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Drug/Alcohol Test Procedures Change
The FAA (Booth No. 2039, 2606) now requires “direct observation” during drug and alcohol tests.
Effective November 1, observers must ask an employee to “raise his or her shirt, blouse or dress/skirt, as appropriate, above the waist; and lower clothing and underpants to show you, by turning around, that they do not have a prosthetic device. An employee’s failure to cooperate constitutes refusal to take the test.
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