Drugs & Alcohol Testing are essential for for various safety-critical workplace industries.
Our strategic health & safety partners provide drug and alcohol testing for critical business workplaces. Working to a strict chain of procedures thus ensuring both sample integrity and traceability from the point of collection to result reporting.
The 7 panel saliva drug test just requires the person being tested to put the test under their tongue for ~3 mins. Not only is this the easiest and most accurate drug test to use. It is also, as best we know, the only oral drug test that is specifically produced for the UK market and covers the 7 main street drugs found in the UK. The following substances can be detected with the 7 panel saliva drug test: COC/AMP/OPI/THC/BZO/MTD/MET/ALC
Below outlines the process of testing for those in the safety-critical industries.
1. Initial Consultation with D&A Testing Services
The workplace drugs and alcohol screening procedure begins with a free consultation with an experienced business specialist. During the consultation, they will discuss your testing requirements and put together a package tailored to meet the needs of your business.
2. Create a Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
As an employer wishing to implement drug and alcohol testing in the workplace you are required to have a substance abuse policy. Our professional policy review service is available to help you create or modify a new or existing workplace drug and alcohol testing policy.
Providing you with the correct tools and information, we ensure you have an effective policy in place to allow you the right, as an employer, to carry out employee testing. They also ensure the rights of the employee are protected by ensuring a policy which is clear and concise. During this process, they will discuss the types of workplace testing you wish to carry out to ensure your policy suits your business needs.
3. Implement Workplace Drugs & Alcohol Testing
They provide comprehensive training and education to help you to communicate the new policy to your employees and management staff. They also provide extra training services to educate your management team on the significance of drugs and alcohol misuse in the workplace.
4. Sample Collection
After gaining informed consent from employees, their network of trained and experienced sample collection officers collect samples at a time and location that suits. Alternatively, we offer training and education to allow your own staff to collect samples from employees.
Throughout sample collection, sample integrity is maintained following strict chain of procedure criteria. Unique identification numbers are assigned to employees to ensure employee names or department information is not known, the end report, will all relevant details, will be sent to the companies designated colleague.
5. Sample Analysis
All analysis is completed on site and the results report will be issued 24-48 Hours post test.
Upon analysis of employee samples, required actions will differ depending on the result:
Negative
i. Employee is cleared of having drugs or alcohol in their system
ii) Presumptive Positive (Non-Negative)
Indicates presence of a particular substance. Further analysis may be required.
iii) Confirmatory Testing
Carried out on presumptive positive samples to confirm drug testing outcome
Positive
If a positive result is received after confirmatory testing, a report will be written stating which drugs were present. To find out more, please click on the Get in Touch button above.
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Group Chief Executive
Sue has worked with me in helping me to formulate my people strategy. She clearly has extensive experience in HR across many different businesses which is invaluable for both start-up businesses who are considering employing people and also for established businesses who already have employees and are either planning for growth or are looking to generate efficiencies and increase their business performance. I have been impressed with how Sue considers the vision and goals of an organisation in the planning phase and provides sound advice in areas which I may never have considered. She has a very engaging and friendly style which puts you at ease very quickly and is clearly very passionate about helping businesses to progress. I would not hesitate to recommend Sue to any business but especially to IT companies as she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from this sector.
Outserve Ltd & Director of UK IT Association, UK
I would highly recommend Sue to any future employer. She has a dynamic and engaging style and actively seeks out opportunities to improve business performance. Sue has the ability and vision to define, design and implement HR solutions to meet business needs! In Sue's time in Rolls-Royce, she has led one of the key global workstreams to drive towards a high performing culture. This included working with the global leadership team in developing a global mindset. The results have been highly significant in enabling the business to move forward to both define and execute its strategy.
Rolls-Royce PLC UK
Sue built a strong reputation for getting things done in a very tough and challenging environment. She supported dynamic and driven client groups and provided support and direction in good and balanced measure. Naturally curious, she extended her reach and worked with me on the design and development of behavioural programmes for executives.
Virgin Media UK
Sue and I worked on a number of organisational development projects related to the design of events for senior leadership teams. She has extensive experience across blue chip organisations and has successfully utilised this experience in demonstrating good organisational insight. She has always analysed and identified the key issues well ahead of the teams realising their own needs and has used this to successfully influence teams in shaping organisational development activities. She is very competent at designing events and workshops to address complex organisational changes.
Rolls-Royce PLC UK
I worked alongside Sue Green at a time of turbulent change in our business and found her to be calm and confident in her approach to difficult and complex employee relationship issues. A competent and knowledgeable individual, technically aware of the latest legislation and employment trends, she was able to give guidance and direction to me in my role as Head of Operations. On a personal note, I always found Sue to be positive in her outlook, trustworthy and confidential. It wasn’t by choice that our working relationship ended, and I would welcome the opportunity to work with her again.
Virgin Media UK
Sue is an absolute diamond! Super supportive, super knowledgable and super quick to answer any questions, and a lovely person too! Highly recommended for all things HR
Director at Blink Digital UK Ltd
We used Sue for ad hoc HR support prior to bringing this in house. The quality and promptness of her advice has always been second to none and she was a valuable member of our team.
MD
When you're a small business owner, you want to make sure you're taking good care of your staff - and for us, making sure we are compliant with the latest employment legislation has always been a really important part of this. However, our expertise is not in HR... which is where Sue and Evergreen HR come in! We've worked with Sue for years and she's an essential part of our team now - providing practical guidance - as well as a listening ear - to make sure we provide a professional, caring workplace for all our staff. If like us, you need HR advice that works for your business - and will leave you free to be able to concentrate on the things you are an expert in - give Sue a call. I can't recommend her highly enough.
Jan
We hope that you have had a fantastic Christmas and we wish you a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year! Now is a very exciting time for businesses as it is usually a time where you are considering the direction that you’d like to take your business in, to plan ahead, to expand into existing markets
Feb
There are a few very important changes in employment law that you need to be aware of that will be happening in 2018! March and May 2018 – Changes to Fit for Work – On the 31st of March 2018, the assessments service provided under the Fit for Work service stopped accepting new referrals in December 2017 in England