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New Years Resolution Solutions
- Daniel Feerst
If you made New Year's resolutions and are still hanging in there after a couple of weeks, [...]
Read More

Newsletter Ideas for Workplaces
- Daniel Feerst
Your newsletter is not worth very much if people do not read it. So, you want engagement, and that means having things in it the newsletter that people want to read. I am going to give you some sec...
Read More

Your first blog post!
- Daniel Feerst
Welcome to your blog! A blog is a great place to share details on your products, business and whatever else you think your shoppers might like to hear from you. You can include photos in your blog...
Read More

Could Your Employee Newsletter for Health and Workplace Wellness Help Prevent Suicide?
- Daniel Feerst
Suicide prevention certainly is a worthy goal, but why am I so surprised by how many people don't believe they have much of a role in this ageless problem? Suicide prevention is a lot like marketin...
Read More

Training the Supervisor to Engage with Employees and Implications for Effective Intervention in Reasonable Suspicion Training
- Daniel Feerst
Ceasing Dual Relationships and Conflict of Interest to Sabotage in Reasonable Suspicion
In most workplace settings, friendly relationships exist among the
employees. Moreover, it is not a bad ide...
Read More

Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know
- Daniel Feerst
Instead of sketchy street corners in bad neighborhoods and dangerous
alleys behind night clubs, more illicit drug users are turning to the internet
to get their fix. Unfortunately, you can buy pr...
Read More

Supervisor Training and Education Tips: The EAP Can Help You Overcome Insecurities
- Daniel Feerst
Supervisors often feel insecure and worry about how they come across to others in social situations.
Read More

Employee Assistance Program Usually the Best Choice When an Employee Speaks Up
- Dan Feerst
It is not unusual for employees to recommend resources to each other for dealing with problems, but the EAP is more often the best choice.[...]
Read More

Seven Unusual Benefit of DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training Online for Supervisors
- Daniel Feerst
You’ll be surprised to discover the not so often considered advantages of DOT compliance training online for drug and alcohol awareness. Let’s dive in.The U.S. Department of Transportation requires...
Read More

Reduce Risk with Workplace Sensitivity Training PowerPoints (ppt) Turned into Online Training Courses
- WorkExcel.com Staff
When employees come
together, everything in that makes them up as people comes with them. One tool
to improve workforce cohesion and influence employee behaviors in the direction of what is posit...
Read More

Better Zooming: Ten Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress and Isolation with Better Use of Zoom
- Dan Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
You can find more tip sheets on workplace wellness at http://HandoutsPlus.comWith the holidays just around the corner, millions of people are turning to Zoom video conferencing to relieve their fee...
Read More

Enjoy the Stress -- It's Not All Bad
- Daniel Feerst
Stress Isn't Always Bad for You -- Here's Why Although stress is a normal part of everyday life, we typically think of it as a bad thing. The reality is that some stress challenges us to improve ou...
Read More

Ten Signs of Burnout and How to Intervene with Yourself to Prevent It
- Daniel Feerst
Job burnout is officially recognized by the World Health Organization in 2019 as an occupational phenomenon. Here is the statement issued in July 2019:“Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resul...
Read More

DOT Supervisor Compliance Training Online
- Daniel Feerst
Substance Abuse in the
Workplace: 4 Essential Elements to Stop It From HappeningThe Department of Transportation (DOT) requires businesses
in the transportation industry to ensure that personnel ...
Read More

1 of 10 Excuses Employees will Use When Confronted by the Supervisor for Reasonable Suspicion of Workplace Substance Abuse

Workplace Wellness and Anger Management Education for Employees
- Steve Dell
This article for employee wellness was written by Steve
Dell Hypnotherapy and features ways in which you can improve workplace
wellness and positively manage anger.Reading
employee articles rel...
Read More

Employee Manipulation in Reasonable Suspicion Confrontations: #1 "But We Are Friends!"
- Daniel Feerst
CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE FULL PRODUCT FOR DOT SUPERVISOR TRAINING
Read More

Seven Ways to Make Your Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT (PowerPoint) Deliver More Impact for DOT Supervisors
- Daniel Feerst
CLICK IMAGE TO PREVIEWThere is no mystery as to what content must be included in a Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT for DOT Supervisors. The federal government is quite specific, but the ent...
Read More

Binge Drinking: Alcohol Awareness and Education for Employees
The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08
BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This level of binge drinking often
requires as little as a few drinks within an hour’s time in...
Read More

Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PowerPoint: What You Need to Say About Binge Drinking
- Daniel Feerst
The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08
BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This is a very simple definition. And
as you might guess, a lot people are guilty of binge dri...
Read More

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Should You Insert Information on Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know
- Daniel Feerst
Should a class full of supervisors waiting for a DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint to start also be given a little bit of information on teen substance abuse? I think they should. After ...
Read More

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Critical to Mention Fentanyl
- Daniel Feerst
We're adding Fentanyl information to the DOT Reasonable Suspicion PowerPoint, beginning next week. We will take the content directly from our Fentanyl program. Unless you’ve been living under a roc...
Read More

Manager's Handbook for Handling Traumatic Events in the Workplace [Awesome/Download]
- Employee Assistance Consultant, Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
I made a golden find on the Internet. You will want this resource!I am always on the hunt for great great resources for HR and EAP professionals that can help them manage employees and managers, an...
Read More


Be Sure to Educate Employees about "What They Can Do" to Help Prevent Opioid Addiction
- Daniel A. Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
Employees at work are a captured audience being paid on the clock. The beauty of this reality is that your can educate them about common problems and concerns, and offer solutions, tips, and expert...
Read More

Is DOT Training Mandatory?
Is DOT Training Mandatory? Who does the DOT Drug Testing
Regulations cover?The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991
requires drug and alcohol testing of safety-sensitive transporta...
Read More

Increase EAP Utilization, Program Value, and Build More Critical Workplace Relationships with the Right EAP Newsletter
Are you the victim of the
following dangerous EAP myth?
Many EA professionals falsely believe that their programs are safe from closure,
sale, contract loss, or takeover by managed care hotlin...
Read More

How SMS Will Keep Guests and Employees Safe in a Crisis
When a crisis
occurs, how you communicate with guests and employees matters. Safety is
important. If you are able tobe proactive and have strong communication skills, you are going to save lives
...
Read More

Help Employees Bounce Back After Disciplinary Actions to Reduce Risk, Lower Turnover, and Increase Productivity
No matter how well employees do their jobs, chances are they will have a corrective
interview
someday with their supervisor at least once--if you're an above average worker,
your chances incr...
Read More

Supervisor Humor in the Workplace May Undermine Productivity.
Humorous Supervisors May Not Produce Happy ResultsEverything in moderation...Humor
can motivate and engage employees according to research. But research
has found in some cases, that the boss’s...
Read More

Reasonable Suspicion Training: Is Your Biggest Enabler the Organization or the DOT Workplace--Itself?
You already know about enabling and enablers. These are the people alcoholics and addicts depend on to help them experience consequences associated with their substance abuse. All addicts will inte...
Read More

Top Seven Ways Employee Addicts Play Their DOT Supervisors -- (Making Reasonable Suspicion Training More Effective)
You’ve finally got the goods on an employee who is coming to
work drunk, and you appropriately confront him about his behavior. You may not
know it, but you’ve just put yourself
in the sights o...
Read More

Inhalant Abuse Among Employees: Should DOT Supervisor Training for Reasonable Suspicion Include This Substance?
For
some, getting high is as close as a can of spray paint or a few ounces
of gasoline. Inhalant abuse, often called “huffing, or “sniffing,””
generates a quick high from breathing a variety ...
Read More

Educate Employees about Major Depression Illness and Improve Productivity While You Save Lives
All mental health professionals conduct assessments and/or treat people for depression from time to time.
Some who suffer with this illness may
experience such ch...
Read More

#tompetty
alcohol and drug awareness training
tom petty
Tom Petty: What's the Rest of the Story? Truth about His Death -- Is It Acute Chronic Alcoholism.
Tom Petty is dead, but his overdose was only a dramatic symptom of his addictive disease. Don't be fooled. There is more to the story that you are not getting from the press concerning this tr...
Read More

customer service training
leading teams
managers training
supervisor training
team leadership
New WorkExcel.com Course! -- A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service
Sure
employees get training in customer service. That's critical. But,
unfortunately, there is one person who is in charge. It's the
supervisor. If supervisors don't know how to lead customer...
Read More

Managing Obesity in the Workplace − New Guidance from ACOEM
- Press Release
Evidence Supports Access to Bariatric Surgery and Other
Obesity Treatments
Effective prevention and treatment steps—including coverage for bariatric
surgery, when indicated—can help employers to...
Read More

