What should I have in my Drug and Alcohol Testing Program?

Policy Questions Applied Medical Can Help With

What type of tests should my company do?
What drugs should I test for?
Who will I drug and alcohol test?
Who is the Designated Employer Representative (DER) that gets the results?
What will we do for a positive drug or alcohol test result?
If I do random testing, what will the rate be?
Should I do post accident testing?
Have my supervisors received a good supervisor reasonable suspicion training that deals with intervention?
Have my employees received drug and alcohol awareness training?
Who is my drug and alcohol-testing consortium?
Who is the laboratory?
What devices do we use to test?
Who is the Medical Review Officer?
Why should I pre-employ drug test the prospective employee before doing a pre-work screen?
What are the costs associated with a comprehensive Drug and Alchohol testing program?

This class should involve any supervisors who directly oversee federally mandated safety sensitive employees or any employees in a non-mandated testing situation or policy oriented testing.
This class should involve a specific detailed section on intervention
It should be at least 2 hours in length to cover all the required and suggested material
All future supervisors should immediately take this class to promote consistency.

At the beginning of a testing program all employees effected by the companies drug and alcohol policy should receive one hour of training along with policy review
All employees should sign off on an acknowledgement that they received the training and understood it.
Place this form in their drug and alcohol file.
Make sure this training is included in all new hire packs.
The training should include information on the drugs that are being tested for.
It should include signs and symptoms of being on these drugs.
EAP or other sources for referral or treatment available to them.
When is it acceptable to use these sources and when it is not?