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Drug testing both saliva and urine can be OK in the workplace

Drug testing both saliva and urine can be OK in the workplace, says Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission For the first time, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has endorsed an employer's right to enforce a drug testing regime that incorporates both random saliva and urine testing, in an important decision which gives employers more scope to manage safety risks in the workplace (Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union ‒ Construction and General Division v Port Kembla Coal Terminal Limited [2015] FWCFB 4075). Although the Full Bench allowed the CFMEU's appeal, it still concluded that a policy that required employees to undergo both forms of testing was reasonable , given the deterrent value of the testing and its role in allowing the employer to identify and manage safety risks at the workplace. Read more

Changes to Australian Standard AS4308:2008

The updated AS4308-2008 Standard has made fundamental changes in sample collection and Laboratory confirmation testing. Here are some of the key points: Summary: The standard requires collectors to have completed a nationally accredited course in drug screen collection and/or onsite testing. What is evident is that clients performing their own collections will need to have their staff sign off if they wish to collect samples and/or do onsite tests in accordance with Section 2 of the new standard. The standard and NATA also requires laboratories to state unequivocally on the report the status of collections and their compliance to Section 2 Where a collection is not performed by a registered WDP collector the following will appear on the WDP report. ‘This sample has not been collected by a registered WDP collector. Cannot be verified compliant with AS4308:2008Section 2’. The New Collection Procedure The changes to collection are to do with the mandatory splitting of samp

What are Australian Standards Requirements 'REALLY'

Australian Standards for Urine and Saliva Drug Tests I thought it was about time to clear this one up, as there is just so much misinformation around the internet about Australian Standards compliance and those organisations that try to create the idea that they are the only company that create an Australian Standards drug test and all others are all making false claims and are somehow in breach of the ACCC Fair Trading Act. Lets get the facts! Australian Standards cut-off levels for Urine tests (copied straight from the Australian Standards): ASNZS 4308-2008 TABLE 1 IMMUNOASSAY SCREENING TEST CUT-OFF LEVELS Class of drug* Cut-off level, μg/L Amphetamine type substances                                 300 Benzodiazepines                                                      200 Cannabis metabolites                                                 50 Cocaine metabolites                                                 300 Opiates