impact of employee assistance

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Name :Bertila Zeferino Edline Dsouza

Roll no: 1414


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EAP ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

EAPs provide these essential functions:

direct service delivery to employees (e.g. treatment)

system-maintenance activities (e.g. training)

A company may establish an EAP or may contract withan outside provider

Some programs address substance abuse only,whereas others assist with any personal concerns.


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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

The present study examined employees who abused drugsand alcohol for the purpose of evaluating reportable safety

incidents and risk in the workplace. Three research questions

were considered.

First, work-related safety incident rates of return-to-work employees and

the general population were compared.

Second, safety incident rates of return-to-work employees were

compared before and after EAP intervention.

Finally, post-EAP incident rates were analyzed to test the hypothesis that

the incident rate would decrease after returning to work.


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Procedure Participants in the study were 12,167 employees

whose records showed at least one reportablesafety incident: 12,092 in the company's generalpopulation with no positive drug tests

75 who had tested positive for drugs and/or

alcohol , had been fired, and had completed EAP requirements to return to work. Safety

incident records for all employees were obtainedthrough the company's Business Objects

database. Drug test results and work status were obtained

through the company's MedComp database andEAP.


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PROCESS Data of two years were taken.

The difference between proportions of twoindependent samples

Safety incidents were classified into categories based

on type and whether or no the case was recordable


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.A recordable case includes lost-time, medical, restricted, vehicle,and fatality cases. Lost-time cases refer to be employees who are not able toreturn to work the day after an injury or illness resulting from an incident.

A medical case indicates that the employee required treatment formerphysician following a safety incident.

A restricted caseis one in which the employee is able to come back towork after a safety incident with restrictions/accommodations.

A vehicle caseis one in which an employee is driving or operating a vehiclewhen an

accident occurs.

Multiple incidents include any combination of categories. Incidentrates for each group were obtained in each category


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HYPOTHESIS hypothesis that the incident rate of the return-to-work

employees would be higher than the rate of thecompany's general population.

It was hypothesized that the safety incident rate wouldbe lower after EAP services.


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RESULT

The results indicate that between 2000 and 2002, the return-to-workemployee group had a lower rate of recordable incidents, overall, thandid the general population group.

Analysis of recordable cases showed that whereas return-to-work

employees had a higher rate of lost-time incidents than did the generalpopulation group.


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The results of the analysis indicated that there were nodifferences in the incident rates, in all categories, of the

return-to-work employees before and after EAPinterventions ,suggesting that rehired employees are likelyto have workplace accidents even after treatment isprovided.

The fluctuating incident rate after returning to the jobsuggests that individuals who abuse substances may beunpredictable and may have workplace accidents

regardless of intervention and follow-up services.

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