Locate a SAP Provider in Texas
If you are a DOT mandated employee in Texas (or anywhere nationwide), performing safety-sensitive duties, you are responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for your fellow employees and the traveling public. However, a safe work environment not only means following work rules, but also fulfilling DOT alcohol and drug testing requirements. Ensuring employers identify those who use illegal substances and to point them towards treatment programs, prevents injuries and saves lives. DOT mandated employees must comply with all random drug and alcohol tests administered by your employer. If you get a positive result or refuse to submit to a test, you will be removed from your safety-sensitive position and must undergo an evaluation by a SAP provider in Texas.
Getting You Back to Work
Do you know what a SAP does to help you after you have been removed from your job?
A SAP recommends the appropriate treatment and education. A SAP is mandated to provide a detailed face-to-face evaluation and clinical assessment to determine what kind of treatment the employee needs to resolve his/her problems associated with alcohol or drug use. The SAP then recommends a course of treatment or education. This may include in-patient treatment, partial in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, approved drug and alcohol education courses, and even self-help groups. This is beneficial to the employee because he or she will be able to recover from substance use.
A SAP helps you get back to work. Another benefit a SAP offers is that he/she can decide when the employee is fit to resume their safety-sensitive duties. This process is completed with another face-to-face evaluation. After which, the SAP determines if the employee has successfully complied with recommendations of the initial evaluation.
You can receive follow-up tests and aftercare. A SAP also has the fundamental responsibility of developing a direct follow-up program for the employee returning to work after successful compliance. Additionally, the SAP also determines the number and frequency of unannounced follow-up tests. There should be a minimum of six tests in the first year after the employee returns to his safety-sensitive duties. Follow-Up testing and aftercare are important to the employee because they assure complete recovery.
Contact a SAP Provider in Texas with SRS
Now that you know why a SAP is necessary, how do you find one? You could try an online search for a SAP provider, but that is not always so easy. To ensure that your recovery steps are recognized by the DOT and your employer, you must be sure that you work with a qualified SAP.
If you have failed a random drug and/or alcohol test you likely have questions. At SAP Referral Services (SRS) we are here to answer them. We guide you every step of the way as you start your return-to-duty process to resume your safety-sensitive duties. With SRS help you can be scheduled for an appointment with a qualified SAP provider in Texas, usually within 72-business hours. We also ensure that the SAP provider is professionally licensed and knowledgeable of the DOT guidelines. Our FastTrack Enrollment takes just a few minutes, get started today.
SAP Referral Services (SRS) is the leading facilitator for mandated substance abuse evaluations. SRS maintains an extensive network of qualified providers in more than 3,000 locations nationwide for testing violations that originate from any of the DOT’s modes including FMCSA, FAA, FRA, FTA, USCG and PHMSA, or a company’s internal drug and alcohol testing policy.