Reasonable Suspicion Supervisory Training for Your Organization

SAP Referral Services (SRS) offers several services aimed at helping organizations who have DOT mandated safety-sensitive employees on staff. Some of our services include evaluations such as DOT, and Non-Regulated/Company compliant substance abuse evaluations, DWI/DUI compliant substance abuse evaluations, psychological evaluations, and fitness-for-duty evaluations. Additionally, SRS offers critical incident stress management for employees, compliance reporting, follow-up testing recommendations, and reasonable suspicion supervisory training. All these programs are meant to help an organization and its employees navigate through alcohol and drug policies.

Reasonable Suspicion Supervisory Training

SRS offers a Reasonable Suspicion Supervisory Training program that educates supervisory staff on how to recognize possible signs of drug or alcohol abuse. The program focuses on learning to spot physical, speech, performance, and behavioral patterns in employees that can indicate a problem. Additionally, the training will educate supervisory staff on how to manage employees that have a substance abuse problem. The training program can be conducted onsite or via a webinar.

Reasonable Suspicion: When Employees are Tested

Reasonable suspicion means one or more supervisors have observed the employee showing signs of alcohol or drug use in their appearance, speech, behavior, or smell. Having a feeling or a hunch is not considered enough to conduct testing.

If the supervisory staff witnessed enough to have reasonable suspicion, drug or alcohol testing should immediately follow. Employees that are requested to perform a drug or alcohol test from a supervisor, due to reasonable suspicion, must oblige. Refusing to submit to the test is equivalent to failing.

Safety-sensitive workers that violate the drug and/or alcohol policy need to be removed from their safety-sensitive duties immediately for their safety, the safety of their coworkers, and the general public.

SAP Referral Services: The Easy Solution

Supervisory staff must understand the rules around reasonable suspicion. Selecting an employee for testing without following proper protocols means the organization has violated the employees’ rights. This could lead to potential lawsuits or settlements.

Partner with SAP Referral Services to conduct training so you and your organization know the proper rules about reasonable suspicion supervisory training testing. Contact us today to find out more about our program and how it can help your organization and its safety-sensitive workers. Established in 2003, SRS has over 15 years of experience assisting companies with compliance and productivity.

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.