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Newshound
07-26-2013, 01:24 PM
In a Policy Talk paper just written for the Australian Drug Foundation, workplace drug and alcohol experts Dr Ken Pidd and Professor Ann Roche report that alcohol use is responsible for:


five per cent of all Australian workplace deaths, and
up to 11 per cent of non-fatal injuries.



Australian Drug Foundation Head of Workplace Services, Phillip Collins said the annual cost of absenteeism due to alcohol alone is estimate at up to $1.2 billion.

Read more ... (http://www.adf.org.au/media-centre/drug-and-alcohol-cost-to-workplaces)