Australian building and construction industry workers will have to submit to random drug of abuse (DOA) instant drug tests
Australian building and construction industry workers will have to submit to random drug of abuse (DOA) instant drug tests (instant narcotics and alcohol testing) following a ruling by that country’s peak workplace relations tribunal, Fair Work Australia (FWA).
The ruling by the full bench of FWA is binding on all building and construction industry workers and came after an employee on a road-widening project refusing to submit to DOA instant drug tests when requested to do so by his employer.
The Master Builders Association of Victoria (MBAV), the local chapter of the national body which claims more than 31,000 member companies, welcomed the DOA instant drug tests decision, calling it a “landmark” workplace health and safety decision.
“We’re not moving paper clips here, we’re moving heavy machinery and cranes. This is a giant leap forward for the building industry”, Victoria executive director Brian Welch said.
Though instant drug tests and alcohol tests have been permitted for some time, the ruling by the full bench strips away any ambiguity contained in individual workplace agreements between unions and employers regarding DOA instant drug tests.
In handing down its decision on drug of abuse instant drug tests the tribunal said: “The risks to employee safety posed by drug and alcohol use have long been recognized by this tribunal and compulsory drug and alcohol testing is, of itself, not so extraordinary that it could not be argued to be a reasonable employer instruction.”
Australia’s largest construction, forestry and forest products, and mining and energy production trade union, the CFMEU, has yet to respond to the ruling, though it is on record as having said in the past that it was concerned about instant drug tests and alcohol testing because it was against the workplace agreement on the freeway widening project.
However, Mr Welch said MBAV is aware of drug use in the Australian building industry, with speed (amphetamine-based drugs such as methamphetamine) said to be the most common because it is claimed to be the least detectable of all drugs of abuse.
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