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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.