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» Alcohol, Drugs, Violence and Obesity in the Workplace, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004
If respondent required one or more employees to take a drug or alcohol test in the last three years.

Under what circumstances did you require such tests?

4B. (circumstances of drug/alcohol test) Did you require such tests when there was a reasonable suspicion of use?

Response Small employer required
drug/alcohol test
All small employing business/
Small employers
1 Yes 35 3
2 No 65 97
3 DK/Refuse 0 0
Total (%) 100 100
N 102 753

Notes: Thirty-five (35) percent of small employers who tested one or more employees for drugs or alcohol in the last three years did so when there was reasonable suspicion of use (Q#4B). Three percent of small employers required a drug or alcohol test in the last three years when there was a reasonable suspicion of use (Q#4B).


Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004
ISSN - 1534-8326

William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation



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