[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR40.63]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation

 

PART 40_PROCEDURES FOR TRANSPORTATION WORKPLACE DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING 

PROGRAMS--Table of Contents

 

                  Subpart E_Urine Specimen Collections

 

Sec. 40.63  What steps does the collector take in the collection process 

before the employee provides a urine specimen?



    As the collector, you must take the following steps before the 

employee provides the urine specimen:

    (a) Complete Step 1 of the CCF.

    (b) Instruct the employee to wash and dry his or her hands at this 

time. You must tell the employee not to wash his or her hands again 

until after delivering the specimen to you. You must not give the 

employee any further access to water or other materials that could be 

used to adulterate or dilute a specimen.

    (c) Select, or allow the employee to select, an individually wrapped 

or sealed collection container from collection kit materials. Either you 

or the employee, with both of you present, must unwrap or break the seal 

of the collection container. You must not unwrap or break the seal on 

any specimen bottle at this time. You must not allow the employee to 

take anything from the collection kit into the room used for urination 

except the collection container.

    (d) Direct the employee to go into the room used for urination, 

provide a specimen of at least 45 mL, not flush the toilet, and return 

to you with the specimen as soon as the employee has completed the void.

    (1) Except in the case of an observed or a monitored collection (see 

Sec. Sec. 40.67 and 40.69 ), neither you nor anyone else may go into 

the room with the employee.

    (2) As the collector, you may set a reasonable time limit for 

voiding.

    (e) You must pay careful attention to the employee during the entire 

collection process to note any conduct that clearly indicates an attempt 

to tamper with a specimen (e.g., substitute urine in plain view or an 

attempt to bring into the collection site an adulterant or urine 

substitute). If you detect such conduct, you must require that a 

collection take place immediately under direct observation (see Sec. 

40.67 ) and note the conduct and the fact that the collection was 

observed in the ``Remarks'' line of the CCF (Step 2). You must also, as 

soon as possible, inform the DER and collection site supervisor that a 

collection took place under direct observation and the reason for doing 

so.