Alcohol, Drugs, Violence and Obesity in the Workplace
» Alcohol, Drugs, Violence and Obesity in the Workplace, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2004
If respondent (or one of his/her supervisors) warned, counseled, disciplined or fired one or more employees in the last three years for unauthorized use or abuse of alcohol and/or drugs.
Think of the last time it occurred.
8b. Was it the first time you took up the problem with the employee, the second time, or more than the second time?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First time | 40 | ||
| 2 | Second time | 19 | ||
| 3 | More than a second time | 41 | ||
| 4 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 172 | |||
Notes: Forty (40) percent of small employers who warned, counseled, disciplined or fired one or more employees in the last three years for unauthorized use or abuse of alcohol and/or drugs report the most recent disciplinary action of an employee involving drugs and/or alcohol was the employee's first incident (Q#8b).


