Christine is a forty-three-year-old woman who is the director of the human resources department at a large chrome stripping company. In order to help reduce the costs related to employee alcoholism and alcohol abuse, excessive sick days, work related injuries, poor employee work performance, and increasing absenteeism, Christine and the other members of top management initiated a number of programs that made the work environment significantly more healthy, more productive, and safe.

As an example, eleven years ago Christine and the other VIPs instituted an Employee's Assistance Program so that all the employees had access to professional counseling for their personal problems that could unfavorably affect their personal well-being, health, and their work performance.

As another illustration, just about seven years ago Christine and the other VIPs erected a state-of-the-art workout and exercise room complete with weights, many different types of exercise equipment, scales, exercise charts, a personal trainer during business hours, and mirrors.

As another example, approximately a year-and-a-half ago, Christine and the other company executives sponsored a "Weight-Watchers" class that presently meets every workday at noon until 1:00 PM. In addition, top management employed a weight-loss nurse to run the program.

In the last seven months, in conjunction with the Employee's Assistance Program, Christine and the other VIPs instituted an "Anger Management" class for employees who want to learn how to better manage their anger issues.

In the last three months, Christine and the other members of top management started an alcohol and drug testing program that is linked with their drug and alcohol abuse prevention program. In truth, Christine is the main individual in the company responsible for getting the message out to all the employees about the drug and alcohol testing program as well as the drug and alcohol abuse prevention program.

Another fairly recent enhancement to the drug and alcohol abuse prevention program is a class entitled "Alcohol Statistics and Facts." The reasoning behind this alcohol statistics facts class is that several people are unsuccessful in their attempt to comprehend the full impact of the consequences of alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse without first hearing about some of the alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency facts and statistics that are available. As a result, one of the goals of this class is to provide a range of alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics and facts to help employees gain a better understanding of the large number of difficulties that are correlated with hazardous and abusive drinking and how they can avert these problems from occurring.

Most recently, Christine and the other members of top management, via feedback from workers, started a class that focuses directly on severe drinking entitled "What is Alcoholism"? This class meets every Friday morning an hour before work and focuses largely on the differences between alcohol abuse and alcoholism, on some of the main differences between statistics on alcohol abuse and statistics on alcoholism, and on the kinds of rehabilitation that are available for people who have alcohol drinking problems such as individuals who drink in a hazardous manner.

Even though every one of these preventative maintenance and health programs was fairly expensive, the VIPs think that they are many thousands of dollars ahead by providing all of their workers with a more productive, safe, and healthy working situation.

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