Better Drug Testing Methods Needed?
The ability for airilines to conduct observed specimen collections for drug testing has been present for years. How can the airlines ask for more time to administer drug tests, when in fact they should have been prepared for observed urine collections for the past decade or longer?
While recent “new regs” do call for more required observed specimen collections, the ONLY way to assure a valid test is an observed collection. How can the airlines… or anyone not know this? Drug abusers can, and do, regularly cheat urine based tests by adding substances or substituting drug free urine.
Airlines and the DOT / FAA, et al … need to adopt newer, more suitable drug testing practices and technologies, including oral fluid based testing.
Do you really think that the airlines are going to comply with observed urine collections? They, like the trucking industry, have complied with federal regs for over a decade…. Why will they start now?
Airlines ask for time to comply with drug-testing rule
Source: ATA SmartBrief | 08/20/2008
The Air Transport Association and Regional Airline Association have petitioned the Department of Transportation to delay a rule requiring observers during urine collections for drug tests. The associations said more time is needed to hire and train test monitors who are the same gender as those being tested. Currently, it’s mostly women who collect the samples, while it’s mostly men submitting them.
Better Drug Testing Methods Needed?
The ability for airilines to conduct observed specimen collections for drug testing has been present for years. How can the airlines ask for more time to administer drug tests, when in fact they should have been prepared for observed urine collections for the past decade or longer?
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