Common use of Laboratory Testing For Alcohol and Drug Use Clause in Contracts

Laboratory Testing For Alcohol and Drug Use. All testing of samples will be performed by competent laboratory personnel at an SAMSHA-accredited medical facility to be selected by the Company. Alcohol testing by breath analysis shall be conducted in keeping with standards established and used for Department of Transportation alcohol testing. If said breath analysis is conducted in keeping with these standards, the Union shall not challenge the general reliability of breath analysis at any grievance procedure involved the affected employee. All blood specimens shall only be screened for the presence of alcohol and shall not be screened for the presence of other diseases or antibodies. All urine specimens shall be screened in accordance with medically accepted immunoassay procedures. For the purposes of this Agreement, a test result shall be considered “positive” when it is tested by using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) confirmatory test and exceeds cutoff levels set forth in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Guidelines for the Workplace Drug Testing Programs, published in the Federal Register on June 9, 1994 (as amended effective December 1, 1998). (See attachment to this MOU.) However, if during the life of this Agreement the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shall issue different cutoff values for GC/MS confirmatory procedures, those different cutoff values shall apply herein. Upon completion of the testing, the laboratory will transmit to the Company’s designated MRO, the written results of the tests that test positive, which shall be made available to the employee.