Q. Can an employer do an instant drug screen on a DOT employee at the same time as the DOT urine collection that is sent to the lab so they know the results immediately?

It may come as a surprise that some drug test kits don’t actually detect the drug named on the kit. Instead, the kits detect one or more metabolites of the drug…

Q. Do our BAT and Collector certifications need to be posted for the patients to see, or do they just need to be posted somewhere in the clinic, or do they even have to be posted at all?

On-site drug test kits form a line to indicate the presence or absence of drug in a specimen. A first-time operator typically expects that the drug test will form a line to indicate a positive result….

Manufacturers of DOT breath alcohol testing instruments are required to write a Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) for each instrument that is approved for DOT alcohol testing. Manufacturers submit their QAP to DOT for approval.

Intoximeters recently announced that all DOT instruments will now carry a two-year factory warranty. Following is a list of instruments that are covered by the new warranty policy….

Although most specimen collections go smoothly, as a professional specimen collector in the Department of Transportation (DOT) drug testing process you may sometimes be confronted by uncooperative donors.