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Article: Drug, Alcohol Testing Policy Reduces St. Louis Construction Industry Deaths.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 9, 2003
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By Jack Naudi, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 9--The facts about drug and alcohol use are sobering to those in the construction industry.
Someone under the influence faces twice the risk of on-the-job injury as a clear-headed worker; construction workers are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol than any other employee group; and no industry has a higher on-the-job injury rate.
So it's with a special urgency that the St. Louis construction industry has spent more than a decade developing a uniform drug and alcohol policy, revolving mainly around drug testing.
The task has not been easy. Building ...