Queensland Police has revealed a new strategy targeting drugs operations and roadside drug testing in the Mackay area. As revealed in the Courier Mail, police will use a two-pronged strategy, called Operation Hotshot, in a relentless crackdown on illicit drug operations and impaired driving, including: Operation Hotshot, which will focus on selected suburbs and towns...
Category: Drug testing
News and views on workplace drug testing
The sharp end of drug use in the workplace
If one of your employees was an amphetamines user, and was coming to work under the influence, what would be the potential threat to your business or to you? If you answered that the worker’s productivity would be down, they would be regularly late to work or didn’t turn up at all, or that they...
Drug testing on the rise in Queensland
Last week we published a blog about roadside drug testing in Queensland and one of the messages was that if you take drugs and drive, one day the police will catch you. Well, after a recent announcement, it appears your chances of getting away with drug driving are even slimmer in Qld. The announcement was...
Geraldton drug testing hits the skids
According to an article in The West Australian, a Geraldton man has had his bail revoked after allegedly trying to cheat on urine drug testing. While there is little detail in the article, it’s important to note that the incident doesn’t involve roadside drug testing in Geraldton. As with the rest of Western Australia and...
Drug testing in Queensland not the worst consequence
You would think with all the warnings about roadside drug testing in Queensland, not to mention the safety consequences of drug driving, that we’d see the rates of people getting caught go down. But it seems it’s taking a while for the messages to get through. Queensland’s Courier Mail regularly has articles highlighting the shame-file....
SA parents fail drug testing while dropping kids off at school
If you set up roadside drug testing at school drop off, how many drivers do you think you’d catch with drugs in their system? Somewhere between one in 50 or 100? Well, if targeted operations in SA is anything to go by, the number could be much worse than that. How much worse? Try one...
Drugs are everywhere man (including NT, NSW and Qld)
If there is one thing that readers of our blogs will understand, it’s that drugs are everywhere and there are plenty of people willing to take drugs and then take risks. And here are some more examples: According to a report by the ABC, a father with a child in his car is among a...
Drug testing in regional NSW and Queensland highlights issues
Roadside drug testing in regional NSW and Queensland has highlighted the extent of the issue of drugs on our roads (and by association, in our workplaces). According to an article in The Young Witness, five drivers were detected with illegal drugs in their system during a three-day police blitz across the regional NSW areas of...
Victoria makes drug testing headlines
There’s been a new push to legalise cannabis in Victoria, so what would this mean for roadside and workplace drug testing in the state if it did go ahead? According to an article on the KIIS FM website, there are renewed calls to legalise the sale and use of cannabis in Victoria for personal use....
ICE enemy number one on Victorian roads
An article in the Herald Sun has highlighted the danger of the drug ICE on Victoria’s roads and the government’s increase in roadside drug testing, in part to prevent further carnage. According to the article, while alcohol use is higher at night and on weekends, it is ICE that is causing carnage on the state’s...