Dear Sarah,
I have very subjective ideas on this topic having been involved in A&D testing when in previous employments.
The role of OH is not to act as the policing agency of the employer, and therefore should (if involved in A&D testing at all) restrict itself to the physical collection of the specimen as per a 'Chain of Custody' procedure.
The decision to test, not to test, regular test, or random test an individual should be made at the management/HR level not at the clinical one. In any event, with appropriate training any part of the organisation (e.g. Security) could perform these tests, it does not have to be the OH service.
Kind regards, Bob
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Witwicka
Sent: 18 February 2011 10:34
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Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] Alcohol Testing - thoughts please
Hello all
At the moment our substance misuse policy states that if an employee is referred to OH, they follow a set proceedure. This proceedure includes "possible in-house random testing for a period of up to 3 to 6 months duration whilst under voluntary support programmes". The employee can consent or refuse to "undertake the drug and alcohol screening / rehabilitation programme / proceedure.
Our (new) OHP is not happy re any random testing and has said that they are going to re-write the policy to exclude any random testing. I'm not sure whether that's such a good idea, but that's just me perhaps.
Please can you say whether it's a good idea to remove OH randomly testing where indicated or not?
Best wishes,
S :-)
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