A meth manufacturing lab in a local hotel sweep early Monday morning resulted in a fiery blaze that left three police officers and an infant child suffering from chemical inhalation.
Officers from the Richmond Police Department were called at 1:25 a.m. Monday to the Knight?session Inn Motel, 1688 Northgate Drive, to investigate a reported fire.
?Upon arrival, officers discovered heavy smoke arrival from the open door of Room 323,? Sgt. Willard Reardon said. ?After determining that no one was inside the room, officers retreated and the Richmond Fire Department extinguished the blaze.?
?We responded and extinguished the fire,? RFD Public Affairs Officer Corey Lewis said.
(Read the full post about ‘Meth Lab Fire Injures Infant’…)
Except in states where prohibited, employers have the right to require applicants or employees to succumb to a drug test. In fact, it is required for several positions. As stated by Mathis, ?The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 requires government contractors to take steps to eliminate employee drug use? (507). If such employers fail to do so, they would be putting themselves in a position to possibly confuse their contract. The U.S. Department of Transportation also require regular testing of all truck and bus drivers, train crews, mass-transit employees, airline pilots and mechanics,pipeline workers and licensed sailors.
(Read the full post about ‘The Pros and Cons of Employer Drug Testing Programs’…)
If news of the late substance abuse testing address agreed to in British Columbia by the construction industry and the union representing construction workers was of interest to you (see my initial post here), I ground a link to the policy that you might wish to have a look at (the resolution isn't terribly good, but it's still readable). The provisions relating to when testing for substances can occur starts on page 11. To summarize, the policy provides for the following types of testing to subsist conducted:
Pre-access testing: testing to be done as a condition of an employee entering a job site; Voluntary testing: employees can bypass the need to be subjected to pre-access testing at each job site they wish to work at if they agree to volunteer to a substance test right away, yield assent to unannounced, fortuitous testing and also agree to periodic testing which would require employees to submit to a substance standard if they had not been tested in the preceding 36 months; Post-accident testing: an employee must give up to a real being test suppose that involved in a job-related unforeseen and the employer believes that the employee's mental state may have contributed to the accident; Reasonable suspicion testing: employees are subject to substance testing where the employer suspects they have used drugs at work or are under the influence of drugs at work; Return-to-work, post-treatment, rehabilitation testing: admitting that any employee tests positive or refuses a touchstone mandated under the policy, the employee is to be professionally assessed and must provide a negative test for substance exercise before returning to work; Probationary standing/follow-up testing: an employee who tests positive during texture employment must undergo a further test about go to the workplace and afterwards be subject to random testing for a period of up to two years. (Read the full post about ‘Update: BC construction industry drug testing policy’…)
Associated Press - September 4, 2008 12:14 PM ET
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A published report says Kentucky officials are considering establishing a top-quality equine drug testing laboratory.
The Lexington Herald Leader reported the facility could be new or might subsist the relocation of an existing lab from another state.
Tracy Farmer, who chairs the Governor’sitting Task Force on the Future of Horse Racing, told the newspaper a most honorable position lab from out of state has contacted pomp officials with an eye to relocating in Kentucky.
Farmer declined to name the facility.
The task force met Wednesday in Lexington and will next come up to face to face on Sept.
(Read the full post about ‘Ky. considering in-state drug testing for horses’…)
September 3, 2008
Workplace Safety
Ontario jobsite drug testing will not happen soon
Joint agreement with labour needed
VINCE VERSACE
staff writer
A drug and alcohol testing policy reached in conjunction by construction unions and employers in British Columbia is not an indicator of things to come in Ontario, say various persistence officials.
?There is discussion here in Ontario about drug testing but at the moment labour and surveillance appear to be diametrically hostile on the issue,?
(Read the full post about ‘This Time LIUNA on the Wrong Side of Drug Testing Debate’…)
“Cheating remains the Achilles’ heal of drug urine testing in all settings,” says Robert DuPont, president of the Institute for Behavior and Health Inc. and former director of the National Institute onward Drug Abuse. With increasing opportunities for the sake of testing?by prospective employers, schools, and parents?experts worry that teens may have more impetus than ever to try.
Last week, at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., toxicologist Amitava Dasgupta of University of Texas-Houston medical school demonstrated various ways that employees try to beat workplace drug tests?and how experts foil these schemes in the laboratory.
(Read the full post about ‘Cheating is Achillees Heal of Urine Drug Tests’…)
This is a fascinating settlement as it shows the long way the industry has to go in offering comprehensive testing solutions.
(Read the full post about ‘Interesting ruling on drug testing in the workplace’…)
If nothing otherwise from NASCAR’s Labor Day weekend trip to Auto Club Speedway in southern California is a positive, at smallest the sanctioning body is taking steps to make the sport safer in the coming weeks.
NASCAR CEO Brian France announced Sunday at the track that NASCAR will be unveiling a new mix with drugs testing policy in the coming weeks that will likely take effect at the time that the 2009 season begins at Daytona in February.NASCAR officials have approached divers teams in newly come weeks, using them as sonorous boards on ideas for the new policy. (Read the full post about ‘NASCAR to Finally Step Up Drug Testing’…)
Posted on September 1, 2008
Thinking about implementing unsalable article and alcohol testing at your charge? Worried about the cost of such tests? Does the intrusiveness of some tests make you feel like reconsidering how to go hind part near the front of testing your employees? The sense of indemnification and feeling of defence greatly overpoise the price of alcohol detection drug service testing
New technologies in drug and alcohol testing may surprise you. Hair alcohol testing http://www.hairalcoholtesting.com/resources/hair-alcohol-test.html and hair drug testing is the latest ascertainment for employee screening as being alcohol and drug abuse.
(Read the full post about ‘Health, The Results Outweigh the Cost of Hair Alcohol Testing …’…)
September 1, 2008
Occupational Health and Safety
Drug method of treating facility not included in B.C.’s reinvigorated mix by drugs testing policy
Richard Gilbert
staff writer
The only residential medicine treatment centre in western Canada geared specifically to meet the indispensably of construction workers through hypostasis abuse problems has not been included in B.C.’sitting new remedy testing address.
The Construction Labour Relations Association (CLRA) of B.C. and the Bargaining Council of British Columbia Building Trade Unions announced on Aug. 21 that B.C.’s construction unions and their employers are implementing a new substance abuse testing and treatment worldly wisdom.
(Read the full post about ‘Drug treatment facility not included in BC’s new drug testing policy’…)