More Empathy, Engagement, and Improved Communication are Keys to Reducing Workers' Comp Costs
The
research is clear--better
empathetic communication and engagement with injured workers can reduce
workers' compensation costs associated with their recovery.HR
and EAPs should collaborat...
Read More

Alcohol Awareness Training to Meet DOT: Don't Make It All about Signs and Symptoms
Alcohol awareness training
is an important function in every workplace where large numbers of employees
exist. Most alcohol awareness training is inadequate or too superficial. Before
purchasing...
Read More

dot supervisor training
enabling
reasonable suspicion training
Teen substancea abuse awareness training
Reasonable Suspicion Training Topic: Throw in Some News and Information on Teen Substance Abuse
- Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
We know that the U.S. Department of Transportation does not require that mandatory alcohol and drug education training for DOT supervisors include information like teen drug abuse, enabling, or eve...
Read More

Start Dealng with DOT Supervisor Myths to Make the Biggest Impact on Referrals to Testing
- Dan
DOT Supervisor Training and the impact of myths create the maintenance of stigma. They also serve avoid EAP referrals. Supevisors are also more likely to blame and anger at addict for performance i...
Read More

Advice for EAP professionals
dating co-workers
eap
employee assistance programs
romantic relationships at work
Hmm? Should I or Shouldn't I? Romantic Relationships at Work -- Guidance for Employees and EAP Direct Service
- Daniel Feerst
Busier lifestyles have made finding romance more difficult today than in recent memory. With communication technology often reducing human interaction to abbreviated text messages and shorthand ema...
Read More

Drug Awareness Training for Managers
Stop! If you are instituting drug awareness
training for managers, take one step backwards and put together a drug-free
workplace policy that recognizes addiction and alcoholism as a chronic dise...
Read More

DOT Powerpoint.
dot supervisor traing
DVD
reasonable suspicion training
Video
Web Course you own
DOT Supervisor Training: Part 1 of 5: Myths and Misconceptions that Don't Match Reality -- One of Five Ways Supervisors Cover Up, Enable, and Sabotage Drug Free Workplace Programs
- Daniel Feerst
Bill’s a great plumber. His skills are like nobody's—he’s
got the magic touch with plumbing and pipes, and he also has a lot on his mind
managing 20 other plumbers, assistants, and an office staf...
Read More

eap
employee assistance programs
epl
insurance
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense
Employee Assistance Programs: Understand the Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense
- Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP (800) 626-4327
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense is an argument used in court against lawsuits for employment complaints like sexual harassment. It can also be used as a defense against any other kind of l...
Read More

employee assistance programs
reducing risk
valued-added eap services
Employee Assistance Programs Can Support Employees Using Antidepressants to Reduce Elevated Risk of Death
- Dan Feerst
NEWS ITEM
Antidepressant medications, most commonly prescribed to reduce
depression and anxiety, increase the risk of death, according to new
findings by a McMaster-led team of researchers....
Read More

eap
employee assistance programs
p-c insurers
property casualty insurance
risk management
risk managers
workers compensation
EAPs Massively Overlooked as Customer Risk Reduction Tools by Property Casualty Insurers and Risk Managers
- Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
Lew sat quietly in his office at the Chino Mines in the 1950's trying
to find a solution to a massive problem he was hired to fix. Lewis
Presnall, D. Div.-- was a pastoral counselor hired by Ke...
Read More

depression
eap
loneliness
lonely
Employee Assistance Programs and the Lonely EAP Client (Is Loneliness the New Obesity?)
- Daniel Feerst
Loneliness—it’s the reason why we reach out for one another in the middle of
the night. The reason we sit beneath the stars and make wishes. The reason we
make music, the reason we commit ourselv...
Read More

drug abuse
drug and alcohol awareness education
drug and alcohol education for employees
employee training
Seven Reasons Business Organizations Should Offer Employee Drug and Alcohol Awareness Education
I
haven't spoken to you in probably a month, but I wanted to ask if you
provide education and awareness to employees concerning alcohol and
other drugs of abuse. There are powerful reasons fo...
Read More

fake id
parenting teens
Parenting and Fake ID’s: What’s to Know?
- Daniel Feerst
Teens obtaining fake identification is nothing new. Although
most states have made it more difficult to duplicate a driver’s license since
9/11, young adults can still purchase IDs that make them...
Read More
Top news from the WorkExcel.com
Subscribe & get our weekly newsletter in your inbox.

