Why is SAPAA DER training critical to your organization?
As the DER in your organization, you and the Alternative DER have tremendous responsibility under the Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations to ensure that all aspects of your employer’s mandatory drug and alcohol testing program are properly administered inaccordance with extensive and complex DOT regulations. While you may hire Service Agents(MROs, collectors, SAPs, TPAs, etc.) to assist you, by DOT regulation your employer is ultimately responsible for meeting all applicable requirements and procedures. Additionally, your employer is by regulation responsible for all actions of Service Agents you may hire and is subject to DOT sanctions for their non-compliance. (See 49 CFR Part 40.15(c)). Those include fines of up to $10,000 per violation. (See 49 U.S.C. 521(b)(2)(A)).
To help you better understand your regulatory responsibilities, to enable you to confidently respond to employee questions, interact intelligently with your collectors, MROs, SAPs, TPAs, and to avoid the governmental sanctions, SAPAA (Substance Abuse Program Administrators Association) has retained me, as the legal content provider of part40.com, LLC, to develop a DER training and certification course under 49 CFR Part 40 (“Part 40") and the DOT Agency-specific regulations 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 in the drug and alcohol testing industry. See the SAPAA website www.sapaa.com for information on benefits of becoming a SAPAA member and other training course offer via web and live.
Cost is $195 Plus shipping & handling for standard test with one DOT mode ($50 for additional DOT modes)
What does this SAPAA DER training/certification course consist of?
The program is a combination print and web based course comprised of the following four(4) parts:
- 5 worksheets with numbered answer boxes for Part 40, and individual worksheet(s)for the DOT Agency you have chosen to be certified under.
- 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 (html file) CD-Rom (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. This is your research guide to the correct answers to the worksheetblank question boxes. You may purchase a one year subscription to SAPAA’s Part40 Made E-Z so your disk is keep updated. See www.sapaa.com
- Once you have selected answers for all of the worksheets, you will then log into theSAPAA 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 atwww.sapaa.com to obtain your certification. You must score at least 90% orbetter to obtain your SAPAA DER certification, both under Part 40 and the DOT Agency of your choice. You will receive electronic confirmation of your exam status and a Printed Certificate to follow by mail.
What is the secret of doing well on the exam?
Read the regulations referred to in the questions. There is no shortcut, and even 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). 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.
It will literally take you 15 seconds to find the answers to most of your questions using Part40 Made E-Z. This DER 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 that govern 99% of what you will be doing in regulated drug and alcohol testing.
How much time should the course take?
Allocate at least 6 hours total to complete the paper part of the course. 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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