People and Their Secrets

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People are often very possessive of their secrets. They may feel that their secrets make them special. They may even feel that their secrets give them something which they can truly possess, as long as those secrets are kept. Some people feel that their secrets are dangerous to themselves and that if they don’t keep them, some harm will befall their health or their family.

People are good at keeping secrets, because it is essentially the same as having a very private life, only on purpose. Some people believe that, if you keep a secret from your friend, that this is the same as lying to them. Others believe that this is just avoiding a confrontation and is perfectly natural.

How do you keep your secrets? Do you keep them entirely to yourself, or do you share them with people who have access to the most intimate parts of your life? Do you only talk about your secrets with strangers, so as to avoid venting on people who know you and may be able to come back and hurt you with them later?

Trust is very tricky. Different people consider breaking trust to be very different things. Some people believe that personally attacking someone is breaking their trust, and some believe that telling a secret is the only trust breaking which actually exists. Some believe that being put in danger breaks trust, and particularly so if the perpetrator does not seem to care that they have put them in danger. What about your business? Your employees trust you to make sure that they are able to come to work in a reasonable amount of safety.

To help ensure their safety, you must regularly implement employee drug and alcohol testing. This is so that you can keep an eyes on things, and so that you have a paper trail, or physical evidence, in case you must take action regarding their employment and wish to protect your company assets. Mediscreen provides onsite drug testing and alcohol testing for companies all over Australia, for every jobsite which hires us, no matter their location, and we are accredited by NATA to AS4308 and AS4760. Mediscreen is the company for you.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/people-and-their-secrets/

The Next Morning

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“The Morning After” often refers to the next day’s complications arising from a spontaneous and perhaps somewhat unwise romantic tryst of the night before. Naturally, many people talk about the morning after with mostly negative connotations, unless the interactions were, indeed, quite spectacular.

Of course, the morning after can also refer to negative complications arising in other departments besides romance. Drugs and alcohol often lead to incredibly harsh daylight the next morning. In a working situation, we can find out that we texted an offensive message to our boss, that we were a little too honest with one of our coworkers, or that we became physically violent in a workplace setting. It is really quite difficult to ponder all of the various things you may have done the night before, not to mention how many people were sober enough to remember what you did.

It is a good idea to make sure that you keep drugs and alcohol outside of the workplace environment and, especially, outside of working hours. In this manner, you can create a certain amount of separation between personal parties and public business affairs, thus avoiding a lot of the complications which arise come the morning after.

You can set up these public business boundaries by setting up employee drug and alcohol testing in your workplace. You can make a real difference in your company by having a paper trail leading from misconduct in this area to the actual consequences which you may enforce. In this manner, your company assets remain protected, and your business has a trail of evidence governing every decision you make concerning your employees, which creates an additional layer of asset protection if legal complications should at any point arise.

Mediscreen is the company with which you would want to consult. We provide drug testing services which are accredited to AS4760 and AS4308 by NATA. Mediscreen is a leading collection agency throughout Australia, and we are based in Perth, WA. If your workers need fitness and wellness testing, or if you are just looking to see if they are fit for duty, then talk to us. We come to your business, not the other way around.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/the-next-morning/

Forced Elopement: The Art of Finding a Good Son-In-Law

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It is often said in good stories, that the father of the bride is one of the wisest of all of the characters. After being denied time together and after being denied all chance at love, the young couple elopes, after which the father of the bride is often known to have smiled and said, “It’s rare to find a good son-in-law.”

In other words, if the young man were willing to risk everything and take his beloved away to get married against her father’s wishes, he not only has won the respect of the father, but he has proven his own strength of character and force of will in real life concerning the young woman in question.

Some businesses have a rather rigorous training program for their employees, which not only trains the new workers but also gives the executives in charge of the company a good idea of what is going on behind the scenes and which employees have the best chance of being department head someday.

Not every business is this proactive, but the ones which are find these techniques to be invaluable.

One of the most common, and yet for some executives the most overlooked techniques, is the art of employee drug and alcohol screening. Workplace drug testing is, indeed, quite appropriate in proactive businesses and becomes one of the key indicators of a worker’s progress through a business. Even if they start out with one or two substance abuse strikes against them in the beginning, if they become less and less problematic as they rise through the company, then it is clear that they are learning as they progress, which is necessary for a young executive.

