MENU

Benefits of On-site Testing vs. Laboratory Testing

Onsite drug and alcohol ‘testing’ or ‘screening’ is convenient for many reasons, primarily because employees do not have to take extraneous time out of work to travel to a laboratory, to wait to be tested, and to wait for the test results. Onsite testing allows efficiency in time by bringing the professionals to your business, significantly reducing the time taken up by the testing process, thereby reducing the loss of productivity associated with drug & alcohol testing. With the Mediscreen™ system, testing equipment is stored at your place of business, allowing it to be set up quickly and efficiently, decreasing employee down-time even further.

In addition to this, staff records are conveniently stored at your place of business, which should eliminate potential loss of private, important information that can occur during transport and ensures that staff documentation is kept confidential and in one place only, giving your employees a feeling of confidence about the safety of their highly personal information.

When employees are tested in a laboratory/medical centre, depending on the process of that organisation, they may be detained until results have been determined. In addition to this, laboratory testing can take up to 2 or 3 days to get even preliminary results, whereas onsite testing using reliable screening technology provides immediate notification of non-negative results.

Perhaps one of the greatest benefits of onsite testing is that it allows employees who return a negative result from the screening test, to continue on with their work immediately afterwards, and more importantly, identifies potential risk takers whose screening results are returned as non-negatives, to be temporarily removed from the place of work. The results are then confirmed by an accredited laboratory. This practice ensures both short-term and long-term employee safety and promotes a secure working environment.

Mediscreen™ offers onsite testing 24/7, which allows both employers and employees to maintain their regular sleeping and working schedules around the clock, which keeps them from having to take time out to visit a laboratory during the daytime. This is especially important in hard labor and high hazard working conditions, when stress is high, long hours are kept and sleeping schedules must be properly maintained. Insufficient sleep can create a dangerous working environment all by itself, due to carelessness, poor attention to detail and slow reaction time.

For professional onsite drug and alcohol testing, call Mediscreen on 1300 79 70 40.

This entry was posted in Articles and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.
  • Categories

  • Archives

  • Recent Posts

  • error

    Enjoy this blog? Please spread the word :)