Most of us are so used to driving a car that we forget that it’s an activity that requires a lot of skill, judgement and concentration. Negatively influencing your ability to drive a car can be disastrous, which is why drug testing is carried out on roads in NSW and across Australia. If you’ve never...
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News and views on workplace drug testing
Drug testing in Victoria aims to save lives
What is drug testing in Victoria – at work and on the road – trying to achieve? If you listen to some people, roadside drug testing is merely a revenue raising tool and would question the validity of testing. The same people are likely to say that drug testing in workplaces is an invasion of...
What’s your policy on drug testing in your workplace?
In this COVID-age, there is a lot of news and questions floating around about what workplaces can and can’t do, particularly around whether an employer can make it mandatory to get a vaccine. Well here’s another question that needs answering – although it doesn’t have anything to do with COVID. Can an employer force employees...
Roadside drug testing’s tough stance in South Australia
Roadside drug testing could get even tougher on motorists in South Australia under proposed rule changes. But for some the proposal goes too far. As revealed on adelaidenow.com.au, the proposal would see drivers who fail roadside drug testing in SA immediately lose their licences. Currently, if you fail a drug test in the state you...
Highlighting the NSW drug testing fake news
Here is a dramatised conversation of a real story involving roadside drug testing in NSW. A story that gets played out every day on our roads across Australia. “Sir, this preliminary drug testing shows that you are positive to an illicit drug,” say the NSW Police Officer to the driver. “A further sample will be...
Increased roadside drug testing in Victoria could help to save lives
Here’s news that will have some people rejoicing and others, including the people who think roadside drug testing Victoria is just revenue raising, even hotter under the collar. According to a recent article on 3aw.com.au, a road accident research centre has called for roadside drug testing in regional Victoria to be doubled. In addition (and...
We’re positive! Amazon workplace drug testing changes
In last week’s post we highlighted the dangers of cannabis in workplaces and on the roads, which may make a decision by one of the world’s leading brands seem a strange move. Retail giant Amazon has revised its workplace drug testing policy on cannabis. The revisions mean that people who have been previously sacked for...
ICE a Queensland ‘Wide’ issue
An article in Queensland’s Courier Mail has highlighted that the drug ICE is an epidemic in a regional Queensland community and that it’s the main drug detected in drug testing. The story focuses on the Wide Bay region of Queensland and quotes Detective Inspector Gary Pettiford, who said that methylamphetamine (ICE) and marijuana were the...
Roadside drug testing stats highlight fatal issue in Victoria
A Herald Sun article calls it the “Shocking truth behind road trauma statistics”, with roadside drug testing in Victoria and, more shockingly, road trauma investigations, laying out the awful truth about illegal drugs on our roads. The article, which was publishing on the weekend and is available on the Herald Sun website for those with...
Melbourne drug testing fail with a difference
Can you be caught for drug testing in Melbourne while riding a scooter? As highlighted by an article in a recent Whitehorse Leader, yes you can and while the incident may sound somewhat funny it does have a serious message. The incident involved a Nunawading man who was noticed by Victoria Police while patrolling along...