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USDOT Guidelines Regarding COVID-19

Written by csdesign on . Posted in Drug Free Workplace, Drug Testing, Motor Carrier Compliance.

On March 23rd the USDOT issued guidance regarding the COVID-19 (the Corona Virus).

In short the USDOT is not waiving the drug & alcohol testing regulations during this public health crisis.  Your company is still expected to comply with the regulations including random testing and pre-employment testing.

AZC Drug Testing Employee Screening Services is open for business and is here to assist you during this time of concern.  The best way to protect your employees is to utilize facilities such as ours that do not treat illnesses or do medical testing or that have mobile testing facilities like ours. We have Arizona’s only fleet of self-contained mobile collections trucks.

Our employees have stepped up their cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing of our facility and equipment to ensure that your employees and our staff are as safe as possible. We also have self-contained mobile collections trucks based out of both Tucson and Phoenix that can bring the collection site to your facility.

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FMCSA Increases Random Testing Rate for 2020

Written by csdesign on . Posted in Drug Testing, Motor Carrier Compliance.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced in the Federal Register on December 27th that they are increasing the random drug testing rate for safety sensitive employees for 2020 from 25% annually to 50% annually as a result of the MIS data for the most recent reporting year indicating that the positive rate is greater than 1%. For the official Federal Register announcement please see https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/notices/2019-28164

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FRA Announces 2019 Random Testing Rates

Written by csdesign on . Posted in Drug Testing.

The Federal Railroad Administration announced in the December 28, 2018 Federal Register that the random drug and alcohol rates for 2019 will remain unchanged.  The annual random testing rate for Covered Service Employees will remain at 25% for drug and 10% for alcohol and Maintenance of Way Employees will remain at 50% for drug and 25% for alcohol.

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Coast Guard Increases Random Testing Rate for 2019

Written by csdesign on . Posted in Drug Testing.

The United States Coast Guard announced in the Federal Register on December 28th that they are increasing the random drug testing rate for covered crewmembers for 2019 from 25% annually to 50% annually as a result of the MIS data for the most recent reporting year indicating that the positive rate is greater than 1%. For the official Federal Register announcement please see https://www.govinfo.gov/…/…/FR-2018-12-28/pdf/2018-28231.pdf

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PHMSA Announces 2019 Random Testing Rate

Written by csdesign on . Posted in Drug Testing.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced in the December 11, 2018 Federal Register that the random drug testing rate for 2019 will remain unchanged at 50% annually.  PHMSA currently does not require random alcohol testing.  Please see https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-12-11/pdf/2018-26750.pdf for the official publication of the 2019 PHMSA random testing rate.