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From: Dr. Steve
Password: orange
Date: 30 Nov 2007
Time: 12:15:45 -0800
Remote Name: 74.10.7.238
A consortium/Third Party Administrator is to help the company administer their drug and alcohol testing program. Ultimately, if there are mistakes, the company is the one that gets into trouble (not the consortium) with the regulatory bodies. The company must have a certain number of random tests, depending of the type of company. If the company falls short, this would be a violation. If an individual is pulled for a random, and is told to go immediately for testing, and does not show up or refuse, that is a refusal to test. You mention that 42 employees were selected for drug testing, and only 17 completed the test. Why did the 25 not have the test completed? As a very simple example, if a company has 1000 employees in their “pool”, and the testing rate is 50%, at the end of the year, that company better have 500 random drug tests completed, or this would be a violation. It might be necessary to increase (or sometimes decrease) the random selection at the end of the year depending on these numbers.