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Aquabio Guideline Document Drug and Alcohol Policy
i. With cause or post incident. Where there is a reasonable belief that an employee may be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, “with cause” testing may be used. In all instances, an Aquabio Director should be involved. Employees who receive a positive result will be referred to a Medical Adviser for further review. It should be noted that this will require two tests, the first will give a result at the time of testing, and the second will be sent to a laboratory for confirmation. As the second result cannot be produced immediately, the company may suspend an Employee or offer them alternative duties on the grounds of Health and Safety until such time that the test results have been confirmed. In any case, test results should be confirmed within 3 working days unless this is not reasonably practicable. The same process may be applied following an incident which is subject to a safety/disciplinary fact finding investigation.
ii. Customer requirement. It may be necessary to agree to the provision of testing as part of the tendering process involved in gaining a new contract. As such contracts will be necessary for the continued growth of the business, the customers testing clause will supersede any provision the company may have in their policy. Employees will therefore be required to submit themselves for testing (random or otherwise) should it be required under the terms of a customer contract. Failure to submit to testing in such circumstances will automatically be deemed a fail and dealt with in accordance with the company’s disciplinary procedure. The employee may not be able to continue working on the particular contract.
iii. Random. Employees, agency workers and contractors may be subject to random testing. Individuals will be randomly selected. Only a Director, or General Manager Projects, can authorise random tests to be carried out. Individuals would not be notified until their test was about to be carried out.
iv. Rehabilitation programme. In order to ensure that employees are committed to a rehabilitation programme as a result of disclosing a dependency or alternatively as a result of previous positive test results in accordance with i, ii and iii above, further testing and/or referrals to the company’s Medical Advisers will be carried out periodically, the timescales of which will be determined in accordance with an appropriate rehabilitation programme. The rehabilitation process must be carried out and completed within a reasonable timescale which will be determined through advice from the company’s Medical Advisers. This will of course also be dependent on individual circumstances. On completion of a rehabilitation programme, Employees will not be continually tested but may be required to present themselves for testing in accordance with i and ii above.
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