If the star of your favourite sporting team got into trouble with the law, would you stand by him or ship him off to another team at the first opportunity? Would it make a difference if it wasn’t one of your stars, and it was a player who generally didn’t play in the senior...
Category: Drug testing
News and views on workplace drug testing
You can refuse drug testing but should you?
As we’ve highlighted before in our blogs, you can absolutely refuse drug testing on our roads and in our workplaces, but that doesn’t mean you should. This comes on the back of an article in the Shepparton News about a man who refused drug testing after being stopped by the Seymour Highway Patrol. He...
Caught in the ACT – drug testing catches out police
Some people complain that police and politicians should also face drug testing and in many cases they do! Here’s an example from the ACT published on the-riotact.com. The article explains that three ACT Police members have resigned while being investigated by Professional Standards after failing drug testing for cocaine, MDMA, ketamine and illegal steroids....
Saliva drug testing “more effective in determining current use”
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,...
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...