Post Accident Testing
Criteria for Post Accident
Testing
A CDL driver must have a post accident drug and alcohol
test when:
- The driver is involved in an accident on a public road;
and,
- There is a fatality or injury that requires treatment
away from the scene and the covered employee receives a
citation under state or local law; or
- A vehicle is damaged so that it cannot be legally
driven during daylight hours after minor repairs (such
as pulling sheet metal away from a tire) and the
driver receives a citation under state or local law
(testing is not required if only lamps are broken).
Employee Responsibilities
- Render any aid that is necessary for public safety.
- Immediately report any accident to the supervisor or
other designated department official.
Employing Unit Responsibilities
- Ensure that each employee knows to whom an accident
must be reported, including how to report any accidents
that may occur outside of regular business hours.
- When an accident is reported, determine if it meets the criteria requiring post accident
drug and alcohol testing.
- If testing is required, complete the Test Authorization Form which
instructs the laboratory that both drug and alcohol
tests are to be performed.
- Transport the employee to immediately the collection site. Take the FEDERAL DRUG TESTING CUSTODY
AND CONTROL FORM and the completed Test Authorization Form and and
present both forms to the technician or receptionist.
- Note that some labs only do drug tests and
others to both drug and alcohol tests. be sure
to send the employee to a lab that does both
drug and alcohol testing.
- The employee may not refuse or defer the test.
- If an employee refuses for any reason to go for a test,
the refusal must be treated as a positive test. Contact
your Human
Resources Consultant (HRC) immediately.
- If an employee informs you that he/she expects to test
positive for drugs or alcohol the employee must be sent
for testing but do not allow the employee to drive
him/herself to the collection site. Contact your HRC immediately.
- Notify your unit's HRC.
- Maintain records relating to post accident testing in
accordance with Records Retention
and Confidentiality.
- This includes documentation as to the reason
that reasonable suspicion testing was required.
- Notify your unit's HRC of
the employee's test results.
- If testing cannot be accomplished as required by the
University's policy contact your unit's HRC.
- Maintain records relating to post accident testing in
accordance with Records Retention
and Confidentiality.
