HI Any advice would be appreciated. We had a visit today from an ex-site employee’s father claiming that a number of our site guys are drug addicts. Although these claims cannot be proved and are currently just hearsay from an individual who is not or has not been employed by us at any time. I am not aware of any drug use on our sites and have never had any such claims brought to me before. Anyway, our chairman has requested that we investigate the claims. Question.. Can anybody point me in a direction where I can find out about the legalities of random drug and alcohol testing. Also if anybody can point me towards any other documentation, I would be most grateful.

HI David. Can this be done legally and if so is there any documented legislation or paperwork I can refer to. Obviously this is a serious allegation and I want to do it by the book with written acops or similar to ensure its done correctly.

Policy or no policy, I recall that the employees contract has to include the ability of the employer to undertake testing, random or otherwise, unless the law allows such testing (certain industries such as rail, air and sea transport).