Your SAPlist U Continuing Ed Quiz

You recommended 4 weeks of IOP. The employee has completed 2 weeks. With no income, he is having serious financial problems. You reported compliance, so he could return to work, on the condition that he complete his program. He had a negative return-to-duty test, and returned to work. The treatment provider called you to tell you that he had dropped out of treatment the day after he returned to work. What do you do?

A trucking company is either intrastate or interstate. What makes an employer to be an “interstate employer”?

One of the following situations would NOT permit a test to be conducted. Which one is it?

You are contracted to provide SAP services for a national EAP. The case manager tells you that they learned he is using benzodiazepines, and therefore they want the employee’s follow-up testing plan to include testing for benzodiazepines. Do you specify this in your written follow-up testing plan?

Some EAPs and SAP brokers tell SAPs that a treatment recommendation must offer choices to the employee. What is DOT’s position on “choices”?

An employee’s specimen is dilute. The MRO tells the DER to send the employee to the collection site for another test. The employee says to the DER, “I’m not going.” Who decides whether this is a refusal?

An employee raises a ruckus in the collection site. The BAT asks the employee to leave the facility without being tested. The BAT then telephones the DER and reports what has just happened. The BAT makes notes on the Alcohol Testing Form, and faxes it to the DER. Who has the final authority to decide that this was a refusal?

Under 49 CFR Part 382, which are the rules for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a SAP evaluation is required for which of the following: (This question has more than one answer)

Mary Lou is a school bus driver. She has been removed from safety-sensitive functions after she tested positive for drugs. Her employer’s policy allows her to perform non-safety-sensitive functions until she has completed a SAP return-to-duty process. Which of the following tasks is she permitted to do? (This question has more than one answer).

What do you do when an employee tells you that he will never drive a truck again, and has decided he won’t be continuing in the treatment program that you required? The employer has agreed to take him back, but he will be in a job that doesn’t require him to drive a CMV. He wants to drop out of the SAP process. What do you do?

Which of the following are included in DOT’s definition of “employer”? (This question has more than one answer).

Sammy cannot believe that he has a positive test result for marijuana. He wants to have his split specimen retested.

An employee is transferring from a non-DOT position to a DOT driver position. He has been working for more than 3 years in his non-DOT position, for which he had a negative pre-employment non-DOT test result. Is he required to take a DOT pre-employment test?

A SAP requests testing information from the MRO. The MRO says, “I have no idea who you are, and I will not give you any information.” What is the best thing you can do?

You are contracted by a national EAP to provide SAP services to an employer in your city. The EAP asks to to send your reports to them only, so they can copy them onto their letterhead, and submit them to the employer on your behalf. They say it will “relieve you of liability”. They also tell you this is a requirement if you want to get paid.

An employer decides that he would like to to test for barbiturates. How does he do that?

Helen asks the MRO to arrange for a retest of her split specimen. She explains that she has no money available to pay for the retest, but she will try to pay for it later.

When a urine specimen is above 100 degrees or below 90 degrees, the collector must inform the employee that he/she would have to provide another specimen, and that this collection would have to be monitored. If the employee refuses to provide another specimen, who decides whether this is a refusal?

How do you respond when an employee tells you that the reason for his positive test is that he is using a prescription for Adderall, but that he didn’t tell the MRO about it, because he was afraid he wouldn’t be allowed to drive. What should you do?

What would an employee be required to sign a release of information?

Sam is a new DOT client, and you agree that he can pay for your SAP services on an hourly basis. When you schedule his follow-up evaluation, he tells you that he can’t make any more payments until after he returns to his job and earns some money.

ABC Trucking called a special meeting, during which a revised DOT policy was distributed to all drivers. Attached to each policy was a receipt form, with the instruction that each driver is required to sign the receipt. After the meeting, George, a long-time driver, told his supervisor that since he was hired before these rules went into effect, he doesn’t feel that he should be required to sign a receipt. He has no objection to being tested, but he is concerned about signing “all kinds of stuff”, and his word should be good enough.

As a SAP, you become aware of someone who claims to be a SAP, but you know that he/she has not completed a Qualification Training. You also know that he/she is referring DOT clients back into the clinic where he/she works. What do you do?

Under what circumstances would you consider cancelling an employee’s follow-up testing plan?

Under FMCSA regulations, a SAP evaluation is required for which of the following: (This question has more than one answer).

A donor says he will not empty his pockets when directed to do so. The collection is halted. Who decides whether this is a refusal?

Where can we find necessary definitions related to testing (collections, laboratory analysis, MRO review, SAP return-to-duty process):

Pre-employment alcohol testing is:

You receive a panic phone call from a DER, telling you that a DOT test should have been a non-DOT test, but it was wrongly handled at the collection site. The DOT driver’s test result is positive, and the test was on a federal CCF, but it should have been a non-DOT test. The employer tells you to “just do a non-DOT evaluation”. What do you do?

Ellen drives part-time for two bus companies, Speedy Bus Lines and Big Buses, Inc. She has a positive test result on a random drug test for Speedy Bus Lines, and she is removed from duty. Ellen comes to you for SAP services. During her first appointment, you learn that Ellen has not told Big Buses about her positive test, and in fact she is still driving for that company.

Which of the following is not included in FMCSA’s definition of “actual knowledge” of alcohol use?