Workplaces and Substance Use: Oil and Gas Industry

Provides key context, data, and recommendations on improving the substance use health of employees for employers and other partners (e.g., unions, associations, health professionals) in the oil and gas industry, based on input from the focus group study with workers from the oil and gas industry. This brief is part of the Workplaces and Substance Use series.

Three key points of interest you will find in the document:

• About 2 in 10 (23%) oil and gas workers and managers in safety-sensitive positions and 1 in 10 (11%) workers and managers in non-safety-sensitive positions reported consuming alcohol or other drugs within two hours before or during work, or being hungover, intoxicated or feeling high while at work.
• Between 12% and 38% of oil and gas industry participants in the study thought that substance use was an issue in their workplace.
• Workplace culture, pressure to use, and stigma were three of the most common risk and protective factors in the workplace that can influence substance use among workers and managers, according to participants from the oil and gas industry study.