Can a TPA provide DOT follow-up testing schedules to an employer? No, as per § 40.355 – What limitations apply to the activities of service agents? Except as provided in paragraph (h) of this section, you must not make decisions to test an employee based upon reasonable suspicion, post-accident, return-to-duty, and follow-up determination criteria. These Read more »
Compliance
Putting your employee back to work after failing a drug test
§ 40.305 How does the return-to-duty process conclude? (a) As the employer, if you decide that you want to permit the employee to return to the performance of safety-sensitive functions, you must ensure that the employee takes a return-to-duty test. This test cannot occur until after the SAP has determined that the employee has successfully Read more »
What is DOT Drug Testing?
DOT is short for Department Of Transportation. The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 is a United States federal law that requires alcohol and drug testing for employees in the trucking, mass transit, pipe lines and railroads. The vast majority of employees who work in the transportation industry are covered by this act. Methamphetamine, Read more »