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Colorado employers run drug testing programs inside a legal landscape that is more layered than most states. Marijuana is legal for adults under the state constitution,...
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Clinical laboratories, research labs, and reference labs sit in an unusual spot when it comes to drug testing policy. Many of these facilities already handle controlled...
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A candidate takes a pre-employment drug test and the result is not a clean negative. What happens next is not a single event. It is a...
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An occupational health clinic builds a reliable drug testing program by splitting the book of business into two lanes: a non-DOT lane, where instant point of...
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Pest control technicians work in a combination that makes employers nervous for good reason. They hold a state issued pesticide applicator license, they drive a company...
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Washington does not have a broad statute that regulates workplace drug testing across the board the way a handful of other states do. What it has...
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Colleges and universities sit at an unusual intersection of employment law. A single campus can employ commercial drivers who fall under United States Department of Transportation...
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Hemp seeds, hemp hearts, and hemp seed oil are sold as food products in grocery stores and supplement aisles, and most people assume they are completely...
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Arkansas does not force most private employers to run a drug testing program. What the state offers instead is a voluntary framework, built around a workers...
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Lifeguards occupy an unusual spot in the drug testing world. The job is safety sensitive in an obvious way, a guard who is impaired is responsible...
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Medical students are often surprised to learn that their school is not the entity requiring a drug screen. In most cases the school is relaying a...
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Oxycodone is a semi-synthetic opioid sold under brand names like OxyContin, Roxicodone, and in combination products like Percocet. It is a Schedule II controlled substance, prescribed...
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A staffing agency drug testing program has to move as fast as the placement pipeline, because a candidate who is not cleared by the time a...
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West Virginia is one of the few states with a stand alone statute built specifically around workplace drug testing. The West Virginia Safer Workplace Act, codified...
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Tennessee does not force any private employer to drug test. Instead, the state built an incentive program: employers who set up a certified Drug-Free Workplace Program...
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Oral fluid, commonly called a mouth swab or saliva test, works on a different scale than urine testing. The federal government sets specific cutoff concentrations for...
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A TCA drug test screens a urine specimen for tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline, nortriptyline, doxepin, and imipramine, typically at a 300 or 1,000 ng/mL immunoassay...
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Skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and other long term care settings carry a combination of risk factors that few other workplaces share. Staff have routine,...
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New Hampshire employers asking whether state law controls workplace drug testing will not find a dedicated private sector testing statute on the books. That makes New...
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Nebraska is one of the smaller group of states with its own standalone workplace drug and alcohol testing statute. Employers that test applicants or employees in...
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An EtG alcohol test is a urine test that detects ethyl glucuronide, a metabolite the body makes after alcohol exposure, and it can show drinking for...
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Alabama does not force private employers to drug test, and it does not force them to skip it either. What the state offers instead is a...
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Michigan has no single statute that requires or forbids private employer drug testing. There is no Michigan drug free workplace certification program comparable to programs run...
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People searching for "firefighter drug testing requirements" are usually looking for one federal rule that tells every department what to do. That rule does not exist....
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