The process of conducting drug tests and taking samples such as hair, urine, saliva or breath from your employees is of course a sensitive matter. Certain ethical issues including your employees human rights need to be taken into consideration. It is therefore important that your employees are made fully aware of your company’s need to test and be assured that tests are carried out in the correct way.
An employees consent to be tested must be established within the employment contract. Off course it is against a person’s human rights to force them to provide a test sample if they are unwilling to do so, however they will be in breech of their employment contract if they refused to take a test.
An Employees consent will be further established by them undertaking training and education so that they are informed of your workplace Drug Test Policy. A Consent to Test form will be signed by the employee giving their consent for your company to conduct the relevant tests as outlined in your organisations Drug Testing Policy. Under no circumstances should a company undertake the drug testing process without receiving the employees consent.