Security & Risk Management: Implementation of commercial drug testing policy for automobile industry in Korea

Security & Risk Management: Implementation of commercial drug testing policy for automobile industry in Korea

Automobile industry has a potential future damage for both employees and employers and customers. If employees are under the influence of drug, they could routinely be late or absent for the job. Those misbehaviors affect other co-workers' behavior negatively since most of automobile workers are working on the assembly line. Sometimes, employees under the influence of drug could cause unrecoverable physical injury or loss of life. For employers, they have to pay for higher insurance fee for their employees who have potential risk to harmful accidents and also often have to face the huge amount of lawsuit against victims of incidents or employees who are terminated from the job. According to Luhmann (1993), a risk is a concept to be distinguished from the concept of danger. Risk is related to the potential future damage is due to his own decisions while danger relates to the possibility of a damage not caused by a decision or someone else's decision. Supported by Luhmann's concept of risk, decision making for implementing of commercial drug testing policy for the automobile manufacturing industry workers will reduce the risk for both employees and employers. Commercial drug testing policy in the workplace will become an important social policy in terms of risk reduction for both employees and employers although it has some degree of invasion of privacy issues and infringement of human rights issues. Eventually, drug testing in workplace will benefit for everybody in our society.