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DOT/FAA Drug Testing & Alcohol Testing
Norton Medical Industries provide foremost DOT & FAA compliant drug testing, alcohol testing, drug screening as well as employee drug testing services. Our efficient and expedient testing results are available online the next day. To find out more Call us at 1.800.243.7669 or Visit www.nortonmedical.com
 
 
 
Welcome To Norton Medical Industries
Drug and Alcohol use in workplaces costs the employers. For the employer substance abuse may result in loss of productivity, increased risk of accidents and increase in employee turnover. Faced with the increasing potential and actual risks involving drug usage in the workplaces as well as legal and moral requirements to provide a safe, secure and healthy workplace environment many employers are turning to employee drug testing as well as drug screening programs to reduce these risks. For the past two decades Norton Medical Industries' (NMI) mission has been to actively discourage the use of drugs in the workplace. The implementation of this simple concept has dramatically reduced drug usage in every industry and workplace. At Norton Medical we specialize in Drug and Alcohol Programs that comply with DOT and FAA regulations including
Corporate Pre-Employment Drug Testing
Corporate Random Drug Testing
Worker & Supervisor Education
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Drug testing – the beginning
Federally regulated drug testing started in 1989 when the Department of Transportation put into place its drug and alcohol testing program for covered workers. At the start of the DOT regulated drug testing program, 18 % of American truck drivers drug tested positive, with cocaine, marijuana or amphetamines in their urine.

Since then with implementation of strict regulations the rate of positive drug tests has gone down tremendously. In 1998, 5% of pre employment drug tests were positive for illicit drugs, and for those employees in random drug test
 

Drug testing was initially introduced in 1989 with the Department of Transportation (DOT) taking the initiative in countering the alarming number of cases of drug abuse in workplaces. With the introduction of regulations to ensure a drug free working environment the drug abuse in workplaces has gone down substantially.

The federal drug testing program focuses on urine drug testing. A chain of custody form is used to ensure the drug testing process integrity. The analysis of the urine is first processed with a general drug screening test for the presence of illicit drug; then, if the initial employee drug

 
When does the Department of Transportation (DOT) require employee drug testing?
The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 requires drug and alcohol testing of safety-sensitive transportation employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, mass transit, pipelines and other transportation industries. DOT publishes rules on who must conduct drug and alcohol tests, how to conduct those tests and what procedures to use when testing. These regulations cover all transportation
 
About DOT Drug Test Programs
Safety First
The Department of Transportation (DOT) Drug Test policy is based on the most primary motive of safety first. The DOT has made it its mission to ensure that safety, across all modes of transportation - on roads, rails, water, in the air, over land and underground, is their no.1 priority. And the cornerstone of this safety policy is to ensure that transportation providers across all modes employ
Norton medical Industries (NMI) based in Van Nuys, CA is a leading provider of drug testing and drug screening services as well as DOT drug testing and employee drug testing. Norton Medical specializes in Drug and Alcohol Programs that comply with DOT and FAA regulations.

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