This new online course featuring Bill Judge, nationally known DOT Drug Law Expert, is designed to help you meet the DOT training requirements for supervisors of covered safety-sensitive employees as described in 49 CFR Part 40. The training materials address reasonable suspicion as a performance issue, and as something in reality they are already doing.

What supervisors need to know is what to look for and what to do if someone seems unfit for duty. Using the Four Steps of Constructive Confrontation and Documentation developed by the U.S. Navy and in practice nationally over the last fourteen years, supervisors can now take action knowing they are protecting everyone. Supervisors will know not only how and when to do reasonable suspicion/cause testing but why they need to do it.

Designed to help you meet DOT compliance training requirements the kit includes:

• The Effects of Alcohol and Drugs in the Workplace
• The Role of the Supervisor in a DOT Testing Program
• Signs, Symptoms, and Behavioral Indicators of the DOT 5 Prohibited
• Drugs and Alcohol Misuse:
• Prohibited Behavior and Prescription Drug Use
• How to Recognize and Document Performance using the Behavior
• Observation Checklist
• How to apply the Four Steps of Constructive Confrontation
• How to handle employee defense strategies
• What to do when:
• An employee refuses to be tested
• A supervisor receives hearsay information
• An employee discovers a suspicious substance
• An employee who leaves the worksite without authorization after being unfit for duty

Included in the Course Materials Section of the Online Course:

DOT Supervisor Handbook:

Follows the instructional video segments and provides additional information along with reproducible checklists and documentation to perform post accident and reasonable suspicion testing.

Do It Right! Reasonable Suspicion Pocket Guide:

Contains smaller versions of the instructions, observation form, consent to test, and refusal forms so both the supervisor and employee can use what they know to take immediate action and have the necessary documentation.

About Bill Judge

Bill Judge is a practicing attorney who for the past 24 years has focused his practice on research, consultation, litigation assistance, and management training related to the legal issues of substance abuse in the workplace and our nation's schools.

Bill Judge is the principal research architect of the Center for Drug Test Information and a practicing attorney, who for the past 24 years has focused his practice on research, consultation, litigation assistance, and management training related to the legal issues of substance abuse in the workplace and our nation's schools.

A ten-year instructor for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine MRO course and a past advisor to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Bill has lectured extensively on school and workplace substance abuse issues.

For the past three years he has participated in national and regional student drug testing summits sponsored by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

Additionally, he was an invited panelist at the 1988 White House Conference for a Drug-Free America and participated in Railway Labor Executives Association vs. Skinner, decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1989. Bill has edited and written countless articles and publications, including, "Drug Testing: Motor Carrier Compliance Manual", published by J.J. Keller & Associates, "Omnidex", "Part 40 Merged" and in 2002 co-authored DoingItRight: Drug-Free School Testing.Info-Lab, Inc., co-founded in 1995 by Bill, managed Workplace Health CO-OP until 1999.

From 1998 to 1999 Info-Lab, Inc. also co-owned and operated Info-Meth, a DHHS-certified laboratory located in Peoria, Illinois.

Bill's most recent projects include the creation of an online legal reference resource called DTStateLaws, and the CollectorRegistry. DT State Laws is an exhaustive web-based resource of full-text state drug testing laws and court decisions. The Collector Registry is an on-line audit and repository service.

Bill is also a past Co-Chairman of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce Drug-Free Illinois Workplace Program and has served as the Director of Compliance, Substance Abuse Services, for Verifications, Inc. Bill resides in the Chicago area with his wife, also an attorney, and their two children.