Code: GBEC-AR(2)
Adopted: 11/24/08
Drug-Free Workplace "Reasonable Cause" Determination
In School Board Policy GBEC – Drug-Free Workplace, "reasonable cause" has been defined to assist administrators and supervisors in determining whether an employee’s performance may be subject to a fitness for duty referral. "Reasonable cause" may exist in these circumstances:
An on-the-job accident or occurrence where there is evidence to indicate the accident or occurrence was in whole or in part the result of the employee’s actions or inactions and/or the employee exhibited behavior, or in other ways demonstrated, that they may have been using drugs or alcohol or been under the influence of drugs or alcohol;
An on-the-job incident, such as but not exclusive to, a medical emergency that is likely to be attributable to drug or alcohol use by the employee;
Direct observation of behavior exhibited by the employee which may render the employee unable to perform his or her duties or which may pose a threat to safety or health;
Information that the employee may be using drugs or alcohol at the workplace or be under the influence of drugs or alcohol and/or exhibit behavior that may render the employee unable to perform his or her duties or may pose a threat to safety or health and employee’s supervisory chain of command;
Physical, on-the-job evidence of drug or alcohol use by the employee; or
A documented pattern of attendance problems over a reasonable period of time that is likely to be attributable to drug or alcohol use.
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Last modified at 5/12/2009 4:13 PM by Cindy Harris
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