Workplace At-risk Drinking and Secondhand Drinking Prevention Programs
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Workplace At-risk Drinking and Secondhand Drinking Prevention Programs – why the workplace? and what business is a person’s off-site drinking and/or secondhand drinking to the workplace?
The workplace offers a unique opportunity for at-risk drinking and secondhand drinking prevention because most people intersect with the workplace at some time in their lives. Businesses, agencies and non-profits that provide the here-to-fore unknown (or not widely known) information on “at-risk” drinking, secondhand drinking, 21st century brain science explaining how alcohol and SHD impact the brain and therefore behaviors not only improve their employee’s health and lives but improve workplace safety, satisfaction and productivity, as well.
Providing information through HR informational policies, workshops, training and Employee Wellness Programs (aka Employee Assistance Programs, EAPs) about SHD and “at-risk” drinking can help employees self-elect changes that can improve their health and well-being, which in turn improves workplace safety, satisfaction and productivity. These programs ARE NOT about putting the workplace in the position of monitoring an employee’s off-site drinking or drinking behaviors, rather they are about the workplace offering their employees here-to-fore unknown (or not widely known) information they can use to SELF-ELECT change.
Workplace At-risk Drinking and Secondhand Drinking Prevention Programs HELP EMPLOYEES
- Learn how alcohol is processed by the body and thereby affects the brain, which causes the drinking behaviors.
- Understand “safe” drinking limits.
- Understand how a person “chooses” to drink and risk getting DUI.
- Understand the causes and science behind alcohol use vs. alcohol abuse vs. alcoholism; how they are different; how they are similar; and what works and does not work to treat or change one vs. the other.
- Realize a person’s behaviors while engaging in at-risk drinking are not the “real” person.
- Learn about Secondhand Drinking (SHD) – the impacts on others who cope with an at-risk drinker’s drinking behaviors.
- Recognize what a spouse, parent, sibling, child or friend can and cannot do to help an at-risk drinking loved one stop or cut down.
- Find anonymous online assessment and solution tools.
- Choose to “Self-Elect” to change at-risk drinking patterns and/or coping patterns for dealing with SHD.
Workplace At-risk Drinking and Secondhand Drinking Prevention Programs HELP BUSINESS OWNERS & MANAGEMENT
- Prevent workplace consequences of employee off-site, at-risk drinking patterns and coping with Secondhand Drinking, namely: absenteeism, lost productivity, workplace accidents, late arrivals, early departures, safety risks.
- Reduce health care costs associated with at-risk drinking ER visits, longer hospital stays or treatments for the health problems caused by at-risk drinking (e.g., heart & liver disease).
- Reduce health care costs associated with treating the consequences of coping with chronic SHD (e.g., headaches, migraines, depression, anxiety, stomach ailments).
- Provide employees with self-assessment, intervention and prevention resources and tools to “Self-Elect” to change at-risk drinking patterns and/or coping patterns for dealing with SHD.
- Develop ongoing workshops and training programs for management and employees to help all concerned understand 21st century brain and alcohol-related research and thereby improve employee health and company moral and bottom line.
©2012 Lisa Frederiksen, BreakingTheCycles.com
Lisa Frederiken offers Workplace At-risk drinking and Secondhand Drinking Prevention programs.
If your workplace would like such a program (these are customized to meet specific target audience requirements, for example: management, EAP/Wellness program leaders, employees, HR personnel) or customized prevention materials or for further information, please give Lisa Frederiksen a call at 650-362-3026 or email her at lisaf@BreakingTheCycles.com. Note: this program can adjusted to include prescription and illegal drugs, as well.
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