Drug and drink driving and speeding are the major targets of Queensland Police, as they fight to arrest an alarming rise in road deaths despite fewer motorists on the roads due to COVID-19. According to an article in The Australian on Sunday, Queensland has recorded an almost 20 per cent increase in year-on-year road...
Category: Drug and alcohol testing
News and views on workplace drug and alcohol testing
Roadside drug and alcohol testing returns
There’s another sign that Australia has done an excellent job in reducing the spread of COVID-19: roadside drug and alcohol testing is returning to normal in some states and territories. Police in several Australian states stopped conducting their normal large-scale drug and alcohol testing in mid-March because it was felt the practice would provide...
COVID-19 and drug and alcohol testing concerns
I hope you; your colleagues, family and friends are all healthy and staying safe through these trying times. We have growing concerns, regarding the recent increase in suspension/cancellations of random, incident and causal drug and alcohol testing services, we normally provide, to many high-risk industries such as transport, distribution/warehousing, manufacturing and construction. We are...
Workplace drug and alcohol testing in Tasmania
Drug and alcohol testing as vital as ever Should you be concerned about drugs and alcohol in your Tasmanian workplace? While it might be easy to set aside questions like this in the face of COVID-19, it’s important to remember that at all times, as a business owner or manager, you have an obligation...
Drug and alcohol testing now even more imperative
If you’re a workplace manager or owner and your business is safety-focussed, there’s now even more reason to consider implementing drug testing and alcohol testing as part of your workplace health and safety program. That’s because new industrial manslaughter laws have recently passed in the Northern Territory. New, similar laws are also proposed in...
No holidays for drug and alcohol testing
Let’s face it, it’s that time of the year in the workplace. The time when there are Christmas parties (or end of season parties if your workplace is being overly politically correct!), everyone is feeling a little more jolly and outside the workplace there are more social gatherings to attend. That’s all well and...
Expect more drug and alcohol testing in Victoria in 2020
No matter what happens in the final three-and-a-bit weeks of the year, Victoria is heading for one of its worst road tolls in recent history and that means we’re set for even more drug testing and more alcohol testing on our roads in 2020. Lives lost in Victoria According to the Transport Accident Commission...
Drug and alcohol testing for Tasmanian pollies? We’ll vote for that!
If there’s one common comment from people who look at our blogs and Facebook posts, it’s that politicians should face drug and alcohol testing. Well then, here’s a story that should win the majority vote: Councillors in Tasmania’s capital also want elected representatives to be drug and alcohol tested! According to an article on...
Alcohol and drug testing making news
School bus driver fails alcohol testing What are the top job roles where people should never fail alcohol testing? We’d suggest that an airplane pilot would make the list, as would a train driver, truck driver, mobile crane operator and Police officers. And here’s another one to add to the list… A school bus...
Drug and alcohol testing in high focus in South Australia
For the past month South Australia police has put an increased emphasis on drug and alcohol testing, as part of its Operation High Impact F5 operation. Operation High Impact F5 got underway on 9 August and is due to finish today (5 September). The operation’s aim is to target people committing offences against the...