Show Causes By CECIL CARLE has been referred to as industry's multi-million dollar Conservative estimates problem-drinking employees arc costing industry THE LOSS consists of work accidents and new expenditures to train replacements for alcoholics who have become The safety factor may be most glaring in the cases of drunk driving covered in a recent one of these but the Los Angeles County Coroner's which must make autopsies for all violent or suspicious says is responsible for sudden fatalities in aviation and in the homes and tool shops of private STATISTICS show that five percent of all male employees alone suffer from alcoholism for between five and seven years before their problems are really The alcoholic usually stays on a payroll until unable to function properly and most are able to cover their illness until it Is too YET THE alcoholic can recover if he or family and friends detect his abuse of alcohol early enough to ask for help from such an agency as the Utah Alcoholism phone or the Utah State Division of Alcoholism and phone have counseling service for employees on how to deal with these delicate Practically every industry and large corporation in today is concerned deeply with the problem of salvaging problem-drinking MANY have departments offering aid to alcoholic The human factor naturally plays a great but hard-core economics Is enough to prompt such The president of a large insurance company recently reported that his company spends to train a college graduate to become an Loss of that man to alcoholism means money down the drain and the training of someone to fill his C. medical director of Lockhead calls the traditional dismissal of a worker a triple tragedy to employee and family and to Barren directs a program which is credited with helping 60 percent of the corporations employees who have drinking SO VITAL is the detection and treatment of alcoholism to industry that the National Council on Alcoholism holds five two-day seminars on the disease and its problems annually in St. Pittsburgh and Los FROM many industrial studies comes the profile on the alcoholic likely 35 to 55 years of age who has been on job with a good record for 10 or 15 The average alcoholic worker is absent about twice as reports late more has more loss-time produces less and makes more mistakes than the average American Management Association recently business world now acknowledges four facts about alcoholism and the 1 ALCOHOLISM is an not a moral 2 It can be 3 The is worth 4 He himself is often the to recognize or accept his The latter fact is the first thing the helpful person at the Utah Alcoholism Foundation is likely to tell someone who calls for advice on how to an- an alcoholic SINCE have certain personality other advice given You hope a small reprimand for lateness or hangover will make him mend accept do not bringing Up JJ cussing a T scare J. It won't every 5 let turn avoid i his drinking fa Be quickly agrees t It can easily i fop that if why he drinks t j can adjust as he AND TELL knowing he canU aj in Alcoholics |