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Message:: [QUOTE="wis bang, post: 12234217, member: 56880"]Reasonable suspicion is different from mandated post accident which is only tied to 1- fatality and 2- injury requiring immediate treatment away from the scene -or- disabling damage requiring a vehicle to be towed AND a citation is issued with a BAC time limit of 8 hours and urinalysis sample within 32 hours to complete testing. A TRAINED supervisor with suspicion they can document can order a reasonable suspicion test. During my initial training [1991 when it started] Matlack Corporate demanded to CYA requiring two supervisors to document their suspicion but trained everyone dispatcher and up so there should always be two individuals on hand. In thirty years I have never seen one conducted. I did stop my boss who wanted, well after the fact, send a guy for a BAC after a customer reported that their security reported that he looked 'off' at 5 am....you cannot test on 'hearsay'... Corporate policy can toss in 'drug free workplace for every employee [100%] where anyone involved in an accident with company equipment -or- hurt on-site at the job WILL be drug tested. That is in the mix for company locations, etc. but DOT comes first, if applicable, and the drug free can be a non-DOT seven panel test for everything from paper cuts to 'Mayhem'.[/QUOTE]