Organizational Development Services

Organizational Development Services To Build A Reliable Team

Arbutus Work Solutions recognizes that the most productive and safest workplace for everyone is a workplace where substance use and misuse is not a factor. Often employers have a substance use policy that states that any drug and alcohol use is strictly forbidden in the workplace. Licensing boards and industry associations demand their professionals to be fit and well to operate machinery or work with people. Living and working responsibly, free from substance misuse, is an expectation for any safety-sensitive role.

Arbutus Work Solutions can help employers and licensing bodies create and promote comprehensive and effective substance use prevention policies and procedures. Whether you are a small or large company, contact us to see how we can help.

Build legal and Effective Policies and Procedures

Arbutus Work Solutions has the expertise, capacity, and experience to help Canadian business owners to create effective and embraced substance abuse prevention policies. We will work with you to develop custom programs that will deliver results.

Through onsite visits, web conferencing, and telephone meetings with all stakeholders, we will help you build legal and effective policies and procedures, and help you implement them in your workforce and workplace. We will work to support your goal of having policies and procedures that are supported by both management and employees at all levels, thereby creating a healthy, substance misuse-free workplace.

Workplace Intervention Services

What Organizational and Workplace Intervention Services May Be Required?

A workplace can sometimes contribute to unhealthy behaviors that involve substance misuse. When a culture of marijuana or alcohol use in the workplace becomes the norm, many employers struggle to find an intervention approach that is non-punitive and effective. Employees/professionals and employers may even become complicit to these behaviors, thereby compromising the safety and productivity of the workplace.

Arbutus Work Solutions has the expertise to help employers transform a culture of substance misuse. Working with boards, management committees, executives, and business owners, we will examine the historical framework that led to this condition, and then work with all stakeholders to recommend and implement strategies that are cost-effective, respectful, and meaningful. Change management takes time, and we will be a long-term partner working with you towards a safe and successful workplace.

New! Supervisor Training and Employee Orientation Courses

Arbutus Work Solutions is pleased to offer two new courses for companies who require their supervisors to have training in recognizing substance abuse in the workplace.

Supervisor Intervention Training

Supervisors’ Intervention Training

This course intended to improve the supervisor(s) ability to recognize substance abuse in the workplace. Attendees will also gain an understanding of employee(s) who may be troubled by substance abuse and learn how to approach them in a legally defensible manner. Participants will learn about the tests available, and how to perform Point-of-care testing, and schedule lab testing and/or breath alcohol tests. This is a 1-Day course conducted at the company location. XX students are required to book a class. A short test will be conducted at the end of the course.

Employee Orientation Course

Employee Orientation Course

This course developed by Arbutus Work Solutions, based on their 25 years of combined expertise in this field, introduces employees to the company’s substance abuse prevention policies. The goal is to inform and gain support for the company policies. This is a 1-Day course conducted at the company location. XX students are required to book a class.

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Please call our office for further information on these courses or other organizational development services you might need.