Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 3364-25-17 | Pre-employment drug testing.

                                                
(A) Policy statement
It is the university of Toledo health science
		  campus objective to provide the highest quality health education, research, and
		  services, with a responsibility to do so in a safe environment. Employees under
		  the influence of drugs and/or alcohol while on the job create serious safety
		  and health risks to themselves, patients, guests, co-workers, and the health
		  science campus. "UTMC" prohibits the unlawful manufacture,
		  distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of any controlled substances
		  including the unsanctioned use of alcohol, on UTMC property, or as any part of
		  its activities. The term "controlled substance" means a controlled
		  substance in schedules I through V of rule 202 of the Controlled Substances Act
		  (21 U.S.C. 812). This includes all illegal drugs and legal drugs used without a
		  physician's order. It does not prohibit taking prescribed medications
		  under the direction of a physician. Marijuana prescribed or recommended by a
		  physician pursuant to state law remains an illegal drug listed on Schedule I of
		  the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), and the use, possession, or distribution
		  of medical marijuana is prohibited.
(B) Purpose of policy
"UTMC" is committed to maintaining a
		  workplace that is free from the detrimental effects of drug and/or alcohol
		  abuse. To prevent hiring or otherwise placing individuals whose use of
		  controlled substances indicates a potential for impaired or unsafe job
		  performance, the health science campus conducts preemployment drug testing. All
		  individuals, including rehires, seeking any faculty, staff, contingent,
		  temporary, resident, volunteer, and select graduate* and undergraduate student*
		  "positions, upon an offer of employment, will be required to submit to a
		  drug screen through the controlled collection of a urine sample within seven
		  business days of offer." All applicants will be informed, either by
		  completing an application in human resources or through oral communication,
		  that any employment offer is conditional upon successful completion of a drug
		  test.
"Graduate assistant and student worker
		  positions that will be working in any patient care areas or enter patient care
		  areas in the course of performing the duties of their job."
(C) Procedures
(1) Prior to or
			 concurrently with conditionally offering an individual employment, human
			 resource representatives will provide the applicant the telephone information
			 to occupational health for purposes of scheduling an appointment for medical
			 screening which will include a drug test. Occupational health will ask each
			 individual to sign the donor consent form. Any applicant who chooses not to
			 allow the drug screen will be informed he/she is no longer a candidate for
			 employment.
(2) The medical review
			 officer ("MRO") will review the results of all positive drug tests.
			 Occupational health will notify human resources of all drug test results.
			 Individuals with negative results will continue the normal hiring procedures.
			 The MRO will review individuals testing positive to ensure the positive result
			 is not due to a medical condition or physician prescribed medication. If no
			 legitimate medical explanation can be provided, the medical review officer will
			 inform the applicant that human resources will be advised of the positive test
			 results. A human resource representative will subsequently contact applicants
			 who test positive to withdraw the offer of employment. Human resources will
			 also notify hiring department managers of applicants who test positive and are
			 not eligible for employment. A separate notification process will be followed
			 for faculty and resident hires.
(3) No applicants will be
			 permitted to actually begin work until the results of the drug test are
			 determined and proper notification is provided. Applicants who are moving to
			 the area to have a drug test in advance of their move. In these situations,
			 occupational health will schedule an appointment for drug testing in that area
			 and all results will be reviewed through occupational health.


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