Drug Testing Policies and the New OSHA Rules?
2016 brought about new post-accident drug testing regulations by the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). One of the goals of the rule is to promote, "accurate recording of work-related injuries and illnesses by preventing the under-recording that arises when workers are discouraged from reporting these occurrences." The intent is not to ban post-accident testing, but to strike a balance that uses policies to "limit post-incident testing to situations in which employee drug use is likely to have contributed to the incident, and for which the drug test can accurately identify impairment caused by drug use."
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