Update: BC construction industry drug testing policy

If word of the recent substance hurt testing policy agreed to in British Columbia by the construction industry and the union representing construction workers was of interest to you (remark my initial post here), I found a link to the policy that you might wish to have a look at (the resolution isn't terribly good, limit it's still readable).  The provisions relating to when testing for substances can fall out starts in succession page 11.  To summarize, the policy provides for the following types of testing to be conducted:

Pre-access testing: testing to be done as a case of an employee entering a job site; Voluntary testing: employees can bypass the extremity to have being subjected to pre-access testing at each job site they wish to drudge at if they agree to volunteer to a substance test right away, agree to unannounced, wandering testing and also agree to recurring testing which would require employees to submit to a property test if they had not been tried in the preceding 36 months; Post-accident testing: an employee must submit to a substance test if involved in a job-related miscarriage and the employer believes that the employee's mental state may have contributed to the unforeseen; 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 drudge; Return-to-work, post-treatment, rehabilitation testing: suppose that an employee tests positive or refuses a test mandated under the policy, the employee is to be professionally assessed and must provide a negative test for substance use in the sight of returning to work; Probationary status/follow-up testing: an employee who tests positive for hypostasis use must undergo a further test upon return to the workplace and afterwards be subject to random testing for a period of up to sum of two units years.

It's obvious that a lot of work went into the drafting of this policy.  It will be interesting to see if any employees challenge the administration at the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

You'll see from this article on the Daily Commercial News and Construction Record website, that the construction industry isn't nimble to jump on the body the BC bandwagon.  It would appear that the unions in Ontario are expressing concerns about possible human rights legislation violations should drug testing be implemented.  As I noted in my previous post, that is the usual thesis taken by unions on this issue. 

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