Of course, if any of your employees falter regularly (and are NOT a naturally clumsy or nervous kind of person) years after their employment has started, then they may be abusing substances before coming to work or while at work. You must find out for sure, and for this you need high quality onsite drug testing provided by Mediscreen. Workplace drug testing has increased in quality and cost effectiveness since Mediscreen has entered the business marketplace, and many businesses look at our AS4308 and AS4760 NATA accreditation and choose us as their screening provider.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/forced-elopement-the-art-of-finding-a-good-son-in-law/

Feel the Pain

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Do you remember, when you were a kid, dreading even the smallest amount of pain? Whether it was taking off a bandage or getting your blood drawn at the doctor’s office, there was such a huge fear of pain that you would do just about anything to not feel it? As you grew up, and experienced more pain, both in the body and in the heart, you became accustomed to it or unafraid of it because you understood it better.

It never meant that you did not feel pain, but it meant that you knew the proper context of the pain with regard to the surrounding circumstances.

When you entered the business world, you saw that some people were fired and experienced a great deal of pain until they were suitably (and for some time) settled in their new job. You saw that some people experienced the pain of being correct, quite publicly, by their bosses for misbehaving or for screwing up a client account in some manner. You experienced pain yourself when these things and other similar situations happened to you during your employment.

However, some people avoid pain, even as adults. They run from it, scared, and they do not wish to look upon it. Some people look upon pain and see only what they are afraid of and never the solution on the other side of the pain. And they avoid pain by abusing drugs or alcohol, sometimes even while at work.

It is better to feel the pain, and it get out of your system for good, than to allow it to fester within you until it has overcome you in every way.

When you are looking to make sure that your employees are not dealing with their various forms of pain by abusing illicit substances while on their jobsite, make sure you do it with Mediscreen. We are AS4308 accredited by NATA. We provide high quality onsite drug testing and alcohol screening services. We store your employee drug testing records, all of them, at your place of business. Everything, and we mean everything, is under you control and under your watchful eye.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/feel-the-pain/

Waiting for Bad Things

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We all know how nerve wracking it is to wait for something bad to happen. We also know how important it is to always be on the watch for good things to occur when and where they do. If we have a big dread fear for the bad event or circumstance, we will probably freeze up or work furiously until the time has come to meet it.

Waiting for it to happen is almost worse, if not ten times worse, then the actual event itself. And, for most people, if they could have forgotten until right up next to the event, they probably would have chosen to do so.

When you are dreading something, you can’t eat, you can’t sleep, you can’t work, you can’t focus, and you can’t enjoy anything that is going on in the present. So what do you do?

The first thing to think about is exactly how much control you have over the situation. Is there still something you could say, explain, or do which would facilitate a better situation later on? Do you have to wait for a couple of other things to happen, but then you can contribute at the right time and in the right order of things?

The second thing you have to think about is what responsibility you have to take and who you need to acknowledge that responsibility to? Maybe you just have to acknowledge it to yourself. Maybe you can let someone know you understand what happened and your part in it. Either way, you and the other people will feel better for it afterward.

Put off your own dread of implementing a full scale drug and alcohol testing program in your business. Mediscreen provides onsite drug testing, that is, we come to place of business and screen your employees onsite, and we do this with our extensive drug testing knowledgebase, our friendly helpful staff members, and our accreditation to AS4760 and AS4308 by NATA. If you need yet another reason to use our loyal and trusty services, remember that we can screen all of your jobsites, Australia wide. Now, that is really saying something.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/waiting-for-bad-things/

Strength in Numbers and Work Related Tasks

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There is strength in numbers, or so we have heard. Yes, two hundred warships are likely to win against two warships, but other than that, is there any finesse in numbers? The truth is that a good general can make two warships last a very long time, and that a bad general can get many warship quickly reduced down to only a few. So, yes, there must be some finessing of the numbers for there to truly be strength in numbers.

What do work related tasks have to do with strength in numbers?

Well, when someone retires, and we mean truly retires not just say that they do, they suddenly find themselves with a lot of time on their hands. They are able to easily make meetings and meet deadlines, well ahead of schedule. But that’s just in the beginning. It turns out that not having somewhere to go every day and not having a need to use their time more efficiently every day causes them to mismanage their time and actually fail to get to places on time, much more so than when their schedules were jam packed.

When you have a busy schedule of worthwhile things to do, you can actually make better use of your time than when you have more…time. Isn’t that interesting? It has to do with the attitude you have about how you treat time. Have you ever noticed an employee who regularly abuses drugs or alcohol and how they seem to have a very indefinite view of time and deadlines? This is because their view of time is skewed by the timelessness or the seeming timelessness which is created by abusing their drug of choice.

Mediscreen brings high quality drug testing equipment to your place of business and implements onsite drug testing and alcohol screening on a regular basis for you. We are even NATA accredited for medical testing, and our health and wellness specialists are happy to sit down with you and make a systematic screening plan for you and your workers. If you are interested in implementing a drug testing program.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/strength-in-numbers-and-work-related-tasks/

Growing Your Small Business

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When you are looking to grow your small business, there are very few things which are better for this growth than using onsite drug and alcohol testing. Unlike with a large company, any employee missing from the day to day operations can seriously slow down the operations of the business. This means that onsite drug and alcohol screening is very time effective when you are looking to maintaining maximum output in your operations, but you still want to start implement employee screening procedures.