Top news from the WorkExcel.com
Subscribe & get our weekly newsletter in your inbox.


New Years Resolution Solutions
- Daniel Feerst
If you made New Year's resolutions and are still hanging in there after a couple of weeks, [...]
Read More


Newsletter Ideas for Workplaces
- Daniel Feerst
Your newsletter is not worth very much if people do not read it. So, you want engagement, and that means having things in it the newsletter that people want to read. I am going to give you some sec...
Read More


Your first blog post!
- Daniel Feerst
Welcome to your blog! A blog is a great place to share details on your products, business and whatever else you think your shoppers might like to hear from you. You can include photos in your blog...
Read More


Could Your Employee Newsletter for Health and Workplace Wellness Help Prevent Suicide?
- Daniel Feerst
Suicide prevention certainly is a worthy goal, but why am I so surprised by how many people don't believe they have much of a role in this ageless problem? Suicide prevention is a lot like marketin...
Read More


Training the Supervisor to Engage with Employees and Implications for Effective Intervention in Reasonable Suspicion Training
- Daniel Feerst
Ceasing Dual Relationships and Conflict of Interest to Sabotage in Reasonable Suspicion
In most workplace settings, friendly relationships exist among the
employees. Moreover, it is not a bad ide...
Read More


Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know
- Daniel Feerst
Instead of sketchy street corners in bad neighborhoods and dangerous
alleys behind night clubs, more illicit drug users are turning to the internet
to get their fix. Unfortunately, you can buy pr...
Read More


Supervisor Training and Education Tips: The EAP Can Help You Overcome Insecurities
- Daniel Feerst
Supervisors often feel insecure and worry about how they come across to others in social situations.
Read More


Employee Assistance Program Usually the Best Choice When an Employee Speaks Up
- Dan Feerst
It is not unusual for employees to recommend resources to each other for dealing with problems, but the EAP is more often the best choice.[...]
Read More


Seven Unusual Benefit of DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training Online for Supervisors
- Daniel Feerst
You’ll be surprised to discover the not so often considered advantages of DOT compliance training online for drug and alcohol awareness. Let’s dive in.The U.S. Department of Transportation requires...
Read More


Reduce Risk with Workplace Sensitivity Training PowerPoints (ppt) Turned into Online Training Courses
- WorkExcel.com Staff
When employees come
together, everything in that makes them up as people comes with them. One tool
to improve workforce cohesion and influence employee behaviors in the direction of what is posit...
Read More


Better Zooming: Ten Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress and Isolation with Better Use of Zoom
- Dan Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
You can find more tip sheets on workplace wellness at http://HandoutsPlus.comWith the holidays just around the corner, millions of people are turning to Zoom video conferencing to relieve their fee...
Read More


Enjoy the Stress -- It's Not All Bad
- Daniel Feerst
Stress Isn't Always Bad for You -- Here's Why Although stress is a normal part of everyday life, we typically think of it as a bad thing. The reality is that some stress challenges us to improve ou...
Read More


Ten Signs of Burnout and How to Intervene with Yourself to Prevent It
- Daniel Feerst
Job burnout is officially recognized by the World Health Organization in 2019 as an occupational phenomenon. Here is the statement issued in July 2019:“Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resul...
Read More


DOT Supervisor Compliance Training Online
- Daniel Feerst
Substance Abuse in the
Workplace: 4 Essential Elements to Stop It From HappeningThe Department of Transportation (DOT) requires businesses
in the transportation industry to ensure that personnel ...
Read More


1 of 10 Excuses Employees will Use When Confronted by the Supervisor for Reasonable Suspicion of Workplace Substance Abuse


Workplace Wellness and Anger Management Education for Employees
- Steve Dell
This article for employee wellness was written by Steve
Dell Hypnotherapy and features ways in which you can improve workplace
wellness and positively manage anger.Reading
employee articles rel...
Read More


Employee Manipulation in Reasonable Suspicion Confrontations: #1 "But We Are Friends!"
- Daniel Feerst
CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE FULL PRODUCT FOR DOT SUPERVISOR TRAINING
Read More


Seven Ways to Make Your Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT (PowerPoint) Deliver More Impact for DOT Supervisors
- Daniel Feerst
CLICK IMAGE TO PREVIEWThere is no mystery as to what content must be included in a Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT for DOT Supervisors. The federal government is quite specific, but the ent...
Read More


