Drug Testing Failure Rate for ‘Safety-Sensitive’ Workers Soars
StartFragment The percentage of U.S. workers in “safety-sensitive” jobs — a category that includes truck drivers — who flunked their federally-mandated drug tests increased at an “alarming” rate from 2015 to 2016, according to an analysis of drug testing data collected by the nation’s largest lab. Overall, the percentage of safety-sensitive workers who failed crept up year-over-year, the report said. The positive test rates for all U.S. workers drug tested by Quest Diagnostic
