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621 9. If the employee has been placed on investigatory suspension he /she shall be reinstated in accordance with policy requirements. All records surrounding the ® incident shall be removed from the employee's personnel file. If the test is positive, the Human Resources Director, within 5 days of receiving positive test confirmation, shall inform the employee, in writing, of the results and the proposed action to be taken. 10. Disciplinary actions will result from a confirmed positive test, refusal to participate in a test or of altering or attempting to alter test results. 11. Drug testing will be carried out by a laboratory certified by the U.S. DHHS and testing will be conducted via urine specimens. 12. Alcohol testing will meet industry standards or applicable U.S. DHHS guidelines and will be conducted via a saliva, blood or breath specimen. 13. All specimens will be collected under chain of custody procedures which include photo identification of the donor and protocols to assure specimen integrity. 14. A positive drug (controlled substance) test will undergo confirmatory testing. 15. A positive alcohol test will undergo confirmatory testing by either blood or breath. 16. All test results will be maintained in a secure and confidential manner in the County Human Resources Department and will not be released without written consent of the employee unless as a result of action initiated by or on behalf of the employee, they are required to be produced. Pre - Employment Substance Abuse Screening All job finalists are required to undergo drug /alcohol testing within twenty -four (24) hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays) of receiving and accepting an offer of employment contingent upon a negative drug /alcohol test result. Finalists who fail to undergo such testing within twenty -four (24) hours will not be considered for employment. 1. The Human Resources Department will make arrangements for finalists to be sent to a designated medical facility for testing. 2. Finalists will submit a Lee County approved, signed substance abuse testing consent form to the qualified, approved laboratory provider, assenting to the testing procedure. 3. Finalist testing will be performed on urine specimens using a secure chain of custody procedure to reduce the likelihood of possible errors in the testing procedures. Gas Chromatograph /Mass Spectrometry (GC /MS) or other appropriate, accepted medical testing procedures will be used to confirm all positive test results. ® 5 11 -18 Ding and Alcohol Free Workplace