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Amtrak employees failing drug, alcohol tests at alarming rate
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<p>[quote user="BaltACD"]</p> <p><span style="color:#000000;">[quote user="schlimm"]</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/travel/amtrak-drug-alcohol-tests/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/travel/amtrak-drug-alcohol-tests/index.html</a></p> <p>"Amtrak's employees failed drug and alcohol tests at a staggering 51% higher rate than the rail industry average."</p> <p>Not good.</p> <div style="clear:both;">[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">While I agree that any increase is not good and the 51% number sounds staggering - I believe that increase is based upon the industry average being approximately 0.5% (one half of one percent) and Amtrak being approximately 0.75% (3/4 of one percent). We are not talking staggering numbers of people and with Amtrak's relatively smaller employee base, each individual failure has a more significant impact on the final statistic than does the individual failure on other members in the industry average. The increase in Amtrak failures is of concern, but it is not the catastrophic level that the 51% headline would have one believe.</span></div> <div style="clear:both;">[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;"> <p>Spot on! Every time we had an incident in the electric utility where I spent most of my working life, HR and management would go ballistic. Mind you, at no point did we find or have any reason to believe that more than 1/2 of 1 per cent of our employees had a drug or alcohol problem.</p> <p>We took the issue seriously because the electric utility business is dangerous. This is especially true at the nuke plants. People need to keep the statistics and issue in proper perspective.</p> </div>
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