• Ensure your drug test panel is effective for non-DOT compliance and follow regulated employee-testing guidelines.
• Have a comprehensive definition of “refusal to test.”
• Ensure your post-accident testing provision is effective and meets OSHA guidelines.
• Te DER should also make sure the policy is being applied in a reasonable and consistent manner. Compliance with a policy can be recorded in various ways. Maintain training records for drug and alcohol education. All absence, accident, and work performance records should be reviewed regularly.
• Testing results information is also a valuable monitoring tool as well. Look at
your negative results as the marker of a successful policy.
Choose a good drug testing service provider.
If your policy includes testing, remember that your service provider should be a good source of information for implementing a drug testing program. When involved early in the policy- creation process, the service provider can give valuable help. A good drug/alcohol service provider will have properly trained and certified collection technicians. Tey should also have a Certified Professional Collector on-site. A good drug/alcohol service provider can also assist you with training for your supervisors. ❚
Brenda LaChance spent 19 years as a fleet safety director for several compa- nies in the state of Maine. She actively participated with the Maine Motor
Transport Association (MMTA), where she chaired several committees and received several OSHA certifications through the Maine SafetyWorks program. For the past five years, Brenda has managed occu- pational health/medicine clinics, most recently at WorkPartners Occupational Health. She is a Certified Physician Prac- tice Manager (CPPM) and a DATIA-Certified Professional Collector Trainer (CPCT) pro- viding support and training to staff.
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