O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 34-9-417 (2019)

Education program on substance abuse

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) During the initial year of certification as provided in Code Section 34-9-412.1, an employer must provide all employees with a semiannual education program on substance abuse, in general, and its effects on the workplace, specifically. During the initial year, the first hour of the education program must include but is not limited to the following information:

(1) The explanation of the disease model of addiction for alcohol and drugs;

(2) The effects and dangers of the commonly abused substances in the workplace; and

(3) The company’s policies and procedures regarding substance abuse in the workplace and how employees who wish to obtain substance abuse treatment can do so.

(b) During the second and any consecutive subsequent years of certification, an employer must provide all employees with an annual education program.

History

(Code 1981, § 34-9-417, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1512, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 800, § 7.)

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1993, ‘‘semiannual’’ was substituted for ‘‘semi-annual’’ in

the first sentence of the introductory language (now subsection (a)).