What is saliva drug testing and why is it touted as the best and fairest way to test for drugs on roadsides and in workplaces? Medical News Today recently published an article on saliva drug testing, or the mouth swab test, as it is referred to in the article. As the article’s intro says,...
Category: Drug testing
News and views on workplace drug testing
Roadside drug testing results in Geelong a concern
According to an article in the Geelong Advertiser, it’s possible drug-drivers caught travelling in the Geelong region could outnumber drink-drivers for the third consecutive year. In fact, the number of people failing drug testing looks like being a record for 2020, with 37 per cent more drug-affected drivers detected in Geelong in the first...
Drug testing far from a waste(water)
Imagine if you were given the job of studying the nation’s wastewater? No thanks, we can hear you say, although we think it’s fair to say that the people from the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program don’t need get their hands too dirty to conduct drug testing on the water. The National Wastewater Drug...
What are employers’ responsibilities for drug testing?
One of the questions we get asked regularly here at Integrity Sampling is “What are employers’ responsibilities when it comes to workplace drug testing?”, which is a subject that the Human Resources Director (HRD) has tacked in a recent online article. The article starts by looking at the effort many employers in Australia are...
New drug testing measures welcomed
A Victorian Parliament Member has welcomed new drug driving measures in a letter to the editor of the Seymour Telegraph. In the letter, Member for Northern Victoria Tania Maxwell writes that she hopes the news that police will issue on-the-spot fines and immediate driving bans for people caught driving with drugs in their system...
Drug testing will catch up with you in regional Victoria
Police have a very clear message to motorists in regional Victoria who think they can take drugs and then drive: they will catch up with you! The warning comes with an announcement that a drug driving enforcement trial in regional Victoria is here to stay. The trial, which will now become business as usual,...
Drug testing highlights a NSW problem
It should come as no surprise to regular readers of our blogs to know that drugs are becoming a bigger issue on our roads than alcohol. And this is certainly the case in NSW, where drug testing figures highlights the issue that drugs are causing on our roads. In a recent article on the...
Drug test positives drop
A drop in positive drug tests would normally be a cause for optimism, but in this case the news has been tempered due to COVID-19. According to an article on nine.com.au, positive drug tests in Victorian prisons has dropped since visits were banned due to the Coronavirus pandemic on March 21. In fact, the...
Medicinal cannabis and potential impacts on drug testing
Medicinal cannabis has been in the news again recently, with reports that the national medicines regulator is considering a new proposal on the drug’s use. What is the proposal, why has it got some people up in arms and what impact could the proposal have on drug testing if it’s passed? In a nutshell,...
Ballarat police tacking increased drug driving
An article in The Courier highlights the issues facing Ballarat police in combating drug driving, which is described as an increasing problem. In the article, Highway Patrol Senior Sergeant Stuart Gale is quoted as saying drug driving is one of the regions top three issues and is regularly involved in injury and fatality road...