Why is SAPAA DAITC (Drug and Alcohol Industry Training Course) Training critical to your organization? Absolutely the only
course to hone your knowledge and skills on all drug and alcohol testing
issues. This is THE COURSE for those who either want to expand their
knowledge or want to review before they sit for the coveted C-SAPA
exam. This course is not for beginners!
As the TPA or In-House Administrator of your
organization, you have tremendous responsibility under the Department of
Transportation (DOT) regulations to ensure that all aspects of your clients’
or employer’s mandatory drug and alcohol testing program are properly
administered in accordance with extensive and complex DOT regulations, while checking to see that you do not violate varying state laws and judicial decisions involving employee drug testing. By DOT regulation, your
employer clients are ultimately responsible for meeting all applicable
requirements and procedures, but they look to you as the Drug Testing
Professional to advise and counsel them; a wrong answer can subject them
to fines of up to $10,000 per violation. (See 49 U.S.C. 521(b)(2)(A)) and your Company to liability as well.
To help you better
understand your regulatory and state law responsibilities, to enable you to confidently
respond to client questions, interact intelligently with your superiors, clients,
collectors, MROs, SAPs, and to avoid the governmental sanctions,
SAPAA (Substance Abuse Program
Administrators Association) has retained Tom Eden, with Capell & Howard, P.C., as the legal content provider and to
develop a DAITC training and certification course under 49 CFR Part 40
(“Part 40") and the DOT Agency-specific regulations under FMCSA, FTA, FRA, FAA, PMSHA, USCG and state law, as part of
the family of SAPAA Training Institute courses offered. SAPAA has a long
history of providing quality training and certification programs to
professionals and in-house administrators in the drug and alcohol testing industry.
Cost is $295, plus shipping & handling.
What does this SAPAA DAITC training/certification course consist of?
The program is a combination print and web based course comprised of the following seven (7) parts:
- Part 40 - 5 worksheets with numbered answer boxes
- DOT Agency individual worksheet(s) for FMCSA, FTA, FRA, FAA, PMSHA & USCG.
- State Laws Drug Testing worksheet.
- Following each worksheet is a multiple choice test which corresponds with the worksheet answer boxes. You should use this paper test to circle the correct answer from among the 3 choices for each numbered blank answer box.
- Part 40 Made E-Z CD-Rom (html file) (which you will receive by separate mailing),searchable
with your internet browser, containing completely hyperlinked DOT regulations
under 49 CFR Part 40, and all Federal Agency Drug & Alcohol Testing Regulations and other resources.
This is your research guide to the correct answers to the worksheet blank question boxes.
You may purchase a one year subscription to SAPAA’s Part40 Made E-Z
to keep your disk updated. See www.sapaa.com
- State Drug Testing Laws at a Glance training guide in PDF for the State Laws section of the exam.
- Once you have selected
answers for all of the worksheets, you will then log into the SAPAA
website - http://www.sapaa.com/sapaatraining/index.asp - using your User
Name and Password found on page 1 of this welcome letter and make your
selection from the pull-down of 3 choices. You must complete the test
online at www.sapaa.com to obtain your certification. Caution: You will only have a
limited amount of time to compete your online exam so it is critical
that you have all your answers circled before you log in. You must score at least 90% or
better to obtain your SAPAA DAITC certification. You will receive
electronic confirmation of your exam status and a Printed Certificate will follow by mail.
What is the secret of doing well on the exam?
Read the regulations
and state law guidance referred to in the questions. There is no shortcut,
and drug testing professionals will find the exam challenging if they fail
to heed this advice. The correct answers should be very apparent once you
read the designated Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) or study the State Drug Testing
Laws at a Glance. The DOT went to great
lengths to make the regulations “plain English, easy to read and
understand.” You can navigate the Part 40 Made E-Z CD-Rom in seconds
using your computer’s Internet browser without connecting to the internet.
The State Drug Testing Law at a
Glance in PDF will also be a very user friendly resource.
It will literally take
you 15 seconds to find the answers to most of your questions using Part40
Made E-Z and State Drug Testing Law at a Glance. This training course is
designed not only to teach you much of what you need to know, but also how
to quickly find answers in the future and become proficient with the
regulations and laws that govern 99% of what you will be doing in regulated
and non-regulated drug and alcohol testing.
How much time should the course take?
Allocate at least 20
hours total to complete the paper part of the course and 1 hour for the online exam depending on your keyboard skills.
Do yourself and your employer a great service and read the
entire regulation designated. You will find your time well invested when
you must make a crisis decision.
What if you need help or other resources?
My e-mail address is part40@bellsouth.net. I guided the development of the DER training and certification course, Part40 Made E-Z CD-Rom, with the help of the SAPAA Training Institute. A special thanks to Dennis Kerns and Jim Wright of that organization for their editorial assistance, ideas and inspiration. I, or one of my staff, will try to promptly respond to your inquiries. For more additional contact or resource information see: http://www.capellhoward.com/index.cfm.
Thank you for taking the time to improve your knowledge of this important aspect of your job and to protect your employer from unnecessary DOT sanctions.
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