Engelsk titel: Alcohol and drug abuse prevention in Norwegian workplaces
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Författare:
Grimsmo A
;
Fröyland K
Email: kjetil.froyland@chello.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 23
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 06093628
Sammanfattning
AIM: This article discusses Norwegian
employers’ and employees’ way of
dealing with alcohol- and drug use
among colleagues. The article outlines
steps made in Norwegian companies
to prevent alcohol- and drug problems
among employees.
METHODS: Interviews have been carried out in
50 companies belonging to different
business fields. A national survey has
been carried out among 890 companies.
RESULTS: About 40% of Norwegian businesses
have organized alcohol or drug
preventive programs in the workplace.
We have found many different versions
of programmes, most of them based
on a few main models for alcohol- and
drug prevention in the workplace.
It is first and foremost in the large
companies that such programmes
are implemented. The prevention
programmes are often directed at
helping individuals with serious drinking
problems, or at the establishment
of a workplace program. Our data,
however, indicate that most employees
stay passive and rarely intervene in
relation to emerging alcohol- or drug
problems among colleges. The issue of
alcohol- and drug use is experienced
as a difficult topic to relate adequately by employers as well as
employees. Only 9% of
Norwegian businesses
think that they are actually
working towards the
prevention of alcohol and
drug abuse.
CONCLUSIONS: Our data show that several
methods for alcohol and
drug prevention in the
workplace exist, but that
they should be practised to
a larger degree. The shift to
primary prevention directed
at the entire workforce
seems to have not yet
reached companies and
employees in Norwegian
work life. Changes in
direction towards more
health promotion, early and
primary intervention are
suggested.