District Medical Review Officer. Each Medical Review Officer (MRO) must be a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy with knowledge of substance abuse disorders. The MRO is responsible for performing the following functions: 1. Reviewing the results of the City’s drug testing program. 2. Receiving all positive and negative drug test reports as the DOT regulations, and making all reports of prescribed under drug test results to the Employer. 3. Within a reasonable time, notifying an employee of a confirmed positive test result. 4. Reviewing and interpreting each confirmed positive test result in order to determine if there is an alternative medical explanation for the specimen's testing positive. The MRO shall perform the following functions as part of the review of a confirmed positive test result. 5. Provide an opportunity for the employee to discuss a positive result. 6. Review the employee's medical history and relevant biomedical factors. A driver is allowed to use a controlled substance (except for methadone) only when taken as prescribed by a licensed medical practitioner who is familiar with the driver's medical history and assigned duties. 7. Review all medical records made available by the employee to determine if a confirmed positive test resulted from legally prescribed medication or other possible explanation. 8. Verify that the laboratory report and assessment are correct. The MRO shall be authorized to request that the original specimen be reanalyzed to determine the accuracy of the reported test result. 9. Processing an employee's request to test the split sample. Such testing will be conducted at the employee's expense. The employee shall be reimbursed by the City for any such expense should the retest provide a negative result. If a reanalysis is negative, then the MRO will declare the test canceled. 10. Review and determine with the after-care treatment professionals whether and when a return to work agreement can be made for an employee. The MRO shall also review any rehabilitation program in which the employee participated. 11. Reviewing with after-care treatment professionals the schedule of unannounced testing for an employee who has returned to duty after failing a drug test conducted in accordance with the return to work agreement, or after refusing to submit to a drug test required by the return-to-work agreement.
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District Medical Review Officer. Each Any person serving as a Medical Review Officer (MRO) for the Company must be a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy with knowledge of substance abuse disorders, issues relating to adulterated and substituted specimens, possible medical causes of specimens having an invalid result, and a applicable DOT agency regulations. In addition the MRO shall keep current on applicable DOT agency regulations and comply with the DOT qualification training and continuing education requirements. The MRO is responsible for performing the following functions, in addition to those specified in the DOT regulations:
1. Reviewing the results of the City’s UPS's drug testing program.
2. Receiving all positive and negative drug test reports as prescribed under the DOT regulations, and making all reports of prescribed under drug test results to the Employer.
3. Within a reasonable time, notifying an employee of a confirmed positive test result.
4. Reviewing and interpreting each confirmed positive test result in order to determine if there is an alternative medical explanation for the specimen's testing positive. The MRO shall perform the following functions as part of the review of a confirmed positive test result.result :
5. a. Provide an opportunity for the employee to discuss a positive test result.
6. b. Review the employee's medical history and relevant biomedical factors. A driver is allowed to use a controlled substance (except for methadone) } only when taken as prescribed by a licensed medical practitioner who is familiar with the driver's medical history and assigned duties.
7. c. Review all medical records made available by the employee to determine if a confirmed positive test resulted from legally prescribed medication or other possible explanation.
8. d. Verify that the laboratory report and assessment are correct. The MRO shall be authorized to request that the original specimen be reanalyzed to determine the accuracy of the reported test result.
95. Processing an employee's request to test the split sample. Such testing will be conducted at the employee's expense. The employee shall be reimbursed by the City UPS for any such expense should the retest provide a negative result. If a reanalysis is negative, then the MRO will declare the test canceled.
10. Review and determine with the after-care treatment professionals whether and when a return to work agreement can be made for an employee. The MRO shall also review any rehabilitation program in which the employee participated.
11. Reviewing with after-care treatment professionals the schedule of unannounced testing for an employee who has returned to duty after failing a drug test conducted in accordance with the return to work agreement, or after refusing to submit to a drug test required by the return-to-work agreement.
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