Random Drug and Alcohol Testing

Kroll (formerly InfoLink Screening Services) can manage the selection of your employees for your Random Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. Kroll's random selection program makes setting up and maintaining random pool groups easy. Simply tell us who will belong to the random pool group, how often you want to schedule tests, and what percentage of the pool needs to be tested. Kroll will do the rest. Our program also provides you with prevention of multiple selections - this option prevents individuals from being selected more than once within a scheduling period (weekly, monthly, quarterly, or manual scheduling). In addition, test notices can be automatically emailed or faxed to your company to let you know who has been randomly selected.

• Kroll's program meets the random selection requirements of the Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Dept. of Energy (DOE), Dept. of Defense (DOD) and National Response Center (NRC)
• Automatically selects and schedules personnel for random testing
• Notification of individual to be tested is provided via email or fax
• No additional fee for program management

The following states have restrictions on random drug testing:

California: Courts in California have not defined laws pertaining to random drug testing, so employer's rights remain uncertain. Until more definition to the law is provided by the courts a prudent strategy is to assume that unless the employee works in a safety or security sensitive position, random testing is subject to legal challenge.

Connecticut: Prohibited, unless employee is assigned to a high risk or safety sensitive position.

Iowa: Employees must be selected via an entity independent of the employer and by using a computer-generated, neutral selection procedure (Kroll's program satisfies this requirement).

Maine: Permitted only if agreed upon in a collective bargaining agreement, or for positions in which there would be an unreasonable risk to health or safety if the employee was “under the influence.” Labor organizations are prohibited from performing random test on members.

Minnesota: Permitted for safety sensitive positions only. A safety sensitive position is one in which impairment caused by drug use would threaten the health and safety of any person. An employee may not be waived once selected from the random pool.

Montana: Law addresses only safety sensitive employees. When random drug testing all safety sensitive employees, the program must contain: (1) an established calendar period for testing; (2) an established random testing rate; (3) a random selection process; and (4) a signed statement from each employee confirming employee has received written copy of program.

Rhode Island: Prohibited.

Vermont: Prohibited, except when otherwise required by federal law or regulation.