Now, we have talked about how small businesses can “dress for success” so to speak by acting like they have many more employees and therefore using employee drug and alcohol testing as part of this preparation and forethought process. However, there are some other benefits to using screening when you have only a small number of employees. In many companies, one or two employees committing fraud can drastically reduce the income of the business, even up to five figures a year, and this includes sole practitioner operations, such as chiropractors and specialized doctors.

Workplace drug testing laws only are enforced in specific industries, like the high hazard operations, and they are not necessarily considered important by many small business owners. Fortunately, alcohol and drug testing is still useful in these smaller operations, because they find and identify employees who are potentially affecting the local reputation of the company or who could eventually end up leading their own path down the fraud highway.

Fortunately, you do not have to send your employees to a laboratory in order to get them tested on a regular basis. This costs time and, in addition to paying for the regular testing fees, you will have to pay for the overhead costs of running the laboratory. Thanks to drug testing equipment from our sister company, CMM Technology, Mediscreen is able to provide onsite drug and alcohol screening at a far more reduced rate than otherwise. Mediscreen is accredited to carry out onsite urine drug testing to AS 4308. We are proud to say that our productivity is high, our onsite drug testing is accredited by NATA, and our costs are low because of our particular specialization.

If you think your small business would be interested in using onsite drug and alcohol screening, as opposed to laboratory testing in its usual form.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/growing-your-small-business/

Personal Dialogues

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Sometimes, at Mediscreen, we seek to inspire you with what the human spirit is capable of. You see, onsite drug and alcohol testing is all about giving you the information you need to make good, thoughtful decisions about your future and that of your business. And these decisions do not only affect your own financial status, but that of your employees, as well. Therefore, your decisions make a lot of impact for a lot of people.

Workplace drug testing is about making sure that you have the right people for the right jobs in your business. If one or more of your employees is abusing substances while at work, then it will not just affect their own performance, which is a company loss, at best. Instead, it will affect both their performance and that of everyone else.

Do you know how much each of your employees affects those around them?

Personal dialogues are the beginning of healing your workplace. You need to understand just how much the interaction between people affect each person in the interaction.

Drugs and alcohol spread like a virus if they are being abused in the workplace. Old former addicts take up old habits, newcomers learn the joy of numbing the pain, and everyone is affected by the lack of responsibility and self sufficiency within the employee workplace.

After all, if you cannot learn to have positive, productive, constructive personal dialogues with yourself, how can you be expected to have them with your coworkers? Help your workers to avoid these hazards by getting workplace drug testing from Mediscreen. We are NATA accredited for workplace drug testing, and we know that you are looking for the highest quality of services available. For more information, visit our website and take a look at all of the different things you can ask us to do for you. Mediscreen has NATA accreditation to AS 4308 and AS 4760. Call us up and ask us about all of the different prices which would be billed to your business, considering the number of employees and drug screening services requested. If you are seriously thinking about implementing onsite drug testing and alcohol testing, then we are the company for you.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/personal-dialogues/

What is Character Development?

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We were often told that we had to develop our characters as children. Did anybody understand this phrase at that age? It can be difficult to understand it, even at our current age. Developing character? What does that mean, exactly?

Well, character has to do with internal strength. It has to do with developing emotional muscles and mental muscles and, to some degree, physical muscles with which to hold up our burdens on this earth. Without a set of each of these muscle types, well developed, we are ill equipped to deal with life very successfully at all.

Character development involves exercising these emotional and mental muscles so that you can become a well balanced, confident, eager, joy-filled person. As children, we do not necessarily understand this concept called character development, even if we feel ourselves acquiring it through made, kept and broken friendships.

Character is very important to keep people within prescribed social limits so that they do not bulldoze over everyone else or do not make unwanted sexual or risky advances. Character is also necessary for recognizing a need to make amends and for actually making them and following through on apologies and for making people feel better, even if they weren’t the offender, after their feelings have been hurt.

Character is required to keep your head above the water when bad things happen in your life and when you feel the need to indulge in drugs or alcohol. Character is first and foremost about the beauty that comes from building internal strength instead of an external façade. Mediscreen is expert with employee drug testing program, and we specialize in onsite drug and alcohol screening. This means our mobile service, where we bring our quality drug testing equipment to your work, and our onsite drug testing. We here at Mediscreen know how important both character development and drug testing is. We know that you need to confirm the absence of drugs or alcohol in their systems while they are at work and to take appropriate action if illicit substances are found in your workers while they are working on the jobsite.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/what-is-character-development/