Il Contrasto Delle Dipendenze Nei Luoghi Di Lavoro. Proposta Di Una Politica Aziendale
Nicola Magnavita (1), gruppo La.R.A.(2).
(1) Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, UCSC, Roma
(2) Gruppo di Studio Lavoratori Rischiosi per gli Altri
Policy Against Substance Abuse At The Workplace
Abstract
Background: Italian laws mandate alcohol- and drug-testing at the workplace. Companies are advised to develop an effective health and safety management system, in order to minimize hazards directly or indirectly streaming from work.
Methods: The Italian study group on Hazardous Workers (La.R.A.) is an association of physicians from different specialties, jurists, bioethicists, trade unionists, and employers, aiming at defining and implementing preventive policies on how to manage hazardous workers. LaRA held a meeting on workplace alcohol- and drug-testing in Rome, April 5, 2008, and developed a Consensus Document.
Conclusion: Each employer should draw up, together with the staff, a written programme on drug-free workplace. The programme defines the overall objectives for and the practices to be observed at the workplace in order to prevent substance abuse and to refer the problem users to treatment. Pre-employment drug testing may be carried out by qualified, public laboratories. Workplace drug testing must be carried out in a legally secured way and according to defined quality standard, taking into account the integrity and protection of privacy of the persons tested as well as their other fundamental rights.
