Current Life Learning. Fleet Safety

My most pressing occupation at the moment is to read, understand, digest and implement the Fleet Safety Compliance Manual so that I can be qualified to be the Fleet Safety Officer for both of our companies.  As of this moment, I am on page 16 of the personnel section.  I have been working on reading, understanding and digesting this information for 4 days so far. Yes, that is right, 4 days 16 pages, that averages to 4 pages a day and I am spending HOURS a day reading this information.

 Try just this bit on for size:


§ 40.13 How do DOT drug and alcohol tests relate to non-DOT tests?
 (a) DOT tests must be completely separate from non-DOT tests in all respects.

(b) DOT tests must take priority and must be conducted and completed before a non-DOT test is begun. For example, you must discard any excess urine left over from a DOT test and collect a separate void for the subsequent non-DOT test.

(c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, you must not perform any tests on DOT urine or breath specimens other than those specifically authorized by this part or DOT agency regulations. For example, you may not test a DOT urine specimen for additional drugs, and a laboratory is prohibited from making a DOT urine specimen available for a DNA test or other types of specimen identity testing.

(d) The single exception to paragraph (c) of this section is when a DOT drug test collection is conducted as part of a physical examination required by DOT agency regulations. It is permissible to conduct required medical tests related to this physical examination (e.g., for glucose) on any urine remaining in the collection container after the drug test urine specimens have been sealed into the specimen bottles.

(e) No one is permitted to change or disregard the results of DOT tests based on the results of non-DOT tests. For example, as an employer you must not disregard a verified positive DOT drug test result because the employee presents a negative test result from a blood or urine specimen collected by the employee's physician or a DNA test result purporting to question the identity of the DOT specimen.

(f) As an employer, you must not use the CCF or the ATF in your non-DOT drug and alcohol testing programs. This prohibition includes the use of the DOT forms with references to DOT programs and agencies crossed out. You also must always use the CCF and ATF for all your DOT-mandated drug and alcohol tests.

Got it?  Now explain it.   

At home, or at work while I am walking on the tread mill I am also reading a book by Laura Vanderkam called What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. This is a book on time management and the way we look at our world.  My goal is to finish that book this weekend.  Yes, I said that last weekend and then didn't do it.  But I am planning on reading Sunday whether my house gets cleaned up, or laundry gets done or not.  This is important and the things it will bring in to my life is also important so it will get done. 

New day, new pages,  And the end of section one Personnel... now on to operations..