United States Department of Transportation
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:This document is part of a two-volume set prepared under the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) General Technical Assistance Program, to provide guidance to the recipients of FTA funding that are required to test their safety-sensitive employees for drug use and alcohol misuse. This volume discusses "best practices" used by employers to establish and maintain a compliant testing program. The other volume, Implementation Guidelines for Drug and Alcohol Regulations in Mass Transit, explains the regulatory requirements, which were revised in 2001. The best practices discussed here were identified during 5 years of FTA-sponsored audits of existing programs. They are responses to the requirements that allow for flexibility in how to comply, i.e., areas where employers have to choose between different options and areas where they may want to exceed the minimum FTA requirements. This document identifies the areas where choices are required, the issues involved in making those choices, and "real world" examples of choices made. The discussions are organized according to the four required elements of an FTA anti-drug use and alcohol misuse program: (1) a program policy statement, (2) an education and training program, (3) a testing program, and (4) a procedure for referring policy violators to a substance abuse professional.
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