Alcohol abuse affects a large number of workers in Europe. Alcoholism affects all socio-professional classes.
Some jobs require sustained attention, generating mental fatigue.
Workers may then use alcohol as a psychostimulant. All the causes of stress, disagreement with the employer, conflict between employees, lack of breaks, fatigue, boredom, repetition, encourage the consumption of alcohol in the workplace. At this level of blood alcohol, there is an increase in reaction time, increased errors in response to visual or auditory stimuli, and constriction of the peripheral visual field. The risk of accidents is therefore greater, and learning, intellectual and memorisation capacities are altered. The cost of alcoholism to a business is extremely variable depending on circumstances.