About Drug-Free Work Week

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Held annually in October, Drug-Free Work Week is a public awareness campaign that highlights the importance of being drug free to workplace safety and encourages workers with alcohol and drug problems to seek help.

Drug-Free Work Week is an outcome of DOL’s Drug-Free Workplace Alliance, a cooperative agreement focused on improving safety and health in the construction industry through drug-free workplace programs.  The first Drug-Free Work Week was held in 2006, and in subsequent years, more and more organizations—representing a range of industries—also rallied behind the effort, helping firmly establish it as an annual opportunity to reinforce to employers and employees alike that “working drug free works.”

Today, Drug-Free Work Week is implemented by DOL’s Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace program in collaboration with a number of organizations, including not only members of the Drug-Free Workplace Alliance, but also several Federal government agencies and non-profit associations focused on alcohol and drug abuse prevention and/or workplace safety and health.  Together, these organizations help spread the word to encourage individual workplaces to conduct activities—reflecting the true spirit of Drug-Free Work Week.

All organizations are encouraged to take part in Drug-Free Work Week.  To learn more about how to do so, or to get Drug-Free Work Week resources, select one of the following:

• Ideas for Individual Employers and their Employees
• Ideas for Associations and Unions
• Drug-Free Work Week Tool Box
• Ideas for Community Coalitions
  & Neighborhood Organizations

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