Binge Drinking: Alcohol Awareness and Education for Employees
The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08
BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This level of binge drinking often
requires as little as a few drinks within an hour’s time in...
Read More


Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PowerPoint: What You Need to Say About Binge Drinking
- Daniel Feerst
The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08
BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This is a very simple definition. And
as you might guess, a lot people are guilty of binge dri...
Read More


DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Should You Insert Information on Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know
- Daniel Feerst
Should a class full of supervisors waiting for a DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint to start also be given a little bit of information on teen substance abuse? I think they should. After ...
Read More


DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Critical to Mention Fentanyl
- Daniel Feerst
We're adding Fentanyl information to the DOT Reasonable Suspicion PowerPoint, beginning next week. We will take the content directly from our Fentanyl program. Unless you’ve been living under a roc...
Read More
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Manager's Handbook for Handling Traumatic Events in the Workplace [Awesome/Download]
- Employee Assistance Consultant, Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
I made a golden find on the Internet. You will want this resource!I am always on the hunt for great great resources for HR and EAP professionals that can help them manage employees and managers, an...
Read More




Be Sure to Educate Employees about "What They Can Do" to Help Prevent Opioid Addiction
- Daniel A. Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
Employees at work are a captured audience being paid on the clock. The beauty of this reality is that your can educate them about common problems and concerns, and offer solutions, tips, and expert...
Read More


Is DOT Training Mandatory?
Is DOT Training Mandatory? Who does the DOT Drug Testing
Regulations cover?The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991
requires drug and alcohol testing of safety-sensitive transporta...
Read More


Increase EAP Utilization, Program Value, and Build More Critical Workplace Relationships with the Right EAP Newsletter
Are you the victim of the
following dangerous EAP myth?
Many EA professionals falsely believe that their programs are safe from closure,
sale, contract loss, or takeover by managed care hotlin...
Read More


How SMS Will Keep Guests and Employees Safe in a Crisis
When a crisis
occurs, how you communicate with guests and employees matters. Safety is
important. If you are able tobe proactive and have strong communication skills, you are going to save lives
...
Read More


Help Employees Bounce Back After Disciplinary Actions to Reduce Risk, Lower Turnover, and Increase Productivity
No matter how well employees do their jobs, chances are they will have a corrective
interview
someday with their supervisor at least once--if you're an above average worker,
your chances incr...
Read More


Supervisor Humor in the Workplace May Undermine Productivity.
Humorous Supervisors May Not Produce Happy ResultsEverything in moderation...Humor
can motivate and engage employees according to research. But research
has found in some cases, that the boss’s...
Read More


Reasonable Suspicion Training: Is Your Biggest Enabler the Organization or the DOT Workplace--Itself?
You already know about enabling and enablers. These are the people alcoholics and addicts depend on to help them experience consequences associated with their substance abuse. All addicts will inte...
Read More


Top Seven Ways Employee Addicts Play Their DOT Supervisors -- (Making Reasonable Suspicion Training More Effective)
You’ve finally got the goods on an employee who is coming to
work drunk, and you appropriately confront him about his behavior. You may not
know it, but you’ve just put yourself
in the sights o...
Read More


Inhalant Abuse Among Employees: Should DOT Supervisor Training for Reasonable Suspicion Include This Substance?
For
some, getting high is as close as a can of spray paint or a few ounces
of gasoline. Inhalant abuse, often called “huffing, or “sniffing,””
generates a quick high from breathing a variety ...
Read More


Educate Employees about Major Depression Illness and Improve Productivity While You Save Lives
All mental health professionals conduct assessments and/or treat people for depression from time to time.
Some who suffer with this illness may
experience such ch...
Read More


#tompetty
alcohol and drug awareness training
tom petty
Tom Petty: What's the Rest of the Story? Truth about His Death -- Is It Acute Chronic Alcoholism.
Tom Petty is dead, but his overdose was only a dramatic symptom of his addictive disease. Don't be fooled. There is more to the story that you are not getting from the press concerning this tr...
Read More


customer service training
leading teams
managers training
supervisor training
team leadership
New WorkExcel.com Course! -- A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service
Sure
employees get training in customer service. That's critical. But,
unfortunately, there is one person who is in charge. It's the
supervisor. If supervisors don't know how to lead customer...
Read More


Managing Obesity in the Workplace − New Guidance from ACOEM
- Press Release
Evidence Supports Access to Bariatric Surgery and Other
Obesity Treatments
Effective prevention and treatment steps—including coverage for bariatric
surgery, when indicated—can help employers to...
Read More


