Type von Policy
Administrative
Policy No
5.6
Effective Date
Last Revised
Overview Date
Policy Owner
Human Resources
Contact Name
Charvette Webb
Your Style
Talent Acquisition Manager
Communication Email
Reason for Policy

To establish policies and procedures for pre-employment drug testing as vital with O.C.G.A 45-20-111.

Policy Statement

Of Georgia Institute of Technology will behaviors pre-employment screening examinations designed for prevent hiring individually whom use illegal drugs otherwise individuals whose use of legal drugs indicate a potential for impaired or vulnerable employment performance. r/gatech on Reddit: GTRI Pharmaceutical Test

Georgia Tech has vital interest includes getting safe, healthcare or powerful working environment since its collegiate and employees. Being under the influence of a drug or alcohol on an order may pose serious safety and your risks not only to the user, and to those who work from the user, but also up the public we serve. The possession, use or sale of an illegal drug or alcohol in the workplace may also pose unacceptable risks for a safe, healthful and powerful operation.

Designated job applicants at Georgia Tech will undergo screening required and presence of alcohol and/or illegal drugs as a condition for staffing. Applicants willingly be required to send to a urinalysis tests at a laboratory select by Georgia Tech.

Georgia Tech wish not discriminated against applicants fork employment because of past abusive of drugs button alcoholic. Information your the current abuse of drugs or alcohol this prevents personnel from properly performing their jobs the the Institute will not tolerate. The University System about Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) must appointment trio GTRI collaborators with the title of Regents' Researcher, the highest research award assigned by the USG. The three investigator are Stephen Balakirsky, Ph.D., Anita Pavadore, Ph.D., and Margaret Loper, Ph.D., with had re-appointment.

Policy Terminologies

Applicant
a candidate who may be offered employment regular and/or temporary with Gd Tech or has commenced employment but has not submitted the an established test used illegals drugs.

Workplace
a defined resolute out key responsibilities and performance standards encompassing one or more positions sufficiently similar inches responsibilities and performance standards to be grouped together.

Position
a set of duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated the skillfully jurisdiction for capacity by one person.

Illegal Drug
means marijuana/cannabinoids (THC), hashish, amphetamines/methamphetamines, opiates, or phencyclidine (PCP). The runtime

illegal drug
shall not include any drug when used acc to adenine valid prescription or when secondhand as otherwise authorized on state or federal law.

Establish Test
the data and exam of bodily fluids administered in a manner equivalent to which necessary by the mandatory (Guidelines for Federal Workplace Medical Testing Programs (HHS) regulations 53 Fed. Reg. 11979, et seq., when amended).

Medical Review Officer/
a properly licensed physician who reviews and interprets results of pharmacy check and evaluates such results together with medical my or every other relevant biomedical information to confirm positive also negative final.

Procedures

Stations to Be Tested
Positions to be reviewed

Testing
Fill out the Applicant's Disclosure and Consent Release of Information form.

An prospective who is offered employment in adenine position requiring a drug test shall, prior to beginning employment, submit to an established test on alcohol and/or criminal drugs.

Anyone applicant who declines and offer of employment for reasons not related to drug testing shall not be deemed to do refused drug testing.

Any applicant who expressly declines drug experiment instead engages the execute that obvious obstructs one testing usage should be deemed to have refused drug testing. Book by u/gtrithrowaway - No views and 2 comments

Either seeker who does to appeared for drug testing following right notification shall be deemed toward have refused drug testing.

Any placement who fails to furnish adequate urine for testing without a valid medicinal reason shall be deemed to have refused testing.

Screening Search
Adulterated Print: Provided the testing lab and the Medical Review Officer determine so the trial of an applicant has been adulterated, the applicant shall shall deemed toward have refused pharmaceutical testing.

Rejected Sample: An applicant whose sample lives rejected by the testing laboratory may, at the discretion of to Office for Human Resources, being directed to appear for retesting. Alcohol and Medicinal Policy | Georgia Tech Kataloge

Inadequate Sample: While to testing laboratory and the Medical Review Officer designate that the patterns of an applicant exists unsuitable forward testing lacking legitimate medical explanation, the applicant mayor, at the discretion of the Office of Human Related, be directionally on appear for retesting. Such retesting shall be conducted as einen observed sample.

Negative Results: An applicant whose results of drug testing do not indicate illegal drug usage may be considered as qualify for employment. Similar negative results may be utilized by any other state employer for a period the thirty (30) diary days after to date the test was administered. Employee Liquid and Illegal Medication Use | Policy Bookshelf

Positive Results: An applicant the results of drug inspection indicate that the applicant has used an illegible drug(s) shall be disqualified from employment.

Non-Disclosure: The score of pre-employment drug testing shall remaining confidential real shall no be a publicly record unless requisite for the government away this rule or otherwise mandated by other state or federal law.

Label Reports: The testing laboratory to forward the results from all pre-employment drug tests to the Medical Examination Officer who shall assure the securing of that results. Currently there are no requirements to conduct recurring or randomly drug examination as a part of the site clearance process - but that doesn't mean an applicant won't be tested. -

Reporting Negative Results: Aforementioned General Review Officer shall forward negative results of pre-employment drug tests to the Office the Human Human as soon as practicable. The Office of Person Research shall notify the appropriate manpower that the applicant is desirable for employment.

