Where do we conduct drug testing in Queensland? Most of us probably know we test on our roads, in workplaces and on our waters but you probably didn’t know we also drug test the water that comes out of your toilet! It’s all part of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, which has been...
Category: Drug testing
News and views on workplace drug testing
Drug testing’s worst of the worst
We’ve all heard of the best of the best, but what about the worst of the worst? Here are some of the latest contenders for the title of drug testing’s worst of the worst on our roads. Five fail drug testing across Lower Eyre First contenders are five people who failed drug testing during...
Drug testing in NSW highlights deadly contamination
If you take illegal drugs in NSW, failing drug testing at work or on the roads might be the least of your worries. This follows warnings by NSW Health that fentanyl-related substances are being mixed with other drugs and users don’t have a clue. According to a NSW Health release, drug testing has found...
Can you accidently fail drug testing?
In a blog last week we examined the ways in which you can potentially fail alcohol testing without drinking alcohol in Can a keto diet upset alcohol testing? In this week’s blog we’re taking a slight twist and looking at whether there are ways you can fail drug testing in the workplace or on...
How to detect opioids? Drug testing the only way
Astonishingly, more than three people a day are dying in Australia due to opioid use and many more are addicted to the drug. So how can you protect your workplace by identifying if any of your employees may have opioids in their system and therefore may be unsafe to be at work? Drug testing...
Drugs testing in the news
Drug testing has made the news in recent days and weeks, with the drug ICE and its aggressive symptoms, a new drug testing van in WA that’s targeting methamphetamines and the RACV’s somewhat dire warning on the impact of drugs on the road toll. Methamphetamines fuelling violence against hospital staff A study has highlighted...
Drug testing on the rails in New South Wales
Can you sack a worker who fails drug testing in your New South Wales’ workplace, particularly if you have a zero tolerance on drugs? It’s an interesting question, particularly after a case before the Fair Work Commission last week. In the case in New South Wales, a Sydney Trains customer service attendant won reinstatement...
Random drug testing in Victoria – a pain or a lifesaver?
You’re heading down the coast for a long-weekend away in Victoria’s January sunshine when you notice a big line up of traffic ahead of you. “What’s going on,” you think, “I just want to get to the holiday house and relax with my mates,” then you notice the traffic is due to a random...
ABC THC of drug testing in Victoria
Forget the ABCs of drug testing in Victoria, this is more about the THCs. Because when workplace drug testing or roadside drug testing is carried out in Victoria, the drug that is perhaps most likely to be detected is cannabis, or more correctly the psychoactive cannabinoid THC (or delta9 tetrahydrocannabinol if you wish). While...
Policing the police for drug and alcohol testing in Tasmania
Next time you’re stopped by the police in Tasmania to undergo drug or alcohol testing, you might wonder whether there is anyone policing the police. In other words, do Tasmania police officers also have to undergo drug and alcohol testing? The simple answer is that the police in Tasmania – and indeed in most...