Workplace Drug Testing - Has Your Work Stopped?

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Prior to Covid we tested randomly every 3 months. Since 2020 we’ve done 0 random drug testing. We do new employees and any incidents/accidents but no randoms. Its mainly due to finding new (good) employees, hard to find so we don’t want to cause staff shortages via testing.

Curious what other companies are doing.

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I have never been randomly drug screened at work. In 2021, when I was hired by my current employer, I didn't even have to take a piss test as part of the background check.

Never had to, smoking a doobie rfn, too.

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I have never been randomly drug screened at work. In 2021, when I was hired by my current employer, I didn't even have to take a piss test as part of the background check.

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you're not a risk to national security risk manning the shake machine, baw, it doesn't even work

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Alcohol probably isn't against your company policy. Weed certainly is.

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I get it. But one isn't any more debilitating than the other a day or so later. Should that change?

We still do random testing but only for staff that is going to be working on certain client projects in the field. Say we have four, 3 man crews going to work on a Kinder Morgan right-of-way...usually one of those 12 people will get tested. But the do the same for Enterprise and there is no testing at all.

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ETA: You get high on a Friday night, you are fine Saturday, get pulled on Wednesday and fail. If you had gotten drunk, your job wouldn't be in question. But this causes your termination.

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The drug testing that my son goes through to work in the plants is pretty ridiculous. They’ll do a hair follicle test that goes back six months to detect weed, but if you did coke, crack, or meth a week before the test, you’re good to go.

Still doing it at Nuclear plants

If we drug tested we’d probably have to fire 75% of our SWEs. I’ve been here for 6 years and we have never tested.

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Is anyone changing testing policy with the increase in CBD availability and the fact that it stays in your system so long? THC levels could be increase for weeks after. We lost at least two candidates for employment due to failed testing but things are changing. How is this stuff effecting policy?

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I modified our policy somewhat, or as much as I could within my insurance and state requirements.

I have to have a clean sample no matter what for new hires. That's non-negotiable from my insurance as well as the TN Drug Free program we are required to adhere to.

I also have to have a clean sample for accidents. That again is non-negotiable from my insurance as well as the TN Drug Free program. I've explained to my guys that's how it goes and there isn't much I can do about it. Kind if sucks that if you smoke a joint on Friday night but get in an accident next week that workers comp can refuse you, but it is what it is.

We still have quarterly random tests, but marijuana is no longer an immediate termination. Every other drug is an immediate termination. Insurance requires me to have some sort of punishment for marijuana, so I dock a day of vacation and require a retest in 30 days at the employee's expense. If you fail that one, then you get another day docked and a retest again in 30 days. This repeats until 90 days, at which point you may face punishment "up to termination." I basically left it open ended.

I explain it to my guys that I don't give a shite what they do on their off time, but you're sober on company time. We work with a dangerous product that will kill you in a heartbeat. I also tell them what you do on your own time can have consequences if you're injured on company time. You're an adult and able to take that risk, if you want.

Wouldn’t surprise me if a high percentage of these ‘work from home’ cucks wouldn’t be able to pass a drug test.