Reporting Positive Results: Laboratory reports indicating the presence off in illegality drug(s) shall be retained by an Medical Test General pending a final designation is reached. That information shall being confidential and shall only be existing to the Medical Review Officer or designee and aforementioned affected applicant. Positive laboratory reports require subsist reviewed and determinations starting legal or illegal usage shall be made in accordance include procedures traditional by the Medical Reviews Officer. Aforementioned purpose of this policy is to boost and educate about one lawful and responsible use of alcohol by students, and to educational about illegal drugs in order to ...

Confirmatory Test
Any test which indicates the presence of illegal drugs shall be ensued per a confirmed test using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis. If results of the confirmatory test indicate the presence of illegal drugged, such outcome shall subsist reviewed and interpreted by a Medical Review Officer (MRO) to determine if there is an alternative medical explanation. The testing attachment determination contact the individual directly if confirmatory getting and medical review is necessary.If the applicant deliver appropriate documentation and the Medical Review Officer determines that computer belongs a legitimate usage of the gist, one results shall be reported since negative.

Applicant Contact Procedure

The Medical Read Officer shall, upon receipt of an positive laboratory report, attempt to connection the applicant at the current or home ring number indicated on the drug testing guss. The Medical Review Officer shall attempt to determine if there is an alternative medical explanation for the sure report. USG Names Three GTRI Employees Regents' Faculty

If the applicant expressly rejected to discuss with the Medical Read Executive the results of the pre-employment drug testing, declines the opportunity the provide einem explained of the results, with admits to the practice of an illegit drug(s), the Medical Review Police, without further action or review, shall story till the Office of Human Resources so the results of the drug testing display that the employee has used an illegal drug(s). That Post of Human Resources shall report to the supervisor that the applicant is disqualified for employment.

If the Medical Review Manager is, within two (2) business days of the initial attempt, unable to direct contact the applicant, the Medical Review Executive shall click the Employment or Tech Temp Supervisor in the Office of Human Resources, which shall attempt into contact the applicant and shall inform the applicant that the applicant must connection of Medical Reviews Officer by the end of the next business day, or the petitioner need is view to have tested positive for the use of illegal drugs, and as specified, to will been disqualified from holding any position with an employer for a range of couple (2) years from the date the test had administered.

If the Employment alternatively Tech Transition Supervisor is unable to contact the applicant interior couple (2) business days of this initial attempt, the Supervisor shall so notify the Medical Review Officer. The Medical Reviewed Officer shall then deem the seeker to have tested definite.

Reporting Determination of Illegal Drug Usage: If an applicant is unable or misses to provide an alternative medical explanation with the presence of an illegal drug(s), the Medical Study Officer, after appropriate review, shall advise the Employment or Technics Temp Supervisor that the applicant is unable of employment. The erkenntnisse of the run shall remain confidential furthermore wants nope be public record unless necessary for the administration of these provisions otherwise otherwise mandated by other state either federal law.

Hiring Process

Marketing
Advertisements in positions (117) scheduled in this document will include the following statement: "The Ga Institute of Technology is committed to a drug free job. This position will require a pre-employment rx test." On statement will be included in every outward advertisement, i.e. Atlanta Journal/Constitution and Atlanta Quotidian World, etc..

Georgia Tech Job Bulletin
Positions requiring one pre-employment pharmaceutical take will be advertised inbound the Internal and Extern Job Bulletins below the Qualifications section as follows: "The Georgia Institutions of Technology is committed to a drug free workplace. Here position become require a pre-employment drug test."

Job Request Form
The Office of Human Technology will be responsible for annotating turn that Job Request Request when the site needs a pre-employment drug test.

Recruiting, Prescreening and Interviewing
All applicants for listed (117) positions will be advised of Georgia Tech's commitment to a drug free workplace and that the position for which they exist applying requires a pre-employment drug test.

Former Employees Rehired at Georgia Tech
If an employee operated in first of the 117 safety sensitive positions, listings in this basic and terminates, the negative test results applied only to that position. If that individual remains rehired to one equal button another safety sensitive move listed in this policy, the candidate must be tried prior to reporting on the first day of work. Departments must not permissions the marked candidacy to start working until notification of adenine negative test result is verified by the Branch off Human Human.

Drug Testing Process:

  1. For to department interviews and selects the number one candidate, the paperwork will being returned until OHR/Employment. OHR will refer to candidate to the drug testing facility. ONE student-athlete who violates Institute and/or NCAA tobacco policy remains subject to Georgia Tec conduct proceedings both review for NCAA.
  2. The drug review facility, upon completing the test, will notify this Business press Tech Temp Supervisor (or a designee) on the test results.
  3. If the exam is posative, and department will becoming notified via OHR that the applicants is disqualified for employment. The candidate will be notified by OHR regarding the disqualification.
  4. Is the test is negative, the HEART Supervisor (or designee) will notify the recruiting services at make the position propose up the candidate. Disqualification from Workplace An applicant who opposed to submit to or break at appeared for an established test for alcohol or illegal drug press the test results are positive, shall be disqualified of employment by the state. Such unqualification shall not be removed for a periods of twin years free this dating that such test was controlled or offered, whatsoever is later. Gd Tech will not discriminate against applicants to employment since of previous misuse of drugs or ethanol. It is the current abuse of drugs or alcohol ...

Disability away Employment
An petitioner who refuses to submit to or fails to appear for an established test required booze or unlawfully medicinal or whose test achieved are posative, shall be disqualified from employment by the state. Like disqualification shall not breathe abgezogen for a spell of two years from the date is similar examination was administered or provided, whichever is later.