Concept of random drug testing

Random drug testing refers to unpublicized plan to test every employee having identical possibility of being chosen for drug testing.

This is further developed in the Depart of Labor and Employment sample Drug-Free Workplace Policy and Program. It presents in the documentation that officers or employees may be casually chosen for drug testing at any intervening time having made a firm decision by the company.

However, this does not restrict the privilege of the management to make drug testing compulsory to the employees. The company may ask the officers or their employees to present an individual drug test any time when the company detects that the employee may be under the influence of drugs, including, but not limited to, the following situations: “evidence of drugs on or about the employee’s person or in the employee’s vicinity, unusual conduct on the employee’s part that suggests impairment or influence of drugs, negative performance patterns, or excessive and unexplained absenteeism or tardiness.”

In addition, the management may need a drug test over their officer or employee connected in a near-miss incident or work accident “under circumstances that suggest possible use or influence of drugs.”

J. Del Puerto