Our customers frequently ask for assistance in selecting an alcohol gas tank for use with an Alco-Sensor – should they use an .038 tank, a .082 tank, or a .100 tank? Can they calibrate with a .082 tank and do accuracy checks with a .038 tank? Here’s the scoop on how we answer these questions.
Nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers may raise the risk of turning to heroin use
A new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) shows that people aged 12 to 49 who had used prescription pain relievers nonmedically were 19 times more likely to…
Study: Companies Pay Almost $6,000 Extra Per Year for Each Employee Who Smokes
A new study suggests that U.S. businesses pay almost $6,000 per year extra for each employee who smokes compared to the cost to employ a person who has never smoked cigarettes…
Direct Observation Collections All Around?
“A trucking company wants to do all of their collections for DOT-covered employees using direct observation procedures. Is this allowable?”
NTSB Recommends 0.05% Legal Alcohol Limit
e National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently made several recommendations intended to reduce the number of alcohol-related automotive deaths, including a recommendation for all 50 states to lower the legal blood alcohol content level (BAC) to 0.05 or less….
What’s a Calibration Technician?
Some of the nuances in the DOT regulations are the training requirements to perform Accuracy Checks and to perform Calibration Adjustments. Because so many people confuse the calibration terminology we’ll begin with a review of these two procedures….
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Three Things to Know About Ethanol Gas Standards
Compressed alcohol gas has become the favored calibration standard to maintain the accuracy of breath testing instruments. Compressed gas has several advantages compared to simulators, the only other method of producing an alcohol standard. Compressed gas is portable, does not need AC power, is instantly ready to use (see below for the exception), has relatively long shelf life, and is easy to use. However, there are several key issues that breath alcohol operators must know about alcohol gas standards to ensure they give accurate results….
NTSB recommends lowering legal limit to 0.05 BAC
The National Transportation Safety Board voted to recommend to states that they lower the blood-alcohol content that constitutes drunken driving. Currently, all 50 states have set a BAC level of .08…
DEA’s National Take-Back Day
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has scheduled another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, to be held on Saturday, April 27, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m…
DOT Reasonable Suspicion Testing: More than Meets the Eye
The idea of a Reasonable Suspicion test sounds simple – someone suspects an employee of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol and orders a test. In fact, there are quite a few rules that a company must follow to comply with DOT regulations for a Reasonable Suspicion test.
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