A Component Analysis of an Alcohol and Drug Program: Employee Education

Abstract

A specific component of an alcohol and drug program, employee education, was evaluated. Two groups of employees at a moderate-sized manufacturing plant in southern Ontario [Canada] were surveyed as to their alcohol knowledge prior to and following an educational seminar. Hourly-rate employees (161) and 61 front-line supervisors, department heads, shop stewards and union bargaining committee members participated in the study. Educational seminars of relatively brief duration were an effective means of increasing employees'' alcohol knowledge and awareness, their familiarity with a company''s alcohol and drug policy and the likelihood of their using established company programs for substance abuse.