DOT Published Guidance regarding workplace testing during COVID-19 The following websites offer DOT agency specific guidelines on drug and alcohol testing during the COVID-19 pandemic: ODAPC Guidance FMCSA Guidance FAA Guidance USCG Guidance A recent AlcoPro blog article covers additional testing precautions testing professionals can take, including helpful breathalyzer disinfecting instructions. Testing Precautions Amid COVID-19 […]

Article appearing 4/26/2017 on the Washington Post website and written by Ashley Halsey III. For the first time, statistics show that drivers killed in crashes are more likely to be on drugs than drunk. Forty-three percent of drivers tested in fatal crashes in 2015 had used a legal or illegal drug, eclipsing the 37 percent who […]

Expanded Opioid Testing: Regulation Changes. HHS Expanded Opioid Testing and Allowance of Oral Fluid Testing. On Monday, January 23, 2017 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) agencies issued a notice for revisions to the the mandatory guidelines for federal workplace drug trusting programs […]

Detection of illicit drugs increased slightly both for general and ‘safety-sensitive’ workforce. The share of U.S. workers testing positive for illicit drug use reached its highest level in a decade, according to data from millions of workplace drug tests administered by Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the nation’s largest medical-screening laboratories.  Read more of this […]