"Your drug test came back positive, but that doesn't tell you if your worker is impaired right now."
This week Dr. Martin and James sit down with Ken Fichtler, CEO at Gaize.ai, to discuss the critical gap between detecting past drug use and identifying actual impairment in safety-sensitive environments.
Drawing from real-world cases where traditional drug tests created false positives and unnecessary terminations, they reveal why your current impairment detection strategy might be leaving workers exposed.
From cannabis legalization reshaping workplace policy to proactive screening creating deterrent effects, impairment detection has become a challenge in occupational safety that impacts companies' compliance status and worker safety.
Inside the Episode:
About Our Guest:
Ken Fichtler, CEO and founder of Gaize.ai, is a regulatory compliance and impairment detection expert with a technology and entrepreneurship background that evolved into decades of work understanding how cannabis and other drugs impact the body differently than alcohol. His focus on how detection technology impacts workplace safety brings a uniquely informed perspective on where impairment testing protects or compromises workplace safety.
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