D.D.T.A. Services, Inc. Drug and Alcohol Program puts you in compliance and keeps you in compliance for CFR 49 Part 199 for the Office of Pipeline Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA), to have their covered employees in a qualified drug and alcohol program.


PHMSA Requirements Are:
  1. The contractor having a current anti-substance abuse and alcohol misuse plan.

  2. The contractor's covered employees being drug tested.

  3. The contractors covered employees, (after having a negative drug test) being placed in a random drug testing program testing 25% of the pool annually.

  4. The contractor's drug and alcohol testing statistical data report completed and filed semi-annually as required.

  5. The contractor's requirement for supervisor training and employee educational material.


SOME OF THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS MAY BE OF HELP:


PHMSA: Pipeline Hazardous Material Safety Administration.

Covered Employee, Employee, or Individual to be Tested Means: A person who performs a covered function, including persons employed by operators, contractors engaged by operators, and persons employed by such contractors.

Covered Function: means an operations, maintenance, or emergency response function regulated by 49 CFR Parts 192, 193, or 195 of this chapter that is performed on a pipeline or on an LNG facility.

Such Functions May Consist of But Not Limited To: Construction work, welding, painting, right of way maintenance, electrical work, excavating work, x-ray services, aerial patrol, insulation, engineering services, mechanical maintenance, spill clean-up, environmental services, equipment maintenance, hydrostatic testing, pipeline inspections (external/internal), consultant services, asbestos removal, measurement/calibration, general maintenance, contract labor, tank (break-out) construction and maintenance, vacuum services, tank truck services (vacuum truck services), pipeline fabrication on-site, pipeline coating, compressor maintenance, corrosion control, navigation/underwater survey, pipeline location and marking, surveying, valve maintenance, safety equipment maintenance, drilling/boring. Functions such as performing clerical, payroll and administrative duties are NOT considered as performing a pipeline function and would not subject the employees to drug testing.

Supervisory Training: Contractors with less than 50 covered employees must ensure that at least one supervisor has been trained in accordance with the pipeline regulations. contractors with more than 50 employees must ensure that at least two supervisors have been trained in accordance with the pipeline regulations. Each contractor shall conduct 1 hour of drug and 1 hour of alcohol training for each supervisory who may be involved in making determinations with regard to requiring any employee to submit to reasonable cause drug testing or reasonable suspicion alcohol testing.
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