A background check is probably the standard level check across all industries. In the financial industry, we do see a common request for credit checks. Drug checks are less common, mostly due to the expenses involved. An ounce of prevention can go a long ways toward preventing fraud, as the staff at one hospital learned. Because each of those things costs money, we work it out with the customer to determine which kinds of checks are most important.
Most employees are essentially honest.
But, if given the opportunity to commit a crime and possibly not get caught, the temptation is often more than they can resist. No one likes to think the worst of people, but every company should consider itself a potential target of fraud. Most employees are honest, and they want to believe that their coworkers are the same way. When someone is accused of being dishonest, it creates an incredibly decisive issue in the workplace. People end up feeling there s an overriding element of distrust within the workplace.