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Chapter 5. TRAINING
Training and educating your workforce
and supervisors are major components of a
successful drug and alcohol testing program.
The benefits of the program are enhanced
when your employees and supervisors
understand your policies and procedures,
why they are being implemented, and what
their responsibilities are.
Well-trained employees and supervisors
help you achieve your safety goals and
maintain program integrity, which reduces
your program costs and liabilities, and
improves company morale. The FTA
regulations require specific training for
safety-sensitive employees and their
supervisors.
The requirements with which you must
comply are summarized in this chapter and
corresponding sample course outlines are
also provided in the Sample Documentation
section.
The regulations do not require you to
provide any education or training for nonsafety-sensitive
employees, nor do they
require supervisory training for supervisors
who will not be determining when to
administer a reasonable suspicion test.
Similarly, the regulations do not require
refresher training for safety-sensitive
employees. You are encouraged, however,
to provide additional training beyond the
requirements of the regulation under your
own authority.
Section 1. TRAINING FOR
SAFETY-SENSITIVE
EMPLOYEES
The FTA drug and alcohol testing
regulation (§655.14) requires each covered
employer to establish an education and
training program for all covered employees.
The program must include a general
education component, training for all safetysensitive
employees, and training for all
supervisors and/or other company officers
Chapter 5. Training 5-1 August 2002