Marijuana and the Workplace: What Every Employer Should Know
Join Us to Learn What Employers Must Know in Order to Properly Recognize and Respond to Employee Substance Abuse.
Instructor :
Jo McGuire
Webinar ID:
2534
Date: JAN 21, 2025 (TUE)
Start Time: 10 am PT
Duration: 2 Hrs
What you will learn
- How to understand the direct and indirect costs of workplace substance use
- To recognize the difference between traditional marijuana vs. contemporary products
- The risks associated with employee marijuana use
- How you should and should not be changing your policies to adapt to state law changes
- How to understand the direct and indirect costs of workplace substance use
- To recognize the difference between traditional marijuana vs. contemporary products
- The risks associated with employee marijuana use
- How you should and should not be changing your policies to adapt to state law changes
- What rights and responsibilities you have to protect employee safety
Course Description
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) reports suggests specific links between marijuana use and adverse consequences in the workplace, such as the increased risk for injury or accidents. The report mentions that employees who tested positive for marijuana had 55% more industrial accidents, 85% more injuries, and 75% greater absenteeism compared with those who tested negative for marijuana use.
The Process of Legalization of marijuana is having an enormous impact on Employers and leaving them with key questions like:
- How is its legalization impacting workplace safety?
- Can an employee file a discrimination lawsuit if medical marijuana use doesn’t align with our organization’s drug policy?
- How is it going to impact the bottom line?
- How should you and should not change your policies to adapt to state law changes?
While state laws are rapidly changing and may be causing confusion, it is vital to recognize that workplace safety parameters remain paramount to an employer’s responsibility for protecting the vulnerable.
How can that be done while complying with state laws?
In this webinar, Jo McGuire, Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association, will provide anyone in the employment sector with a solid overview of:
- How contemporary marijuana impacts their workplace
- What is trending in employee marijuana use
- The direct costs they should be tracking in order to understand appropriate responses when writing and reviewing their workplace policies.
- Employers will also learn how cannabis products have evolved in the last 10 years
- What employers must know in order to properly recognize and respond to employee substance abuse and more…
Join us Now!
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) reports suggests specific links between marijuana use and adverse consequences in the workplace, such as the increased risk for injury or accidents. The report mentions that employees who tested positive for marijuana had 55% more industrial accidents, 85% more injuries, and 75% greater absenteeism compared with those who tested negative for marijuana use.
The Process of Legalization of marijuana is having an enormous impact on Employers and leaving them with key questions like:
- How is its legalization impacting workplace safety?
- Can an employee file a discrimination lawsuit if medical marijuana use doesn’t align with our organization’s drug policy?
- How is it going to impact the bottom line?
- How should you and should not change your policies to adapt to state law changes?
While state laws are rapidly changing and may be causing confusion, it is vital to recognize that workplace safety parameters remain paramount to an employer’s responsibility for protecting the vulnerable.
How can that be done while complying with state laws?
In this webinar, Jo McGuire, Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association, will provide anyone in the employment sector with a solid overview of:
- How contemporary marijuana impacts their workplace
- What is trending in employee marijuana use
- The direct costs they should be tracking in order to understand appropriate responses when writing and reviewing their workplace policies.
- Employers will also learn how cannabis products have evolved in the last 10 years
- What employers must know in order to properly recognize and respond to employee substance abuse and more…
Join us Now!
Why you should attend
This webinar will discuss how problematic substance use may affect the workplace and how an organization can address such issues. Employers should be aware on the impact/costs of substance use in the workplace and have effective policies in place to protect the vulnerable.
Marijuana is the most frequently used illicit drug of abuse in the United States and the drug most often detected in workplace drug testing. A solid workplace drug policy can go a long way to keeping your organization drug-free.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, by adopting effective workplace substance abuse policies, employers can see significant improvements in job-related performance:
- 91% decrease in absenteeism
- 88% decrease in problems with supervisors
- 93% decrease in mistakes in work
- 97% decrease in on-the-job injuries
Jo McGuire, Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association, will clarify the boundaries and explain how to best approach these important issues while thinking outside of the box on solutions for keeping people at work.
Register now to learn more…
This webinar will discuss how problematic substance use may affect the workplace and how an organization can address such issues. Employers should be aware on the impact/costs of substance use in the workplace and have effective policies in place to protect the vulnerable.
Marijuana is the most frequently used illicit drug of abuse in the United States and the drug most often detected in workplace drug testing. A solid workplace drug policy can go a long way to keeping your organization drug-free.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, by adopting effective workplace substance abuse policies, employers can see significant improvements in job-related performance:
- 91% decrease in absenteeism
- 88% decrease in problems with supervisors
- 93% decrease in mistakes in work
- 97% decrease in on-the-job injuries
Jo McGuire, Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association, will clarify the boundaries and explain how to best approach these important issues while thinking outside of the box on solutions for keeping people at work.
Register now to learn more…
Areas Covered
- Impact/costs of substance use in the workplace
- Statistics of marijuana use in the workplace
- What employers need to know about contemporary marijuana
- What’s trending in employee marijuana use
- How State Laws impact employer’s rights to test
- Employer’s responsibilities to protect safety
- Impact/costs of substance use in the workplace
- Statistics of marijuana use in the workplace
- What employers need to know about contemporary marijuana
- What’s trending in employee marijuana use
- How State Laws impact employer’s rights to test
- Employer’s responsibilities to protect safety
Who is this course for
- Small business owners
- Safety managers
- HR personnel
- Contractors
- Operations managers
- Any individual responsible for hiring, retaining, or supervising employees
- Small business owners
- Safety managers
- HR personnel
- Contractors
- Operations managers
- Any individual responsible for hiring, retaining, or supervising employees
Instructor Profile
Jo McGuire was the founding Chairman and currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association, advocating for safe and drug-free workplaces worldwide. She is also a Certified Professional Collector and Trainer (CPCT) and a Certified Designated Employee Representative Trainer (CDERT), who consults and trains professionals overseeing Safety Sensitive Employees in the compliance of federal DOT guidelines for drug and alcohol screening programs.
Jo also assists educators with classroom and assembly-style presentations, aimed at youth drug prevention, and parent awareness and education. She is also the President/CEO of Five Minutes of Courage as well as a featured speaker on the National Marijuana Initiative’s speaker’s bureau. As an accomplished writer and speaker, Jo has traveled extensively to conduct seminars, trainings, conferences and leadership retreats for the public, private and non-profit sector.
Jo participated in the 1st annual Latin American Congress on Safe and Drug-Free Workplaces in Santiago, Chile, representing employer’s rights to maintain best practices in substance use prevention, as modeled in the U.S. In 2013 she was appointed to serve on the Colorado Governor’s Task Force, convened to recommend a legislative framework for the regulation of marijuana after the passage of Amendment 64.
As a part of the Taxation, Banking and Civil Law work group, Jo lent her expertise in the form of recommendations for drug and alcohol testing in the workplace. She also represented the National Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry at the 2016 United Nations’ General Assembly to address world drug agreements.
Jo has also joined efforts with concerned citizens around the state of Colorado in grass roots efforts focused on bringing the proven medical research and scientific data to the forefront of the national effort to legalize marijuana in the U.S. Jo works closely with national health experts to educate state and federal policy makers on the importance of public health, pertaining to drug and alcohol testing practices and policies.