More Empathy, Engagement, and Improved Communication are Keys to Reducing Workers' Comp Costs
The
research is clear--better
empathetic communication and engagement with injured workers can reduce
workers' compensation costs associated with their recovery.HR
and EAPs should collaborat...
Read More


Alcohol Awareness Training to Meet DOT: Don't Make It All about Signs and Symptoms
Alcohol awareness training
is an important function in every workplace where large numbers of employees
exist. Most alcohol awareness training is inadequate or too superficial. Before
purchasing...
Read More


dot supervisor training
enabling
reasonable suspicion training
Teen substancea abuse awareness training
Reasonable Suspicion Training Topic: Throw in Some News and Information on Teen Substance Abuse
- Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
We know that the U.S. Department of Transportation does not require that mandatory alcohol and drug education training for DOT supervisors include information like teen drug abuse, enabling, or eve...
Read More


Start Dealng with DOT Supervisor Myths to Make the Biggest Impact on Referrals to Testing
- Dan
DOT Supervisor Training and the impact of myths create the maintenance of stigma. They also serve avoid EAP referrals. Supevisors are also more likely to blame and anger at addict for performance i...
Read More


Advice for EAP professionals
dating co-workers
eap
employee assistance programs
romantic relationships at work
Hmm? Should I or Shouldn't I? Romantic Relationships at Work -- Guidance for Employees and EAP Direct Service
- Daniel Feerst
Busier lifestyles have made finding romance more difficult today than in recent memory. With communication technology often reducing human interaction to abbreviated text messages and shorthand ema...
Read More


Drug Awareness Training for Managers
Stop! If you are instituting drug awareness
training for managers, take one step backwards and put together a drug-free
workplace policy that recognizes addiction and alcoholism as a chronic dise...
Read More


DOT Powerpoint.
dot supervisor traing
DVD
reasonable suspicion training
Video
Web Course you own
DOT Supervisor Training: Part 1 of 5: Myths and Misconceptions that Don't Match Reality -- One of Five Ways Supervisors Cover Up, Enable, and Sabotage Drug Free Workplace Programs
- Daniel Feerst
Bill’s a great plumber. His skills are like nobody's—he’s
got the magic touch with plumbing and pipes, and he also has a lot on his mind
managing 20 other plumbers, assistants, and an office staf...
Read More


eap
employee assistance programs
epl
insurance
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense
Employee Assistance Programs: Understand the Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense
- Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP (800) 626-4327
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense is an argument used in court against lawsuits for employment complaints like sexual harassment. It can also be used as a defense against any other kind of l...
Read More


employee assistance programs
reducing risk
valued-added eap services
Employee Assistance Programs Can Support Employees Using Antidepressants to Reduce Elevated Risk of Death
- Dan Feerst
NEWS ITEM
Antidepressant medications, most commonly prescribed to reduce
depression and anxiety, increase the risk of death, according to new
findings by a McMaster-led team of researchers....
Read More


eap
employee assistance programs
p-c insurers
property casualty insurance
risk management
risk managers
workers compensation
EAPs Massively Overlooked as Customer Risk Reduction Tools by Property Casualty Insurers and Risk Managers
- Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
Lew sat quietly in his office at the Chino Mines in the 1950's trying
to find a solution to a massive problem he was hired to fix. Lewis
Presnall, D. Div.-- was a pastoral counselor hired by Ke...
Read More


depression
eap
loneliness
lonely
Employee Assistance Programs and the Lonely EAP Client (Is Loneliness the New Obesity?)
- Daniel Feerst
Loneliness—it’s the reason why we reach out for one another in the middle of
the night. The reason we sit beneath the stars and make wishes. The reason we
make music, the reason we commit ourselv...
Read More


drug abuse
drug and alcohol awareness education
drug and alcohol education for employees
employee training
Seven Reasons Business Organizations Should Offer Employee Drug and Alcohol Awareness Education
I
haven't spoken to you in probably a month, but I wanted to ask if you
provide education and awareness to employees concerning alcohol and
other drugs of abuse. There are powerful reasons fo...
Read More


fake id
parenting teens
Parenting and Fake ID’s: What’s to Know?
- Daniel Feerst
Teens obtaining fake identification is nothing new. Although
most states have made it more difficult to duplicate a driver’s license since
9/11, young adults can still purchase IDs that make them...
Read More