Employer Drug Testing
Every year, drug and alcohol usage costs companies lots of money due to unexcused absences, lower productivity, increased turnover employee rates and frequent workers' compensation claims. To combat these threats to your company, consider implementing a drug testing policy for employees. Test Smartly Labs has the resources to help you get started.
Our Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Services
At Test Smartly Labs, we provide several drug and alcohol testing options to detect substance use in your workplace. Our available testing can be done in one of our lab locations, or we can bring the lab to you with on-site services.
Alcohol Testing
Employee alcohol testing is necessary for situations where drinking can be dangerous — such as when operating machinery in the workplace. We offer the following services for regular alcohol testing:
- Breath: This test can monitor excessive alcohol consumption within the past 12 to 24 hours using a breathalyzer device.
- Blood spot: As the most sensitive alcohol-related testing, the blood spot alcohol test can detect different consumption levels beyond normal social drinking.
- Urine: Choose from a urine alcohol test with or without EtG detection. EtG/EtS detection tests can provide accuracy on alcohol usage between 48 to 72 hours.
- Hair: Alcohol levels can also be found in hair follicles up to 90 days after use.
- Nails: Spanning further than all the other options, nail alcohol tests can detect alcohol usage for up to six months.
Drug Screening
Our occupational drug testing services span from a basic 5-Panel of drugs to several combinations of drug metabolites. No matter what, we can customize the number of panels your company needs for accuracy. At Test Smartly Labs, we offer tailored drug-testing programs that allow you to choose from the following tests:
- Lab-based urine drug tests: This standard, safe and painless form of drug testing inspects urine to see if an individual is smoking, snorting, injecting or ingesting drugs.
- Synthetic drug testing: Synthetic drugs — such as cannabinoids and bath salts — don't always appear in regular panel tests. Instead, Test Smartly Labs uses urine and saliva tests to find these synthetic compounds.
- No-THC lab-based programs: Use this lab-based panel to test for drugs without the THC metabolite. These can range from 4-panel tests to 10-panel tests.
- Fentanyl and lab-based panels: Search for traces of fentanyl using our 5-panel to 14-panel tests, with or without THC detection.
- Rapid drug screens: As our most requested mobile service, our rapid drug screens can provide fast results wherever the test is administered.
- Hair and nail drug panels: Like with alcohol, hair follicles and fingernails can detect drug use much longer than any other option.
- Saliva tests: A saliva test is one of the quickest ways to determine recent drug use from 24 to 48 hours up to the past hour.
- Sweat patch: If an employer has high suspicions of an employee using drugs, they can use the sweat patch to detect dead skin and sweat — substances that can contain traces of drugs.
Pre-Employment Drug Testing
We can also provide pre-employment drug testing services to prevent any complications down the road. By drug testing a potential employee, you can make the most informed hiring decisions possible for the safety of your workplace. Test Smartly Labs can help aid the process through employee drug screening and background checks.
Benefits of Regular Employee Testing
Conduct regular or randomized employee drug and alcohol testing to help your company experience the following advantages:
- Safe work environment: Accidents can happen if employees are under the influence. Employee alcohol testing can significantly reduce these threats.
- Save money: Expand your work profitability using our mobile services, which help you decrease transportation expenses.
- Employee security: Your employees can feel safer and more secure in their work environment if there are regular workplace drug testing services.
- Encourage attendance: Drug testing in the workplace can decrease absenteeism and improve the overall ability of employees to perform their jobs well.
- Prevent drug use: Randomized drug testing can motivate those using drugs to quit, especially if they genuinely value their career.
Contact Test Smartly Labs Today
Test Smartly Labs provides several testing options to fit your company's needs. Our team prioritizes the people behind the testing and wants your company to succeed. Contact Test Smartly Labs today to let us help your business reach the health goals you deserve.
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Advantages of Mobile Drug & Lab Testing Services
From Fortune 500 organizations to small companies and state & federal agencies, drug testing policies are implemented. Every organization has its own reasons to perform drug and alchol testing, which includes safety, liability and risk management.
Benefits of On-site Employee Drug Testing
In addition to performing pre-employment drug testing on new employees during the hiring process, many companies require employees to participate in their mandated random drug testing programs. This is essential for developing a drug-free workplace and as a result, ensuring the safety and productivity of the workplace.
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Preventative Measures
The days are gone where employers track and document their employees as they travel to/from a drug testing center. In addition to this seemingly minor advantage, mobile lab testing can also benefit your organization by reducing the likelihood of substance abuse, to begin with.
While it’s challenging for law-abiding residents to understand, it’s not that tricky to cheat on a drug test when you can get time for preparation. If an employee is sent to an off-site location for drug testing, they have spare time while not under supervision in order to prepare for a drug screening. As the opposite, when you consider mobile drug & alcohol testing, the employee doesn’t have the opportunity to prepare to cheat the test. Random is the way to go in these cases.
The Benefits of Mobile Blood Draws for Home-Bound Patients
Well, the advantages of mobile lab testing or blood draws are not limited to employers. Indeed, the service is suitable or even right for home-bound patients. That’s come in a role when an individual needs her or his blood sample drawn, but she or he can’t make it to a lab testing center.
