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Abstract
To prevent truck crashes due to substance use:
- Employers should implement and enforce a policy that prohibits commercial drivers who are ill or taking over-the-counter medications with potential side effects for impaired driving from operating a commercial vehicle.
- Employers should implement and enforce a “reasonable suspicion” drug testing policy if a driver is suspected to be under the influence of drugs.
- Companies should conduct comprehensive new-hire prescreening and after-hire random drug testing for substance abuse.
- A nationwide data- base containing a record of all commercial driver positive drug tests in the last two years should be developed.
Document Type
Alert
Publication Date
8-2008
Repository Citation
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, "Truck Drivers in Fatal Crashes After Substance Use" (2008). Kentucky Haz Alerts--Motor Vehicle. 7.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/face_vehicle_alerts/7
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Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Commons, Public Health Education and Promotion Commons
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Haz Alert, v. 6, issue 2.