Drug addiction is not only harmful but expensive too. Actually, it’s not called “addiction” anymore. Substance use disorder is an all-too-common reason for the deterioration of workplace performance and affects the overall productivity and profit of the business. Each year, drug use disorders cost workplaces millions of dollars due to reduced productivity and additional healthcare [...]
Workplace drug use is on the rise. Employee drug abuse impairs employees’ ability to function correctly, resulting in increased safety risk and lost productivity. In the United States, about 70% of drug users consumed illicit opioids on the job. The biggest problems show up in the food & beverage, construction, transportation, and healthcare industries. Sometimes [...]
Article courtesy of Sarah Carey Drug abuse is an issue that’s gaining a lot of attention as a health and safety risk in the workplace. Employers find it necessary to implement an effective (sometimes) zero-tolerance drug policy in the workplace. Both public and private employers find a 5-panel drug screen helpful in their drug screening [...]
We have a number of seasonal employers who lay off some or all of their employees during the "off season", what do we do about the random drug and alcohol testing program? How does seasonal employers work with a random drug and alcohol testing program? For non-regulated employers, you have some discretion. We have a [...]
Annual Random Testing Rates for PHMSA for calendar year 2019 remains unchanged. The DOT agency has decided the minimum random drug testing rates will remain at 50%. This was announced in the federal register.
FAA has released their annual random testing rates and they remain unchanged for 2019 at 25% for random drug testing and 10% for random alcohol testing. This covers all safety-sensitive employees. As per the federal register notice: Pursuant to 14 CFR 120.109(b), the FAA Administrator’s decision on whether to change the minimum annual random drug testing [...]
The US Coast Guard has announced it's annual random testing rate for drugs. It's increased from 25% in 2018 to 50% in 2019. The increase can be attributed to a positive rate of greater than 1% in the most recent reporting year as per MIS data. Random drug testing acts as a major deterrent to [...]
DOT Agencies release random annual testing rates every calendar year. The random drug and alcohol testing rates are determined by various factors and can go up, down or remain unchanged based on the number of positive test results in the previous year. As per the federal register notice, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has kept [...]
The random rates for 2019 will remain at 25% for drug and 10% for alcohol. As per the Part 382 language below, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration does not post a Federal Register notice unless they are changing the random rate. 382.305(f) The FMCSA Administrator's decision to increase or decrease the minimum annual percentage [...]
Each agency under the US Dept of Transportation sets its own random testing rates. As a general rule, rates go up when thee is a pattern of increased positive test results, and they go down when positive results decline. Effective January 1, 2019, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will increase the minimum rate of random [...]
