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Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace
The School District of Palm Beach County is committed to maintaining a drug and alcohol free workplace. School Board Policies 3.96 and 3.961 define the terms and parameters of this commitment. The Department of Employee Relations is the primary contact for implementing this policy.
On-Site Reasonable Suspicion Testing Step by Step
- A trained supervisor makes a reasonable suspicion determination and calls Employee Relations
- The supervisor completes a Reasonable Suspicion Documentation Form
(Don’t have one? – Employee Relations can email or fax one to your site). - The supervisor faxes the Reasonable Suspicion form to Employee Relations and contacts them to discuss the information contained on the form.
- If there is reasonable suspicion Employee Relations will contact the testing lab to send a lab technician to the site to test the employee. Both blood and urine will be collected as a part of the exam.
- While waiting for the technician the supervisor must not leave the employee alone, the employee should not be allowed to eat or drink anything (other than a small quantity of water) or use the rest room.
- Employee Relations will prepare the Assignment to Your Residence with Pay letter and fax it to the site.
- After the exam, the supervisor will give the Assignment to Your Residence with Pay letter to the employee who will sign and date it for receipt. The supervisor will then fax the signed letter back to Employee Relations
- Upon completion of the testing the employee will be sent home. The employee should not be allowed to drive themselves home. Other transportation arrangements should be made.
- The employee will be reassigned home with pay until the results of the drug test have been submitted to Employee Relations by the Medical Review Officer.