Drug Testing in the Workplace - Pivotal Perspectives

Drug testing in the workplace.

Congress passed the Drug-Free Workplace Act in April 1988, which resulted in the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs. The intent was to establish a substance-free work environment for all federal workers by requiring that all federal employees pass a urine drug test before employment. These guidelines specifically, and exclusively, focus on testing urine specimens f...

Prevalence of drug testing in the workplace

Tyler D. Hartwell, Paul D. Steele, Michael T. French, Nathaniel F. Rodman Substance abuse has compelled many U.S. firms to create strategies that would help keep it out of the workplace. Some firms have sponsored elaborate and extensive programs to control alcohol and drug misuse. However, these programs have tended to rely on a supervisor’s, a coworker’s, or an employee’s judgment about the pr...

Workplace Drug Testing: Evidence and issues

Alternative specimens for workplace drug testing.

Recent advances in analytical techniques have enabled the detection of drugs and drug metabolites in alternative biological specimens for the purposes of workplace testing. A wide variety of specimens are available, each providing valuable information concerning prior or current drug use. The present focus is on oral fluid (saliva), hair, and sweat. An extensive evaluation by the Division of Wo...

A snapshot of workplace drug testing in the UK.

BACKGROUND There is a growing trend towards workplace drug testing in the UK, but there is little published data associated with this work. AIM This survey reviews our findings from workplace drug testing in comparison with the results obtained from routine illicit drug monitoring. METHODS The results of the analysis of 1617 specimens from 82 workplace drug testing sources and 12,281 submit...