Your SAPlist U Continuing Ed Quiz

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

Your follow-up testing program for an employee is 4 years. Two years have been completed, and two years of testing remain. The employee quits his job, and is hired by a different DOT employer, but he will not be in a DOT safety-sensitive position. What happens with the testing plan?

If a DOT driver has a prescription for Suboxone, who is the final authority as to whether the driver can actually drive a Commercial Motor Vehicle?

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?

How long does an employee have to get to the collection site, once he/she has been notified of a random selection?

An employer conducts tests for his non-DOT employees. He asks you to do a SAP process for an employee who tested positive on a non-DOT post-accident test. What do you do?

You are a Substance Abuse Professional. You are retiring and closing down your practice. What do you do with the files of your DOT clients?

At the collection site, the collector discovers the employee has bottle of a liquid in his pants pocket. Bringing something to add to the specimen is considered to be a refusal. Who decides whether this is a refusal?

Some employers think they can get by with ignoring an employee’s positive test. What are the potential consequences in an audit?

An employer must use several service agents in order to meet the requirements of Part 40, and do testing. What does DOT allow an employer to do regarding his service agents? (This question has more than one answer)

Who ultimately determines that an employee can be returned to safety-sensitive duty?

Which of the following is not acceptable as a basis for conducting a reasonable suspicion testing for alcohol? (This question has more than one answer).

Which transportation mode requires a pre-employment test when an employee has been removed from the random testing pool, and has been out of work for 90 days or more?

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

What’s wrong with this sentence: “I am working with a PHMSA employee who failed a random UA for alcohol.” (This question has more than one answer.)

Which of the following service agents is (are) required to undergo error reduction training if they make a mistake? (This question has more than one answer).

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

A truck driver in the company’s parking lot backs his truck into the side of a customer’s parked car. Since it didn’t happen on a public road, the employer couldn’t conduct a DOT test. Instead, his supervisor ordered a non-DOT post-accident test. The driver tested positive for marijuana.

If an employee adds anything to a specimen of urine, the specimen is adulterated. Adulteration is a refusal to submit to testing. Who decides that this is a refusal?

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?

One of the transportation modes requires testing of an employees body tissue (kidney, liver, etc.) when that employee dies as a result of an accident. Which mode is that?

What must an employer do when an employee has refused to submit to a test?

In the SAP Guidelines, p. 5 says that a SAP conducts a face-to-face evaluation of a client, “utilizing reliable alcohol and drug abuse assessment tools”. DOT has not specified which tools to use. Which of the following does DOT say is an “essential assessment tool to determine the correct course of treatment”?

An employer is concerned about the cost of an employee’s follow-up testing plan, and asks you if there is anything he can do about it. What do you tell him?

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?

DOT’s of reasonable suspicion testing is not the usual one.
In DOT’s definition which of the following would NOT be the basis for a supervisor to order a reasonable suspicion test? (This question has more than one answer.)

An employer with 100 employees is subject to DOT testing at a rate of 25%. Which one of the following statements is correct?

As a result of your assessment, you recommend an education program for an employee. According to DOT, what is the minimum number of contact hours for that education program?