Blood is drawn medical professional or Phlebotomist draws patient blood sample at the house of patients or a specified location. In fact, if you have hate waiting at a laboratory center for hours until you finally get your sample drawn, then you can always make a switch to alternative Mobile Blood Draws. Indeed, in today’s busy world, there is no time for most of us to wait at a phlebotomy lab. Time is valuable. Simply prefer our mobile lab testing service that will take care of this problem. Our service works on your time and schedule. You can schedule an appointment at a time that suits you. Then, one of the phlebotomists from Test Smartly Labs come to your place for your scheduled appointment. And the phlebotomist will perform the test and be on her or his way. The entire procedure is usually done within 15-20 minutes.
Using our mobile lab testing service, you don’t have to go through the hassle of wasting your time at a laboratory. Not only you save time, but even save money by avoiding traveling to/from the offsite laboratory.
Be prepared for your drug test!
- Bring your Government Issued Picture ID
- Bring Drug Test Paperwork or Authorization
- Complete TSL Intake Form & HIPAA Disclosure
- Pay for your test on site
- Make sure you are hydrated if you are performing a Urine Test
- Expect to have your nail polish removed if getting a Nail Drug Test
- We do not need your prescription information but a Medical Review Officer (MRO) may contact you after collection to verify your medications.
- For urine testing, plan on arriving 3 hours before we close (1 hr minimum) to provide a cushion of time for a shy bladder situation.
- For hair testing, be sure to dry your hair completely before arriving.
- For nail testing, be sure to clean your nails with soap and water before arriving. Also, artificial nails and polish must be removed.
What Are Your Hours?
- All Test Smartly Labs are open Monday through Friday, from 9am - 5pm
The Overland Park Testing Center is also open from 9am – 1pm on Saturdays
Do We Need To Have An Appointment?
- No appointment is required to come into our labs, and all of our locations are on a walk-in basis. However, it is recommended you arrive at least 30 minutes prior to closing. If your situation requires special time considerations, please call us to determine if it would be better to arrange an appointment time.
Do I Need Doctors’ Orders For Testing?
- No doctors’ orders needed, we are a Direct-Access Testing Center. You are encouraged to consult your medical professional with your lab test results.
What’s The Turnaround Time For Lab Work?
- Average turnaround time is 2-5 business days depending on the complexity of the lab work. Most tests are available in 2-3 days.
Do You Need A List Of My Medications For A Drug Test?
- Per protocol, the lab techs are not allowed to receive or ask for your medications. A medical review officer or MRO, a licensed physician who specializes in toxicology, will call you and ask for your medications and your physician’s phone number if it’s detected in your sample during testing. The MRO will then call your physician to verify your medications.
The Advantages of Mobile Drug Testing
If you’re still not sure whether to make a switch from traditional or mobile drug testing, then continue reading to learn how mobile lab testing can benefit your organization.
Less substance abuse
While it’s challenging for law-abiding residents to understand, it’s not that tricky to cheat on a drug test when you can get time for preparation. If an employee is sent to an off-site location for drug testing, they have spare time, not under supervision in order to prepare for a drug screening.
However, when you consider mobile drug & alcohol testing, the employee doesn’t have the opportunity to prepare to cheat the test. Your employees will come to the workplace thinking it’s a usual day and the drug screening will be right there for the process to get started. It is a true way to get valid results. This is a smart way for you as an employer to make sure that the results of drug testing are accurate.
Save money & time with pre-employment screening
Many physical tasks within organizations have been assigned to those employees who may be incapable of doing the job due to drug or alcohol impairment. Not only this thing wastes your time but it costs a lot of money when those employees get hurt.
If an applicant seems like a suitable match for your organization, you can take advantage of pre-employment screening to determine what kind of job within your company they are the perfect suited for. If you prefer using mobile lab testing, you can get the results quite fast and make your whole hiring process easier and more efficient. Moreover, pre-employment or random screening through mobile lab testing can help you determine as much info as possible right when you need to hire somebody to fill a position, you can make the right choice for your organization.
Maintain your contracts
Let’s take an example – you have just got a major contract from a regulated industry or government and you have to take numerous steps to guarantee that your worksite and employees are fulfilling all the necessary standards. And one of the threats of sending your employee to get those drug tests is that you’ll need to go through a great lengthy contract document to make sure that you pick a drug center that follows the standards particular to your industry.
Or, you can pick a mobile drug testing service that will reach you and make sure that all testing is performed according to your company standards so that you can maintain your vital contracts.
Reduce lost productivity
Companies offering mobile drug testing services can gather and screen urine, saliva, nail, and hair samples from applicants and employees and manage the drug testing program. Samples don’t have to travel for screening and results can be given immediately. Considering this fact, your employees won’t have to leave the workplace and travel for screening. Therefore, you’ll naturally have greater involvement and fewer visits if the drug test brings to the workplace when you like.
Create an attractive work environment
Believe it or not…employees are quite interested in those workplaces that focus on sustaining healthy, happy employees. They like to know that you are investing in them as they are going to in your business. By considering mobile lab testing services on-site testing to conduct health screenings, you make it easy for your employees to remain on top of their well-being. This is one of the things that many employees would be grateful to have. Also, it portrays a depiction of an employer who comprehends their motivations and is ready to help them create a work environment according to their needs.
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