Here is the current list of DFB's drug and alcohol courses for supervisors. Choose the courses you want to offer, then select the formats that work best for your company: online, CD-ROM, instructor-led, workbooks, and newsletters.

Click on the links below to see descriptions of specific courses.

• Supervisor roles in DFWP: inform, monitor, intervene
• Specific responsibilities for fulfilling these roles
• How this training will help supervisors: direct and carryover benefits
• What supervisors can expect to learn in the training: knowledge, skills, procedures

An in-depth look at the basics of the DFWP, which prepares supervisors to explain and support the program

• Workplace substance use: prevalence, impact on worker safety, health and productivity, impact on co-workers, harms to small and mid-sized businesses
• The economics of working drug free: worker support, program effectiveness
• DFWP program basics: history, program components, testing situations, testing process, policy components, employee protections, legal environment

An in-depth look at four common testing situations

• Job applicant testing
• Post-accident testing
• Post-rehabilitation testing
• Routine fitness-for-duty testing

The criteria for determining if a reasonable suspicion test for an employee is warranted.

• Direct workplace observation: definition, rationale, types of observations, contemporaneous and articulable
• Other bases for reasonable suspicion: third-party reports, drug-related convictions, other bases
• Practice cases

Up-to-date and scientifically accurate information about indicators of current employee drug and alcohol use

• Categories of signs: signs vs. symptoms and health risks, five categories of signs
• Signs of current alcohol use
• Signs of current illegal drug use: cannabinoids, cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, PCP

A step-by-step approach for effectively conducting reasonable suspicion testing

• Prepare: confirm, document, stage
• Meet: remove, conduct the meeting, decide
• Test: arrange, transport, resolve
• Follow Up: negative and positive results, complete documentation

Responding to Work Performance Problems

Explains a unique, step-by-step process for resolving work performance problems in a drug-free environment

• Observing problems: categories of work performance problems
• Responding to urgent problems: medical emergencies, reasonable suspicion
• Handling routine problems: assess, document, evaluate, confront, troubled employees, referrals, types of work-related problems, taking corrective action, follow up

An exploration of two barriers that supervisors must overcome in order to effectively confront employees

• The risks of delaying: overcoming reluctance, typical supervisor excuses
• The harms of enabling: explanation, types of enabling behaviors by supervisors

A look at how to confront an employee about a work performance problem

• Preparing, including getting organized, staging and adopting the right attitude
• Meeting with the employee, including opening the meeting, stating the problem and listening
• Taking action, including deciding on a course, getting agreement and documenting