Compulsory drugs testing

[scottyd]

and i knew what they all where

[Dog Tag]

jasus lads...The insurance co.'s will be taken hair samples, from accident victims, from the industry next. an open forum is not the place for this. all they need is an excuse, not pay out. by the way a hair sample can tell, what and when you took, over the last 3 months. the only exception is LSD and that went out with the Indians.

[Grass hopper]

Who out there would like to make the phone call to the mother or wife of there work mate , and tell them there NOT coming home , just a had a somke and fell got cut , H&S will find out from the hospital tests and there's no way they will pay out a penny, how do you pay bills if you can't walk or dead.All just to get high, no thanks.

Just climbing 60/70 ft dose it for me.

[Peter]

When I started out as a groundie my employer told me what I now think was a little fabrication but it was effective; If you ever turn up in A&E as the result of an accident at work the docs will take a blood sample to be screened for drugs/alcohol. If its positive the insurance company will hear about it and thats you screwed.

 

I was young and impressionable but its stuck with me!

 

That is not correct. I have been to a&e myself and taken others as a result of work related accidents, it's never come up.

 

The nhs never do anything for insurance companies without getting paid for it.

[High Scale]

What a load of flannel, hair tests at A+E!!

 

The hand wringers are alive and well and still posting.

[will.morris]

For company drugs tests is it just a pee in a pot thing or do you have to give a blood sample?

 

Will have to do one if I get the job for Asplundh NZ.

[Jdtrees]

That is not correct. I have been to a&e myself and taken others as a result of work related accidents, it's never come up.

 

The nhs never do anything for insurance companies without getting paid for it.

 

Yes, but the guy was using it as a scare tactic and it worked!

[High Scale]

When I started out as a groundie my employer told me what I now think was a little fabrication but it was effective; If you ever turn up in A&E as the result of an accident at work the docs will take a blood sample to be screened for drugs/alcohol. If its positive the insurance company will hear about it and thats you screwed.

 

I was young and impressionable but its stuck with me!

 

Sorry, just re-read your post.

[woodpile]

For company drugs tests is it just a pee in a pot thing or do you have to give a blood sample?

 

Will have to do one if I get the job for Asplundh NZ.

 

In my time as a docker there were random tests and a test on starting. The starting one was a urine test, the randoms were oral swabs. Neither are particularly accurate, both are open to false positives.

 

I'm just jealous cos I don't have spliffs or rollies anymore. About to pass my previous best on nicotine quit, 8.5 months. Still miss it baaaaddddly. Not smoked weed (Apart from maybe 6/7 tokes) In well over ten years. Weed is easy to quit, and back in the day I was no lightweight...

 

Good luck with the job, mind the mossies!

[avatar tree climber]

yep on the railway we do no drugs or drink with too right too !!