Developing a Drug Free Workplace program is especially important in businesses where safety is an issue. Accidents and injuries can create severe hardships, not just for the victims, but also for the employer. A serious incident, especially if related to alcohol or other drug use, can shut down a small business.

FACT: Drug users at a minimum consume almost twice the medical benefits as nonusers, are absent 1.5 times as often, and make more than twice as many workers' compensation claims.

FACT: Every year, more than 17,000 motor vehicle fatalities are attributed to alcohol use (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration press release, May 1994).

If you're in any kind of manufacturing, no matter how small the company, you have to be concerned about safety hazards caused by drug users. It may be something as simple as driving a forklift, but people can get hurt.
-Owner of a small manufacturing company in Connecticut

I found out the hard way that employees often have multiple problems associated with drug use. Some of my employees had lines of credit with me. One who got injured in an accident while driving a tractor had a $3,500 line of credit. Then, I found out he was using it to finance his cocaine habit!
-Owner of a paving firm in suburban Maryland

Ref:http://www.samhsa.gov/