| NRLA's
Drug Free Workplace Program
(for all employees other than CDL drivers)
NRLA can keep your company compliant!
Our program provides:
• A pre-approved policy that your company can adopt for its
own.
• Approved testing facilities through Quest Diagnostics, Inc.,
www.questdiagnostics.com.
• Pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable cause
testing are all available.
• Recordkeeping assistance.
• Notification of important law changes to help keep your
company compliant.
• Substance abuse training materials for both employees and
supervisors.
For more information on NRLA's Drug Testing program, please contact
the NRLA at 800.292.6752 or send an e-mail to jrush@nrla.org.
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Under NRLA's program,
the procedures are as follows:
FACTS
WHAT YOU
DO
• Enroll online or you may download an enrollment
form to complete and mail into the NRLA. Adobe
Acrobat Reader is needed to print out the PDF file containing
a enrollment form. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, click the
link above for a free download.
• Send your enrolled employee(s) to a Quest Diagnostics or
a third party collection site for testing. Contact NRLA for locations
if you have immediate requirements.
• Keep a confidential record of when and where the employee
was tested, and the result of the test (positive or negative).
• Keep a record of training for supervisors and employees.
• This program is for all employees, both regular full-time
and regular part-time.
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WHAT WE
DO
• Provide an easy, inexpensive way to meet the requirements
for training your employees and supervisors.
• Contract with Quest Diagnostics to provide access to urine
drug testing. Quest Diagnostics will test for the five drugs specified
by federal regulations. They are marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines,
opiates and PCP. If the test is negative, the results will be immediately
sent to the Medical Review Officer (MRO). If the result is positive,
a more extensive confirmatory test will be conducted. If the confirming
test is positive, the results will then be forwarded to the MRO.
In most cases, this will take between 48 and 72 hours from the time
the sample is collected.
• Notify you of the nearest collection site available. If
a Quest collection site is not convenient, we will help you find
a doctor, clinic, or hospital that is convenient to you and will
serve as a third party collection site. You may use your own company
doctor or clinic as a third party collection site. Third party collection
sites may charge an additional $10 to $30.
• Contract with a National Medical Review Officer (MRO) to
analyze all test results.
• The MRO will assess and review all test results and documentation.
The MRO will notify the employer of a negative test result. If the
test result is positive, the MRO will first contact the employee
to determine if there is a legitimate reason for a positive result
(i.e. prescription drugs). If there is not a legitimate reason for
a positive test result, the MRO will notify the employer of such
results. The employer must then take the employee off any safety-sensitive
position, as the employee is medically unqualified to perform these
duties.
• Send a sample drug and alcohol testing policy with guidelines
on how to develop your own policy to your company.
• Keep all federally required annual summary records for a
period of five years.
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PRICE
The annual fee per employee covers
all random tests conducted during the year. The price structure
is outlined below:
• Employees enrolled in random testing program - $47 each
(annual fee per employee)
• (15+ employees enrolled) - $37 each
• If you join during 2nd, third or fourth quarter, the rates are as follows
First quarter – January – March
1-14 drivers - $47.00 15+ drivers - $37.00
Second quarter – April – June
1-14 drivers - $35.25 15+ drivers - $27.75
Third quarter – July – September
1-14 drivers - $23.50 15+ drivers - $18.50
Fourth quarter - October – December
1-14 drivers - $11.75 15+ drivers - $9.25
• Pre-employment, probable cause using quest patient service
center - $65 (If you use a third party collection site charge, you
will be charged the $65 plus an extra cost of $20 to $30)
• One-time administrative fee for entire program - $25
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HOW TO
ENROLL
To enroll in NRLA's NEW Drug Free Workplace Program, please complete
the enrollment form
and mail to: Carol Paradise, Northeastern Retail Lumber Association,
585 North Greenbush Road, Rensselaer, NY 12144.
Please enclose the proper payment. Proper payment should include
the $47 fee per employee enrolled in the Drug Free Workplace Program.
Subsequent billing for the Drug Free Workplace Program will be conducted
on an annual basis and after any pre-employment, probable cause,
or enrollment of a new employee into the program. Questions should
be referred to: Jim Rush, Northeastern Retail Lumber Association,
585 North Greenbush Road, Rensselaer, NY 12144. Tel: 800.292.6752
Ext. 364, or you can send an e-mail to jrush@nrla.org.
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