual form.