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POST -ACCIDENT / INCIDENT TESTING <br />An employer may require an employee to submit to a post - <br />accident drug and alcohol test after the involvement in, or cause <br />of an accident/incident, that causes injury to the employee or <br />another party. The employer may also require an employee to <br />submit to a post -accident drug and alcohol test when the <br />employee is involved in, or causes an accident, which results in <br />damage or destruction to property. Post -accident drug and <br />alcohol testing must be completed within two (2) hours of the <br />recorded accident/incident if a BCRC testing facility is located on <br />the job site or within four (4) hours of the recorded <br />accident/incident if an employee is required to go off the job site <br />to a BCRC testing facility. Any employee suspected of <br />unnecessarily delaying the test process will be considered to have <br />refused to submit to testing. <br />In instances of post-accident/incident or probable cause testing for <br />drugs and alcohol, the employee will be transported to the testing <br />facility by the employer. At the option of the employer, the <br />employee may be suspended pending the test result. In the event <br />a negative test result is reported, the employee shall be <br />compensated for all lost time at the appropriate rate within the <br />collective bargaining agreement, straight or premium pay. ; <br />When an employee is injured in a qualifying accident, priority <br />must be given to the employee's medical treatment before any <br />consideration is given to collecting a specimen for testing. <br />Such employees may request that a union. representative be <br />available or present prior to any action taken by an employer, if <br />any, at any stage of the policy and its administration. If an <br />employee is aggrieved by any action taken under this Drug and <br />Alcohol Policy and his/her complaint cannot be resolved, the <br />complaint may, if the employee or Union requests, be referred as <br />grievance under the grievance and arbitration provisions of the <br />employee's collective bargaining agreement. In the event the <br />matter is referred to arbitration, the arbitrator shall be bound <br />17 <br />