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Alcohol and Drug Testing

JK ProCare SYStems can provide testing and collection using any of the following methodologies:

 

 

Alcohol Testing

 

JK ProCare Systems use and recommend breathalyser instruments accredited by the Australian Standard AS3547.

 

JK ProCare Systems testing staff have been trained in the use and management of the data from these units and have provided training to clients to facilitate rapid on-site testing especially in rural and remote locations.

 

Drug Testing

 

             Urinalysis

 

Urinalysis is the most common form of human drug testing available to industry. It is accurate and reliable with urine samples relatively easy to collect, store and transport.  A positive drug test is evidence of recent drug exposure, but does not indicate the level of impairment.  Positive samples are defined as results above predetermined and accepted standards or thresholds. Urine testing is also legally defensible by appeal to the relevant Australian Standard AS/NZS4308:2001.

 

ORAL FLUIDS

 

Oral fluid testing is now covered by Australian Standard AS4760

 

An oral fluid specimen may be used to establish recent drug use at a workplace or at the roadside for drivers.

 

 It is not appropriate to relate the presence of drugs in oral fluid to impairment, but rather, to recent use.

 

             Other Methodologies

 

At this point, other methodologies using sweat or other bodily fluids are not protected by an Australian Standard and laboratories as well as point of collection devices vary significantly in their methodologies.

 

Non-standardised testing may still prove to be a useful screening device as long as confirmatory sampling utilises an approved technology and quality assurance testing of negative screens is undertaken at an approved laboratory.

 

There is a wide variation in the cost of devices and laboratory analysis.