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M-1 • If Health, Safety and Risk are contacted to locate an employee due to their non - responsiveness to the MRO, the branch will be notified and the affected employee will be contacted and required to report immediately after their current shift or prior to their next. The employee will not be allowed return -to -duty until the MRO has been contacted and their test has been verified. • The MRO is empowered to order a re- analysis of a test sample or a retest in cases where there is a reasonable doubt concerning the test result's validity and to determine if any abuse exists. • When test results indicate a confirmed positive for one of the following drugs; cocaine, opiates, marijuana or hashish, etc., company policy requires the employee be immediately terminated. The employee should sign the Post Tests Notice (Form PTN -1), and be informed of or provided information regarding SAP's in the area. (Utilize the phone book or requesting information from the MRO). The employee must make contact and secure services themselves. • Upon request from any non -DOT employee, a re -test of a remaining positive sample can be completed at the current lab or sent to an alternative site, at the cost of the employee. Breathe Analysis Sample for Alcohol Testin Testing will be done in an area affording visual and aural privacy. The Breath Alcohol Technician (B.A.T.) must be trained and certified in using the alcohol evidential breathe testing device (E.B.T.) and will explain the testing process to the employee. Screening test procedures will include: • The B.A.T. must supervise only one test at a time. • An individually sealed mouthpiece will be opened in the presence of the employee. • The BAT will show the employee the results displayed on the E.B.T. = According to Department of Transportation regulations, E.B.T. screening samples with results greater than .02 require a confirmation test be performed. If the confirmation test shows a level of .02, but below .04, DOT standards require the employee to be released from work that day, without pay, and they may not return for a minimum of twenty -four hours or the next assigned work shift, whichever is `~ greater. The employee will be afforded and offered transportation home in any confirmed positive testing situation. The employee must be retested in order to return and have a BAC level below _02. Waste Industries policy regarding detectible levels of alcohol varies in two ways from the federal standard. (1) If the employee has been released from duty due to a confirmed positive test of .02 or below, any properly administered return -to -duty test or subsequent random test, resulting in a confirmed positive test, at any detectable level, will result in the immediate termination of employment. (2) Any confirmed positive test greater than .02 will be grounds for the termination of employment, on the first offense. (Federal standards are at .04) ■ The B.A.T. signs and dates the printed test results form. The test results' form is sent to Health, Safety and Risk where the test form is placed in a secured file. A copy is given to the employee upon completion of testing. ■ Failure on the part of an employee to voluntarily supply a proper breath sample (shy breath) will require the B.A.T. to immediately suspend testing and notify the employees' supervisor. If the employee alleges physical incapacity to comply with breath testing, a physician will verify their incapacity or determine the level of sobriety within two (2) hours. Alcohol Confirm_ ation Testing Procedure Instruct the employee not to eat, drink or place any substance in their mouth and to the extent possible, not to belch or vomit. ■ The confirmation test will be conducted in the same standard as the screening test in not less than fifteen minutes, but within twenty minutes of the screening test. A new mouthpiece will be used. ■ Confirmation test results will be the final results used in determining any disciplinary actions or compliance issues. 3.3V h