Workplace Drugs and Alcohol Training
Recognize impairment to maintain a safe, productive workplace.
Clear decisions in moments where impairment isn’t always obvious.
Substance use in the workplace isn’t always visible. Nearly 1 in 4 employees report it has impacted their work performance at some point, often in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. Everyday decisions involving alcohol, prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, and even legal substances like marijuana can quietly affect judgment, reaction time, and safety.
Traliant’s Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace training gives employees a clear, practical understanding of how substance use impacts performance, safety, and well-being across all work environments, including remote and hybrid. During the 15-minute course, learners explore what it means to be fit for duty, how expectations apply anywhere work happens, and why legality doesn’t change responsibility.
Optional 2-minute Micro Reels, available separately, reinforce key behaviors and help employees apply what they’ve learned in the moments that matter.
ONLINE TRAINING
Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
Through realistic scenarios and guided decision-making, employees learn to recognize warning signs and respond appropriately when something isn’t right.
Managers gain practical guidance on identifying patterns, addressing concerns early, documenting appropriately, and responding in ways that are consistent, compliant, and supportive.
The course covers these topics and more:
- How drugs and alcohol impact judgment, performance, and safety
- What it means to be fit for duty across in-person, remote, and hybrid work
- Why legal substances, including medications and marijuana, can still create risk
- Key warning signs of possible impairment
- Workplace expectations, policies, and accountability
- When and how to raise concerns about potential risks
- How managers identify patterns, respond appropriately, and document concerns
- Consequences of violations and the importance of early action
- Available support resources, including EAPs, counseling, and treatment options
What to consider when choosing the most effective drugs and alcohol in the workplace training
- Promote a safe and healthy workplace: Substance abuse can pose a significant safety risk to employees and to the organization as a whole. Training helps to create a safer work environment.
- Improve employee productivity: Substance abuse can negatively impact employee performance and productivity.
- Reduce legal and reputational risks: Organizations can face legal and reputational risks if they fail to address substance abuse issues in the workplace.
- Promote a safer, more productive workplace
- Help employees understand fitness-for-duty expectations
- Reduce risks related to impaired judgment, performance, and safety
- Support compliance with workplace policies and applicable laws
- Encourage employees to recognize concerns and seek help when needed
- Impaired judgment: Drugs and alcohol can impair judgment, making it difficult to make sound decisions.
- Reduced coordination: Drugs and alcohol can impair coordination and motor skills, increasing the risk of accidents.
- Slower reaction time: Drugs and alcohol can slow reaction time, making it difficult to respond quickly to emergencies.
- Increased risk of addiction: Repeated use of alcohol or drugs can lead to addiction.
- Workplace accidents and injuries: Substance misuse can increase the risk of accidents and injuries, both to the employee and to co-workers.
- Decreased productivity: Substance misuse can impair an employee's ability to concentrate and perform their job duties effectively.
- Harassing behavior: Substance misuse can increase the risk of aggressive or harassing behavior in the workplace.
- Theft or fraud: Employees who are struggling with substance abuse may be more likely to engage in theft or fraud.
- Changes in behavior: Changes in personality, mood swings, or unpredictable behavior.
- Changes in appearance: Changes in hygiene, grooming, or physical appearance.
- Decreased performance: Decline in work performance, such as missing deadlines, making more mistakes, or taking more sick time.
- Changes in work habits: Changes in attendance, punctuality, or work ethic.
- Financial problems: Experiencing financial difficulties or having trouble paying bills.
- Legal problems: Experiencing legal problems related to substance misuse, such as DUI arrests or traffic violations.
- Withdrawal from others: Withdrawing from social activities or isolating themselves from friends and family.
KEY FEATURES
Why you'll love our training
It’s time to embrace a new era of online training with a valued partner who will ensure seamless implementation, along with a learning experience your employees will truly enjoy.
Compliance expertise
Traliant's in-house legal expertise ensures training is accurate and kept up-to-date with any regulatory changes.
Accessible to users with disabilities
Traliant provides an inclusive experience for all users, including those with disabilities, by going beyond Section 508-C standards and offering WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA.
Story-based learning
Our story-based approach blends leading instructional design with Hollywood talent to produce engaging, interactive and nuanced training.
Course administration
Traliant makes it simple to roll out training to your workplace and provide technical support directly to your employees at no additional cost.
Course customizations
Tailor courses to include your logo, relevant policies, workplace images, and more. Traliant can even customize the course with scenarios that take place in your own workplace environment.
Translations
Training is available in English, Spanish and is supported in over 100 languages.
THE TRALIANT DIFFERENCE
Compliance you trust.
Training and solutions you love.
Legal expertise
Our in-house legal team is at the heart of our course development, writing content and ensuring compliance. As laws change, they provide real-time updates so you can trust your training is accurate and up to date.
Brilliant training
Each year we release brand-new, cinematic, Netflix-style courses with fresh stories, interactive scenarios, and industry-specific nuance. The result? A lasting impact on your culture and an experience employees will love.
Innovative solutions
With TikTok-style micro reels, advanced AI translations, phishing simulations, policy and handbook services, and analytics in one scalable platform, we make compliance simple and engaging now and into the future.
Valued partnership
Our main focus? It’s all about making your job easier. We do that with unmatched responsiveness and seamless deployment, dedicated to driving your success.
