Laserfiche WebLink
3.Background <br />Safety, The DOT requires transportation employers to develop and implement drug and alcohol testing programs <br />n the interest of public safety. Safety is the highest priority for DOT. One of the means by which the DOT helps <br />ensure safety is by subjecting those workers responsible for transportation safety to drug and alcohol testing. <br />Workers tested under the DOT program have a direct impact on the safety of the traveling public or the safety of <br />chose potentially affected by the transportation of hazardous products, such as natural gas, liquefied natural gas <br />(LNG) and hazardous liquids. <br />Test Procedures. The overall responsibility for management and coordination of the DOT program resides <br />within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation's (OST), Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance <br />(ODAPC). ODAPC issues Part 40, Whether the transportation employee is a pipeline worker, truck driver, or airline <br />pilot, their drug and alcohol tests are conducted using the same Part 40 procedures. This consistency benefits all <br />employees affected by DOT regulations in each agency's regulations must adhere to DOT's testing procedures. <br />Better known simply as "Part 40", this rule has become the standard for workplace testing in the United States. <br />Compliance Enforcement. Regulation and enforcement within the different transportation industries is the <br />responsibility of the DOT agency that has authority over the particular industry. The regulatory authority requiring <br />drug and alcohol testing of safety -sensitive employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, and mass transit industries is <br />the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991' (OTETA). The OTETA did not specifically address the <br />pipeline industry. PHMSA has regulatory authority over the pipeline industry and conveyed their authority, for <br />drug and alcohol testing, through the issuance of their regulation - Part 199, Part 199 spells out who is subject <br />to testing, when and in what situations. Operators, and in turn, 'their associated contractors, implement the <br />regulations. <br />IL GENERAL <br />1. Scope <br />Operators of pipeline facilities subject to 49 CFR Parts 1926, 193', or 1958 are required to test covered employees <br />for the presence of prohibited drugs and alcohol. Contractors doing similar work on the behalf of their operators <br />are subject to the same requirements. Part 199 requires of each operator the assurance that any contractor <br />performing any DOT covered safety -sensitive work' that operator, under Parts 192, 193, or 195, is in full <br />compliance with the provisions of the DOT's drug and alcohol program, as applicable. <br />2. Applicability <br />Part 199, and the provisions of the Plan, applies to operators and contractors only with respect to their employees <br />located within the territory of the United States, including those employees located within the limits of the "Outer <br />Continental Shelf', Part 199 and the provisions of the Plan do not apply to covered functions performed on <br />master meter systems or pipeline systems that transport only petroleum gas or petroleum gas/air mixtures. <br />s Public Law 102.1rt3, October 28, 1991, Title V —Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing, 105 Stat. 952-9G5; 49 U.S.C. 45104(2). <br />Part 192 — Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline: Mininuuu Federal Safety Stnndnrds <br />Part 193— Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities: Federal Safety Standards <br />a Part 195— Transportation of Hazardous Liquids by Pipeline <br />Premium Concrete Services, Inc.- PHMSA DRUG/ALCOHOL PLAN <br />;i) NATIONAL COMF'LlAilf.[ Mr1NA(iCtvl[NT Sr:RVICF.. ING. (NCMS) 201 I (uptlele 2021). the N(;MS pia„ is <br />the s,rbie�.f of x reaistefed c"py,'Iah! arld is prolede0 by ec,VYa9hl Iavrs In the U 5. enA alse,vhere_ All rl9hls <br />oseweo <br />