It is imperative to do pre-hire drug testing. Whether for safety reasons in manufacturing or building or for legal reasons. It is known that drug abuse affects quality of work and quantity of work done, let alone sick days. This is known information and not what this article is trying to go over. Just setting the baseline of why this matters. This article is about how to do the pre-hire drug testing more efficiently and maybe more thorough.
Early drug testing.
The earlier and quicker you can do a drug test when going through the hiring process the less money and time used or wasted on someone you cannot hire. For a long time the standard drug testing has been urine and/or blood tests. These have worked great. Can you make it better? We surely think so.
Saliva drug testing can be done easily and quickly. Observation while aadministering the test while happening so there is less chance of someone cheating. You can have the results back in minutes. Then you have a lab tested version of the saliva sample that tests for way more than the standard drugs looked for in the quick saliva test.
You can do it when you need to go to another place to hire and you do not want to send your pre-hire applicants to a drug testing place.
So why do the saliva test if it does not check for everything. More than 10% of workers in many cases are failing the drug tests. The vast majority of drugs are just a few and are caught in the simple saliva test.
Do it better
The saliva test will not turn up positive if a guy was drinking on the weekend. This scares off employees because they might be great workers who only drink while not at work or on the weekend. These days getting good workers is imperative.
Blood and urine tests show this up longer than in just the saliva.
Less worrisome.
Saliva testing is also less intrusive in that you do not need a private place and you do not need a trained person to take an applicant’s blood. Some applicants are scared of needles and may not even apply if blood testing is mandated.
For Urine tests it is getting harder and harder these days to have a matching gender person verify the urine test is collected correctly. Or even have to visit a restroom.
Early Pre-hire tests
To make it easier and quicker to get good applicants through your hiring process the EZ II Saliva drug test is a great option. As well as getting rid of applicants sooner who you are not going to be able to hire. The answer might just be EZ saliva II testing.
The EZ saliva II test was designed for the pre-hire test. This allows for quick verification and lab proof that the drug testing is good. Plus the lab testing will for many more drugs than the simple quick drug test. This can be done easily by certifying your hiring staff on administering EZ SALIVA II drug tests.
Simply put – be quick and thorough on your pre-hire drug tests with EZ saliva II testing.