Can you cheat on drug and alcohol tests and get away with it?
Can you cheat on drug and alcohol tests and get away with it? Part one: How alcohol testing works. The short answer to that often asked question; “Can you cheat on drug and alcohol tests and get away with it?” is probably not. And it’s especially hard to do it if at all with DOT drug screening or alcohol testingRead the rest of this page »
Service Agents Series: Your Required Medical Review Officer or “MRO”
Your Required Medical Review Officer or “MRO” This is the third installment in a series about the roles of DOT Service Agents (SAs) the people who help you implement your drug free workplace program. After an employee participates in a DOT urine drug screen the specimen is sent by the urine collector to and processed by a DOT approved laboratory.Read the rest of this page »
Service Agent Series 2: Your DOT approved and certified lab
Your DOT approved and certified lab The DOT regulations require that motor carriers required to have a drug free workplace program work with a laboratory certified by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMSHA). How do you get set up with an approved lab? Most motor carriers work with a Third Party Administrators TPA who handles getting youRead the rest of this page »
What a DOT Urine Drug Screen Collector does
What the DOT Urine Collector does This is the first in a series of blog posts at mydrugtestingprogram.com where we’ll be discussing the roles of each of the Service Agents (SAs) that help you adminsiter your required DOT drug and alcohol testing program. Today we’ll be covering the role of the person working at a collection site that takes yourRead the rest of this page »
Your DOT Drug Program Service Agents
Your DOT Drug Program Service Agents Today we’re starting a blog-post series covering the roles of what the DOT/FMCSA call “Service Agents.” The FMCSA describes Service Agent as “…any person or entity, other than an employee of the motor carrier, used to help implement the DOT/FMCSA drug and alcohol testing regulations.” When you think of Service Agents (SA) here’s whoRead the rest of this page »
DOT Cuts Random Drug Testing Amount in Half
DOT Cuts Random Drug Testing Amount in Half In case you didn’t know it, the DOT and the FMSCA has cut the required amount of random drug testing in half. The required amount of random drug testing was cut in half to only 25%. The change is applicable whether the random pool your company’s employees are in is made upRead the rest of this page »
How much random testing do you need to do?
Do you have enough random drug and alcohol tests for the year? As a motor carriers required under federal regulations to have a random drug and alcohol testing program your program must meet the mandated minimum amount of random testing required. So how much testing is your company or organization required to do? The answer to that depends on severalRead the rest of this page »
Can you skip pre-employment testing?
When can you skip pre-employment testing? When you hire a new driver for your company or are an owner-operator starting your own DOT drug-free workplace program you’ve got to do pre-employment testing before hitting the road. If you skip it you are at risk for costly fines and might even be shut down depending on the situation. So does thatRead the rest of this page »
What types of testing are you required to do?
What types of testing are you required to do? If you are required to have a DOT drug testing under the regulations for motor carriers found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 49 part 382 and 40 , then there are 5 types of drug and 4 types of alcohol testing you must do when required. DOT approvedRead the rest of this page »
Surviving a DOT Audit
Surviving a DOT Audit Okay, so you just got a notification that an inspector from the Department of Transportation (DOT) will soon be paying your company a visit to do a compliance audit…and the panic sets in. But it doesn’t have to be scary as long as you know what to expect and are ready when they get there. SoRead the rest of this page »
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