DOT Reasonable Suspicion Supervisor Training

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Supervisor Training

Instructor is Tim Zimmerman, President

First Choice Drug Testing & Ocupational Health Services

Little Rock, AR

The curriculum corresponds with the requirements in 382.603 of the FMCSA regulations requiring reasonable suspicion determinations to be based on specific, contemporaneous, and articulable observations.

The training includes the physical, behavioral, speech, and performance indicators of probable alcohol misuse and use of controlled substances.

Outline:

• History of drug testing
• Required Documentation.
• Supervisors’ role in a drug free workplace
• Indicators that might lead to RS testing.
• Different drugs and how someone may react while on that drug or withdrawing from that drug.
• Drug retention times.
• Specimen life from collection to releasing results.
• Alcohol abuse and how to spot it.
• Alcohol retention time and how the body dissipates alcohol.
• Intoxication vs tolerance.
• Six step process of standing down an employee for an RS test.
• Role playing, I am the supervisor and you’re the employee about to be stood down for RS testing how are you most likely to act.

Comes with a workbook with tons of forms and directions to complete testing in a nondiscriminatory manner.

Sprinkled throughout the presentation are our most famous cheater stories to keep everything light and hopefully interactive.

The course length is approximately 2 hours long. Certificate of training provided.

Info: Lunch provided for those that attend both Reasonable Suspicion (10am-noon) and Designated Employee Representative (DER) Training (12:30-2pm). DER is an additional class and requires separate registration and fee.

Event Venue

Rogers Public Library Foundation, 711 South Dixieland Road, Rogers, United States