Workplace Resources

These AADAC resources provide information on topics and issues specific to the workplace. Whether you're a manager, an employee, a safety supervisor, an employee assistance professional or a small business owner, you'll find useful facts and advice to help you make your workplace safe, healthy and productive.

It's Our Business: Workplace information series

This series offers basic information related to substance use and gambling in the workplace.

For Employers

• Alcohol/Drug Policy Development and Employee Testing
  Information about developing and applying a company policy on alcohol and other drug use, and about employee testing for alcohol or other drugs.

• Dealing With the Troubled Employee
  Tips on identifying a troubled employee, recording observations, meeting with the employee to discuss the problem, and following up to make sure it is solved.

• The Basics: Alcohol, Other Drugs and Gambling
  Answers to basic questions, along with a brief quiz and a checklist of warning signs that a substance use or gambling problem could be developing.

• The Addicted Employee: After Treatment
  Specific steps that employees, co-workers and employers can take to deal with concerns about an employee coming back to work after treatment.

• An Addiction in the Family: What It Means for the Workplace
  Information on how addiction can affect families, how a family problem can affect employee behaviour at work, and how workplaces and families can work together to deal effectively with addiction.

• Workplace Peer Support
  Overview of what workplace peer support is all about: the benefits, types of support available, ways employers can promote peer support, and tips for starting a peer support team in your organization.

• Workplace Health and Wellness
  General information on the benefits of promoting a healthy workplace, how employees can look after their own health and how workplaces can contribute to employee wellness.

• Substance Use and Gambling in the Workplace, 2002: A Replication Study
  Results from an AADAC survey on rates of workplace substance use and gambling, emerging trends, and employer support for employees with substance use or gambling problems.

• How to Support Your Employee's Fitness for Work
  Advice for employers on how to focus on fitness for work, which can help to prevent and reduce workplace safety and performance concerns related to substance use and gambling.

For Employees

• Is Drinking, Using Drugs or Gambling Affecting My Work?
  Booklet that helps employees to assess whether their work is being affected by their substance use or gambling, and offers suggestions on finding further help.

• What You Need to Know About Fitness for Work
  Booklet outlining the concept of fitness for work and describing how substance use and gambling affect fitness for work, what an employee can do to be fit for work, and what someone can do when others are not fit for work.

• Someone at Work Has a Problem
  Guidelines and tips for successfully intervening with a co-worker who may have an alcohol, other drug or gambling problem.

• Supporting Your Fitness for Work
  One-page info sheet that defines fitness for work, offers tips for being healthy and safe at work, and encourages employees to think about whether substance use or gambling is affecting their life.

Manual for Leaders

The It's Our Business series also includes Addressing Alcohol, Drugs and Gambling in the Workplace, a comprehensive 10-part manual for workplace leaders. This manual was designed to help supervisors better understand the kinds of problems employee substance use and gambling can cause in the workplace, and to help them deal with these problems effectively. The information is applicable to both small businesses and large corporations, and is adaptable to different supervisory styles and levels of experience.

Small quantities of these workplace-specific resources are available through your local AADAC office. You can order larger quantities through our resource catalogue.