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ABSTRACT
In 1988/89, a survey was conducted on a representative sample of human resource managers from 1,056 workplaces in Ontario with 50 or more employees. These same companies were contacted four years later in this 1992/93 survey. The main purpose of this survey was to examine how the nature and extent of work-place programs, such as Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), drug testing programs and Health Promotion Programs (HPPs), have changed over the past four years.
When the 1,056 workplaces were contacted, a large number (254) had gone out of business or were ineligible to participate in the study for other reasons, which left 802 workplaces in the study. From these 802 workplaces, 647 completed the questionnaire, producing a response rate of 80.7%.
The percentage of workplaces with EAPs increased dramatically from 16.1% in the 1989 survey to 32.0% in the 1993 survey. For workplaces that still had 50 or more employees in 1993, 39.4% had EAPs. The percentage of work sites with EAPs varied greatly among ten major work sectors. Government (51.4%) and health and education (45.7%) were most likely to have EAPs while retail trade (12.8%) and construction (3.3%) were least likely to have EAPs. In addition, larger unionized work sites were more likely to have EAPs.