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What is the Supervisor’s Role & Responsibility for the Company?
- Maintain safe, healthy, and productive work environment
- Ensure public safety
- Ensure employees follow all safety requirements including drug and alcohol requirements
- Require testing of employees who violate the drug and alcohol program
Requirements for Supervisors:
- Know your company’s policy/plan and how to promote the policy/plan with company employees
- Learn the physical signs and symptoms of possible drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace
- Gain knowledge of the performance indicators of drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace
- Understand how to document a reasonable suspicion event of drug and/or alcohol abuse
- Become familiar with the skills needed for good supervisory communication
- Know what resources are available to assist an employee
Question
What is the objective of the DOT workplace anti-drug and alcohol program as a whole?
Isn’t the Federal government infringing on the private lives of transportation company employees?
A. The intent of the drug & alcohol testing program is not to control private lives of employees. The primary concern is to protect the safety of employees, passengers, and the public.
Useful Link!
Now that we have taken a look at the DOT rule and your role and responsibility in that rule, let’s take a look at the Covered Employees under the DOT Drug & Alcohol Rule
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Critical Thinking #1
Complete this lesson to move on to the next lesson! Up Next, Statistics.