EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Employees will be required to take drug tests as a condition of continued employment in order to ascertain prohibited drug use as provided below:
1. The Public Safety Director/Designee may order an Employee to take a drug test upon documented probable cause that the Employee is or has been using drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available to the Employee prior to the actual test.
2. Members of the POLC (Command, Detective, Police Officers & Dispatchers) shall be uniformly tested during any random testing required by the department. All POLC members will be randomly tested in the first year of the program and will be randomly selected thereafter.
a. The Public Safety Director/Designee and a representative from the POLC shall determine the frequency and timing of such tests.
b. The Employees chosen for random testing will be by a lottery system mutually agreed upon by the Public Safety Director/Designee and the POLC. The Union presidents of each bargaining unit or his/her designee shall be present at the time of the random drawing.
c. The presidents of each bargaining unit of the POLC or his/her designee will receive a list of the Employees that have been required to take a drug test after all Employees in that particular group have submitted or have refused to submit a urine sample to the laboratory testing personnel.
d. A drug screening test shall be considered as a condition of acceptance to the narcotics unit.
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. I Florida Statutes for Drug-Free Workplace Act, Section 112.0455 authorizes only the following types of testing:
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. See Newark City Drug and Alcohol Policy
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Sworn officers will be required to take drug tests as a condition of continued employment in order to ascertain prohibited drug use as provided below:
(a) All sworn officers shall be required to submit to a drug test prior to January 1, 1991. Officers receiving inpatient treatment for a dependency problem at the time of the mass testing shall not be tested.
(b) A supervisor may order an employee to take a drug test upon documented reasonable suspicion that the employee is or has been using drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available to the employee prior to the actual test.
(c) A drug test will be administered as part of all promotional procedures.
(d) Members of the following units, as a condition of their assignment to the unit, shall be subject to random drug testing no more than 2-times in a calendar year:
1. Emergency Response Unit.
2. Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Unit.
3. Officers assigned drug investigations on a regular basis. Any member, who refuses to submit to this form of testing for judgment, fitness, and readiness for duty, shall be immediately removed from their special assignments.
(e) Any sworn officer of this department who is directly involved in a serious police incident shall be required by his/her supervisor to participate in a drug screening test immediately following the event, or as soon as the tactical situation allows. A serious incident is defined as:
1. Discharge of a firearm at a human being or a vehicle in which human beings are contained.
2. Police vehicle auto accident in which serious injury is sustained by any involved officer or citizen requiring immediate medical attention by hospital personnel. If it is clearly evident that the officer is not at fault in the accident, no drug test will be required. A directly involved officer is one who actually discharges the weapon in case #1 or is the driver of the police vehicle in case #2.
(f) Any officer, who, in the carrying on of his/her police duties, ingests, either directly or indirectly, any drug or narcotic substance, is required to document, as soon as possible thereafter, such contact. Documentation should occur in writing explaining all circumstances, and the employee’s supervisor should be notified as soon as possible. Drug tests will be administered and no disciplinary action will be taken if the tests are positive under the following conditions.
1. The officer was in physical danger if he/she did not ingest the drug or narcotic substan...
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Sworn employees will be required to take drug tests as
1069 a) All sworn employees shall be required to submit to a drug test prior to 1070 January 1, 1993, provided they are notified of such test at least 30 days in 1071 advance. Employees receiving inpatient treatment for a dependency problem 1072 at the time of the mass testing shall not be tested.
1073 b) A non-union supervisor may order an employee to take a drug test upon 1074 documented reasonable suspicion that the employee is or has been using 1075 drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available 1076 to the employee prior to the actual test.
1077 c) A drug test will be administered as part of all promotional procedures. Any 1078 member who refuses to submit to this form of testing for judgment, fitness, 1079 and readiness for duty, shall be immediately removed from their special 1080 assignments.
1081 d) Any sworn employee of this department who is directly involved in a serious 1082 fire incident shall be required by a non-union supervisor to participate in a 1083 drug screening test immediately following the event, or as soon as the 1084 tactical situation allows. A serious incident is defined as a fire vehicle 1085 accident in which serious injury is sustained by any involved employee or 1086 citizen requiring immediate medical attention by hospital personnel. If it is 1087 clearly evident that the employee is not at fault in the accident, no drug test 1088 will be required. A directly involved employee is one who is the driver of the 1089 fire vehicle.
1090 e) Any employee who in the carrying on of their duties, ingests, either directly 1091 or indirectly, any drug or narcotic substance, is required to document, as 1092 soon as possible thereafter such contact. Documentation should occur in 1093 writing explaining all circumstances, and the employee’s supervisor should 1094 be notified as soon as possible. Drug tests will be administered and no 1095 disciplinary action will be taken if the tests are positive and the employee can 1096 prove that ingestion was involuntary. 1097 f) Beginning in 1993, the department shall randomly test members of the 1098 bargaining unit. Such test shall occur once per year per shift with no 1099 announcement of time or date. The method for random selection shall be 1100 such that each member of the bargaining unit has an equal chance of being 1101 selected. No one shall be tested randomly more than twice every 5 years. 1102 Every employ...
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. The parties agree that the critical mission of law enforcement justifies maintenance of a drug free work environment through the use of a reasonable drug testing/screening program. Therefore, in order to ensure the integrity of the Connecticut State Police and to preserve public trust and confidence in a fit and drug-free law enforcement profession, the State and the Union agree to implement a drug testing/screening program.
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Employees employed in the Sheriff’s Office various departments will be required to take drug tests as a condition of continued employment in order to ascertain prohibited drug use, as provided below:
3.2.1 The Sheriff may order an employee to take a drug test upon documented reasonable suspicion that the employee is or has been using drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available to the employee prior to the actual test.
3.2.2 The Sheriff may order a drug test administered as part of any regular physical examination required by the Sheriff’s Department.
3.2.3 Employees shall be uniformly tested during any unannounced, mass/mandatory random drug testing required by the Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff shall determine the frequency, departments, shifts and timing of such tests.
3.2.4 A drug test shall be considered as a condition of application to the specialized units within the Sheriff’s Office, and may be administered as part of the required physical examination for that position or randomly performed while assigned to such specialized unit.
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Section 45.1 Purpose The purpose of this policy is to provide all employees of the Newark Fire Department with the notice of the provisions of the Department drug testing program.
Section 45.2 Policy It is the policy of the Newark Fire Department that the critical mission of emergency services justifies maintenance of a drug-free work environment through the use of a reasonable employee drug testing program. The uniquely compelling interest of the emergency services profession justifies the use of employee drug testing. Officer integrity and public trust are essential components of a successful emergency services department. Therefore, in order to maintain public trust, it is the policy of the Newark Fire Department to implement a drug testing program for all employees in safety-sensitive positions.
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. Section 1. The City and the Union agree that the City of Galveston Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Testing Program (herein after referred to as “City Drug Program”), shall apply to all bargaining unit employees.
EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING. A supervisor may order an employee to take a drug test upon documented probable cause that the employee is or has been using drugs. A summary of the facts supporting the order shall be made available to the employee prior to the actual test. A disagreement over the existence of probable cause shall not be grounds to refuse the test.
