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Hi Sue,
What happened to the 3 young people that you picked up? Am just being nosy!!
Regards,
Helen
> Message date : Mar 05 2004, 11:54 PM
> From : "Sue Mclaren" <[log in to unmask]>
> To : [log in to unmask]
> Copy to :
> Subject : Re: pre-employment medicals
> Hi Nicola, I currently tried this in the company I am with at present and HR
> asked candidates to put their completed questionnaires in an envelope marked
> confidential to be passed on to me. The questionairre contained basic
> questions and yes no tick boxes and was also based on risk assessment for
> the area. Also disability was covered. This appeared to be going great guns
> as my current company has a terrific turnover rate. However, the town I work
> in also has a high incidence of drug use especially Heroin and of course you
> can guess what happenned. Do users declare health problems or a disability
> in the sense they have a "medical" condition which interferes with daily
> living activities (open to debate here)? This week I went back to seeing
> everyone albeit for a quick BP roll up the sleeves and check. This does not
> always of course indicate what is happenning as some heavy users "clean up"
> prior to getting a job for money and further supplies and inject in legs,
> groins etc with the intention of "chipping" when money comes in. If a
> swollen ankle doesn't give the person away then some still slip by the net.
> This week 3 young people were picked up by the face to face approach even
> with a quick check and at 15 minute intervals. Tough work but saves the
> Drugs and Alchol testing which American companies sometimes demand for
> Pre-Employment and the time this involves. I albeit grudgingly have gone
> back to face to face. Perhaps also the fact that the Company also had a
> medical centre with medications on site prior to my arrival also got out on
> the local grapevine too? Nothing much in there but my experience taught me
> that needles and syringes are always welcome and thank goodness we have now
> moved to non-treatment. Just my 2 penneth for what it is worth. Kind
> regards, Sue Mclaren
> http://www.ohnurse.co.uk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicola Spencer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:53 PM
> Subject: pre-employment medicals
>
>
> > we currently see every new employee for a pre-emp medical. I want to
> change
> > to a paper screen only with the interviewee carrying out a hygiene
> > assessment (food industry). Does anyone else do this or have an assessment
> > form that I can adapt? Also they would like HR to clear the employee if
> all
> > the questions are ticked no. Is this ethical? Ideas please.
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Helen Hannar
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