Your workplace takes safety seriously, so you conduct drug testing regularly to ensure your employees are safe to do their jobs. That’s great, as conducting drug testing, including alcohol testing, is an excellent component of any good workplace safety program. But, just how random is your random drug testing? To be truly random, your drug...
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Random drug testing
Can you refuse random drug testing at work?
After a big weekend with mates, where you consumed a few beers and took ICE, you rock up to work on Monday morning feeling a little under the weather and tired. If you were honest with yourself, you’re probably still under the influence, having took your last hit only 10 hours ago. But you quickly...
Random drug testing makes budget headlines
One of the more newsworthy (and controversial) announcements in the recent 2017 Budget is a plan to trial random drug testing for Newstart and Youth Allowances recipients in targeted areas. The 2-year trial will see 5000 new recipients of the welfare streams having to undergo random drug testing for illegal drugs, as a condition of...
Random drug testing on our roads saving lives
It’s controversial in some circles and may be a political can of worms, but random drug testing – whether it is on our roads or in our workplaces – saves lives. Random drug testing on Wagga roads According to The Daily Advertiser, police in Wagga have reduced and perhaps even stopped mobile random drug testing...
Policing the police – random drug testing in Tasmania
We’re all aware of the random drug testing that takes place on our roads in Tasmania, but is there anyone policing the police? Well in Tasmania – and it should be said in most other parts of Australia – we can categorically say that the police are policed when it comes to drugs. Under the...
Workplace drug testing in Melbourne not just random
When people think of drug testing they automatically consider random drug testing, because that’s what the majority of us are exposed to on our roads. But if you own or manage a Melbourne business, it shouldn’t just be random drug testing that you implement. Other types of drug testing are important as part of an...