PAMLOMO-SAUTI YA JAMII

THE study shows that if Workplace Drug Testing (WDT) programs are very well implemented it can reduce the money lost to country’s economy that is paid for compensation and high insurance costs to workers after workplace accident have happened, this is according to the ‘World of Work Magazine’ of the International Labour Office (ILO) published in September 2006. The magazine which carried a title ‘Brining decent work into focus’ is tremendous one that looks on the coming clean: drug and alcohol testing in the workplace. Workplace drug testing is an essentially controversial subject, one that questions where the line should be drawn between the right to privacy and the right to professionalism. WDT is a relatively new phenomenon worldwide, migrating through multinationals from industrialized to developing countries. Some prescribe it is an effective way of managing substance abuse at work. But, is it really? Argument surrounds WDT. The issues range from questions of privacy to soci...