Vampire Tasks: 3 Blood-Sucking Routines That Drain Life

As a drug screening company, you stay up to date with new laws and regulations. And such appear quite often.

A recent research offers an un-surprising fact: the number and restrictiveness of drug and alcohol policies in the US has been steadily growing in the last 20 years.

Tracing them down is quite a laborious task. But it’s not the worst one.

In this blog, we’ll discuss what vampire tasks suck most of life out of your teams and how we leverage AI solutions to change that.

Let’s get started!

Vampire task 1: Checking up legal updates

Who likes reading tons of legal papers to trace updates? Not many.

A typical HR manager spends tons of time researching, reviewing, and updating compliance regulations. This includes 3 hours a week only to review labor laws. If employee training is needed, an HR manager spends 5 hrs. a week per training to research and prepare materials in accordance with the latest regulations.

That’s hard but important. Ditching policies is quite a risk. Since substance abuse costs the United States about $400 billion annually, and half of this cost is paid by the state, there are all indicators of more restrictions and updates to wait for in the future.

Moreover, failing to have strong drug and alcohol policies in-house is prone to penalties.

Vampire task 2: Auditing client’s documentation

Going through compliance policies is a laborious routine, which is also quite risky. Skipping important policies or keeping them not updated cannot just cost money but also risk human life and health. On the average, 5,000 deaths a workplace take place every year in the United States. At the same time, alcohol contributes to between 5% and 40% of all emergency department injury presentations across 27 world countries.

Having strong policies in place reduces the risk of substance abuse by about 30%, which improves the situation considerably.

Vampire task 3: Shaping recommendation and action plans

Preparing recommendations means a lot of research on the best practices of substance use compliance. And many factors to consider. For example, some policies work great with younger people and mess with older counterparts. It’s like in the case of punitive policies.

A study recently published in Sage Journal presents shocking statistics: a punitive workplace policy is associated with higher rates of opioid use among workers aged ≤ 34.

Imagine working on policy recommendations that will eventually turn out to be counterproductive. What hit to the reputation could it be?

AI automation for routine audits and recommendations

AI is great at taking into consideration numerous factors to make policy recommendations that work in every specific setting. With AI, you can take into account different factors like the staff age, demographics, and the distribution of jobs and positions. The level of personalization will be huge.

Intelligent document processing mechanisms also allow you to automate audits, meaning you don’t have to read documents one by one. You simply load data into the system, run them through the AI tool, and get alerted on issues.

What is more important is that you can train a custom AI tool based on your company’s best practices so it becomes an extension of your best-prepared employees.

Gains you receive when using a custom AI solution

AI is great at considering various data to make policy recommendations that work in every specific setting. With AI, you can tune your solution to staff age, demographics, and the distribution of jobs and positions. The level of personalization will be huge.

Intelligent document processing mechanisms also allow you to automate audits, meaning you don’t have to read documents one by one. You simply load data into the system, run it through the AI tool, and get alerted on issues.

What is more important is that you can train a custom AI tool based on your company’s best practices so it becomes an extension of your best-prepared employees.

Gains you receive when using a custom AI solution

Automating life-draining routines frees your team to do something more productive. For example, they can create compliance designs, invent new ways to attract customers and think of new services you can add to your portfolio. As a business owner, you can:

-          Serve more customers at a time – when speeding up, you have space for more people to attract as your customers.

-          Specialize on niches – having tools that can analyze huge data in place, you can devise specific solutions for different business niches and gain an advantage over your competitors.

-          Scale – with the previous two benefits, you have time and resources to think about business growth.

In fact, there are more opportunities when AI mechanisms are in place. When used professionally, it can be like each of your employees is getting a personal assistant and starts thinking strategically to contribute to the company’s growth.

Interested to learn more about customized AI solutions for drug screening agencies?

Contact eNest for a free consultation and advice. You will get a one-on-one meeting with our AI specialist, who will check your business case and will provide you with the best-fitting solution. Book your meeting now!