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Bruce R. Talbot Associates
222 Sunshine Drive
Bolingbrook Illinois, 60490-1545

"The training our management team received was first-rate. Bruce kept the training interesting while covering all the pertinent information, and then some.  This is by far the most useful training I've ever received."

Jennifer Ororke, HR Manager, Bay Valley Foods Dixon Plant.

Corporate Employee Drug User Recognition

Join ACE Hardware, John Deere and Company, Alcoa, K-Mart, W. W. Grainger, Caraustar, Illinois Masonry, Bay Valley Foods, Clipper Wind Power Inc., and other corporations who have trained their supervisors and managers in recognizing drug impaired employees using the unique Talbot Method. 

What Is The Talbot Method?
The Talbot Method is a unique two-step process of recognizing and documenting employee substance abuse impairment.  Totally hands-off, The Talbot Method trains supervisors that all drugs of abuse, when taken at an intoxicating dose, effect the eyes and body systems in known, predictable ways.  Recognizing these easy to spot drug effects allows a supervisor to start an intervention and thus maintain a safe and drug-free workplace.  Bruce R. Talbot Associates has several expert trainers in the field of drug impairment recognition and prevention ready to come to your site to help.

But Isn't There Liability In Looking For Drug Impairment Symptoms?
As the courts have ruled on drug-free workplace suits over the years, one of the most frequent corporate short comings has been failure to train supervisors and managers.  An employee discharged for failure to submit to a fitness for duty examination claims the company supervisor did not have reasonable grounds to make the fitness for duty request because there was no drug-impairment symptom recognition training given to the supervisor. 

The real liability is in ignoring drug impaired employees and thus creating an unsafe workplace.  When an employee is injured, the company can be held liable if it can be shown the injury was due to drug impairment and the company failed to take reasonable steps to recognize and remove the drug impaired employee. Training company supervisors and managers is liability protection!

Can My Company Afford This Training Program?
The real question is can you continue to afford NOT train your supervisors and managers to recognize drug impaired employees?  Unfortunately drug impairment effects EVERY company in America, no one sector of the economy is immune.  For example, between July 1999 and December 2002, 143 workers at Three Mile Island and Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station tested positive for drugs, according to a newspaper investigative report!

Do a cost/benefit analysis for your company:

• It is conservatively estimated by the federal government that 7.8% of the full-time American  workforce are drug impaired and these employees cost a company twenty-five percent of their yearly salary in abuse of sick time, (40 days per year vs. 4 1/2 days for a non-drug using employee) increased accidents and injuries (85% higher for drug users), in addition to lost productivity through drug-induced mistakes.

• Take 7.8% of your company employees times twenty-five percent of the average wage and now you see the hidden cost ignoring drugs in the workplace is costing your company.

• A company with 1,500 employees would expect to have 117 drug using employees.  If an average wage was $15.15 per hour, a twenty-five percent salary loss due to drug use would equate to a company-wide drug-loss of over $900,000.  Former General Motors Chairman Rodger Smith stated employee drug use cost GM over one billion dollars!

"You really captivated the participants with your knowledge. Quite a few of the guys announced that you were their favorite consultant!   We are looking forward to working with you again"

Jeanne Mueller, Training & Development, Clipper Wind Power Inc.

Training Options

We will train your supervisors and managers or license your corporate trainers
to deliver The Talbot Method

Licensing Option
Best for large organizations (such our client K-Mart) with many facilities and an in-house professional training staff.  Licensing includes drug and paraphernalia recognition kit, comprehensive PowerPoint training programs on CD ROM (customized with your corporate logo), video of actual drug impaired subjects, Instructor manual, and personal training session by a Bruce R. Talbot associate.  A certificate of training achievement is issued to each corporate trainer. Licensing is renewable yearly with updated material and refresher training included.

Training Options:

One-hour Employee Drug-User Awareness—Alerts managers and supervisors to the extend of employee drug use and what can be done to address the problem. Great team-building program for managers who do not directly supervise a team of employees and for employee work-groups and union officers.  Documents the need for drug-free work place programs.

Two-Hour Minimum Drug-Free Workplace Supervisory Training—Designed to meet the federal drug free workplace supervisor training requirement. Includes video of actual drug impaired subjects and close-ups of the unique symptoms different drugs like cocaine, heroin and marijuana produce.

Half-Day Employee Drug-User Recognition Training—Comprehensive training program incorporates the two-hour program plus fitness for duty training featuring urine, oral fluids, hair testing, drug concealment techniques, paraphernalia such as pot pipes, heroin balloons, crack cocaine and methamphetamine baggies and several real-life fitness for duty case studies from court decisions.  Medical emergencies which mimic drug impairment is presented for each category of drugs, an important safety and liability issue other programs fail to cover!

Costs
All training programs are delivered at a cost of $1,250 per day with a one-day minimum.  Any of the above programs and be included in a training day to satisfy any mix of employees.  In addition, travel and lodging from Chicago to the training is to be reimbursed, and an at-cost printing charge for participant training manuals is required.  Contact Bruce R. Talbot Associates for a formal cost quote based on your unique training needs.

Other Training Programs

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION
This dynamic training course, presented by Bill Hoogland, addresses threat assessment, violence prevention, intervention and response strategies, workplace factors that contribute to homicides, and key policy considerations and protocols, such as prevention through environmental design. The class features video clips of real workers who plotted killings in the workplace and will help the workplace manager can see into the mind of the violent employee. Designing your workplace to prevent violent assault and a workplace site safety survey are included in the training. 

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AWARENESS
A topic that every company in America should be offering on a regular basis to protect the organization from liability for failure to train. This training will bolster corporate policy and practices to avoid employee behavior that can be seen as creating a hostile workplace environment. Dr. Michael Drumm presents this class with his expert background in human behavior.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM
Although foreign nationals have captured the attention of American when considering terrorism, domestic terror organizations have been an active threat to American society for much longer.  This fascinating training programs provides all the information needed to understand the motives and operations on the many different domestic terrorism groups currently operating in America, how your corporation may be a target, and what steps you can take to address the threat.

COMBINED TRAININGS
Many of our corporate clients request combined training, such as Employee Drug User Recognition and Workplace Violence. This combination not only maximizes your training cost/benefit but also makes good training strategy because many workplace violence incidents involve a drug abusing employee!  Any of our individual training programs can be combined to fit your training needs.

ALL TOPICS CAN BE DELIVERED AS A LUNCHEON OR DINNER SPEECH
Bruce R. Talbot Associates has presented these topics at the prestigious City Club of Cleveland, the Union League Club in Chicago, the US Center for Disease Control's National Summer Workshop, the American Medical Association, and many others.

      "Entire workshop was excellent! Complete eye opener. Excellent class!"                                 comment from participant who attended Employee Drug User Recognition training      (Greenlee Textron employee).