What Employers Should Know Before Scheduling Mobile Drug Testing
A short checklist for the first time you bring a collector on-site: the space you need, the paperwork, the timing and what to tell your employees.
Post-Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing Basics
What triggers a post-accident test, how fast it has to happen, why alcohol is tested first, and what to do while the collector is on the way.
Reasonable Suspicion Testing Basics
What reasonable suspicion means, who can make the call, how to document it and how to handle the collection without turning the workplace upside down.
Drug Testing Specimen Types: Urine, Hair, Oral Fluid, Breath and Blood
Each specimen answers a different question over a different window of time. A plain comparison, including which ones DOT programs may use.
Hair vs. Urine Drug Testing: Which One Answers Your Question?
Urine shows recent use; hair shows a pattern over months. Here is how to choose, when to use both, and what each cannot tell you.
Alcohol Testing Options: Breath, EtG and What Each One Tells You
Breath measures impairment right now; EtG shows drinking over recent days. Which one fits post-accident, reasonable suspicion, random and monitoring programs.
DOT vs. Non-DOT Drug Testing: What Employers Need to Know
The two programs use different rules, forms, methods and reporting. Here is how to tell which one applies to each employee and what changes when it does.