TY - JOUR 
A1 - Dos Marques, Paulo Henriques
AU - Jacinto, Celeste
T1 - Screening for psychoactive substances at the workplace: A review
Y1 - 2014
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/4672
AB - lthough  the  goal  of  reducing  occupational  accidents  is  often  used  as  an  argument  to  justify workplace screening programs on psychoactive substances, the literature on the topic shows lack of scientific basis for such assumption. Among other reasons, few publications offer quantitative studies, and even fewer areable to provide sound statistical evidence of this cause-to-effect relationship. This paper provides a litera-ture review on the subject and discusses the current knowledge in this field. The review shows that more re-search  is  needed  to  establish  causal  links  between  individual  submission  to  psychoactive  substances  testing and subsequent  accident  reduction.  In the aftermath of this review the authors suggest that such  relationship should be evaluated by comparing empirical evidence of accident rates among workers previously tested, with accident rates among workers untested, all other things being equal.
KW - Seguridad en el trabajo
KW - Accidentes laborales
KW - Seguridad en el trabajo
KW - Prevención de accidentes
LA - eng
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -