Here is one real life dilemnia that faces managers in most industries.

In a plant that has equipment that can cost you a finger, a hand, and sometimes if your really stupid your arm, the company I work for has a no-drug use policy. The drug testing is not done unless you have an accident at work.

If you are tested postive for drugs - the company policy is to terminate the employee for thier drug use. But at the same time the employee has been involved in a work place accident.

I will discuss my answer after some discussion from others. But is this a ethical practice by the employeer? Is it sound legal policy for the company? And finally is it really the humane thing to do, terminating an employee after they have been hurt at work for a postive test on drugs? Feel free to qualify you answer on this by stating drug use at work, and the testing that happens to determine if you are using drugs outside of the workplace, because it only determines if drugs were used in during a time period, not the exact time.


After this rather simple one - another Drug Testing in the work place issue, will be presented. Its more complex then this one.