Oklahoma § 40-557 - Licensure and regulation of testing facilities Alternative testing methods

§ 40-557. Licensure and regulation of testing facilities Alternative testing methods

A. The State Board of Health shall have the power and duty to

promulgate, prescribe, amend and repeal rules for the licensure and

regulation of testing facilities, which shall include, but not be

limited to, the following:

1. Qualifications of testing facilities which shall include the

requirement that facilities doing urine analysis tests be certified

for forensic urine drug testing pursuant to guidelines or

regulations of the federal Department of Health and Human Services

or be accredited for forensic urine drug testing by the College of

American Pathologists or other organizations recognized by the State

Board of Health;

2. Qualifications of testing facility personnel; and

3. Procedures for the testing facility to provide the necessary

documentation of testing procedures and test results to the employer

requesting testing services as may be required by a court or

administrative proceeding.

B. Nothing in the Standards for Workplace Drug and Alcohol

Testing Act shall be construed as prohibiting an employer from

adopting a policy which allows for testing for drugs or alcohol by

another method which is reasonably calculated to detect the presence

of drugs or alcohol, including, but not limited to, breathalyzer

testing, testing by use of a single-use test device, known as an onsite or quick testing device, to collect, handle, store and ship a

sample collected for testing.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 355, § 7, emerg. eff. June 10, 1993. Amended

by Laws 2006, c. 277, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2011, c. 180, §

6, eff. Nov. 1, 2011; Laws 2012, c. 196, § 19, emerg. eff. May 8,

2012.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor