health based workplace drug testing
we make workplace drug testing easy…
Workplace drug testing results can have very serious ramifications for people. This is why we are so heavily focused upon accreditation, compliance and maintaining a caring health based approach.
We make drug testing easy because we:
- respond: our customer service staff are available 24/7 every day.
- introduce: consult, develop & introduce drug and alcohol programs with ease.
- report: interpret, summarise and assist you with drug test results & trends.
- comply: hold the highest possible accreditation in on-site drug testing.
- perform: with the strongest service collection & support capability in Australia & NZ.
- customise: think you’ve got an impossible workplace drug & alcohol challenge? Try us.
looking for a complete drug & alcohol program?
then look no further…
We’ve been specialising solely in workplace drug testing for the past 20 years.
We can help with a turn-key & complete drug and alcohol program or you can simply select the services you’d like; such as
- providing everything from test equipment, policy development, training & education, advice and statistical or custom reporting
- helping you establish, maintain or improve a complete and compliant workplace drug testing program that suits your unique needs
- customising a system for you or allowing you to simply choose the components you would like to include and amend as required
- salvaging programs which have been poorly serviced or found to be non-compliant. We have a reputation for doing things correctly!
compliant drug and alcohol testing
The term: “compliant drug and alcohol testing” is poorly understood. It is often confused with quality assurance or simplified to only include collector training or using test kits that have been independently evaluated.
There are a myriad of compliance components required to achieve a truly compliant drug testing program. A program that relies upon individual aspects alone would be far from compliant and easily at risk of legal issues.
Fit4Duty is one of the first organisations to achieve comprehensive Quality Assurance and NATA accreditation. Accordingly; you can be confident that our test results are as legally defensible as possible and while providing the highest level of care to your staff.
why health professionals?
Couldn’t anyone perform a drug test?
Well in a perfect world where everyone is negative and nobody takes medications or feels anxious about taking a drug and alcohol test, or fears that the stiff arm of the law has arrived at work – it possibly doesn’t matter all that much.
However, more often than not; people can feel anxious when encountering a drug and alcohol test and have concerns like those surrounding the privacy and handling of their test results or fear of cross reacting medications.
In fact, those not taking illicit drugs are likely to be taking some sort of medication for which only a health professional can adequately deal with the myriad of possible cross reactivity issues and then properly explain this to the person being tested (and from a health-care medical perspective).
Only a small fraction of your workforce are likely to test positive for drugs or alcohol, but to make sure that drugs and alcohol are not a problem in your workplace, testing needs to occur regularly and cover most of your workforce.
As an employer, we understand that you can be anxious to ensure that your workforce is treated with respect and that staff who test negative have a good experience during testing and can get on with their work without disruption.
We also understand that most people that we test will not test positive and their experience with the testing process must also be performed respectfully and with a caring approach.
Our health professional collectors are trained in ensuring that your workplace is not unduly disrupted by testing activities and that all staff are treated with respect, privacy and concern for their health and welfare.
Our staff are very skilled in performing testing efficiently and compliantly whilst ensuring that your valuable staff are not affected by testing activities more than is entirely necessary for the safety of your workplace.
how to implement a drug and alcohol program
there are no such things as little mistakes in drug and alcohol programs…
Many organisations struggle with drug and alcohol policy development, corporate communications, stakeholder consultation, articulating the program to staff, dealing with questions surrounding privacy & medications and the mechanics of getting a program kicked off.
There are a myriad of pitfalls from the outset which can be easily avoided. The most common error starts in adopting incorrect terminology and technical aspects in drug and alcohol testing policies and procedures (sometimes sourced from incorrect technical information received or inherited from other programs).
Further complications can emerge from inadequate stakeholder engagement, endeavours to implement a testing program that is either too rigid or inadequate or simply not establishing program goals & objectives and monitoring progress from the outset.
This is where it is certainly well worthwhile engaging the assistance of experts in drug testing programs, technical processes and systems. There are very few scenarios we haven’t encountered before and we pride ourselves on innovation and solutions to address sometimes complex problems.
We work with you on each step of the implementation process, we provide you with as much or as little support as you need to get your program in place and operating as seamlessly as you could wish for.
A good starting point would be to contact our professional staff for a confidential discussion. From there we can help you to formulate an effective and compliant implementation and monitoring strategy.
If you’re already some way down the path and finding yourself in a pickle; reach out to us as we are very likely to be able to help.
