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*City of Mounds View* DOT Drug -Free Workplace Policy 2020 Version 14 3. The Collector shall require drivers to remove unnecessary outer garments that might conceal items used to tamper with the collection process. The Collector shall also retain personal belongings like briefcases and purses during the collection process. Drivers may keep their wallets and ask for a receipt for any belongings they surrender. The Collector will direct the driver to empty his or her pockets and display the items in them and the driver must allow the Collector to make this observation. 4. Drivers will be given a collection container and allowed to provide a urine specimen in private unless: the laboratory reports a specimen was invalid and the MRO reports there was no adequate medical explanation for the result; the original positive, adulterated, or substituted test result had to be cancelled because the test of the split specimen could not be performed; the laboratory reports a specimen as having a low creatinine concentration (i.e., a creatinine concentration greater than or equal to 2 mg/dL and less than or equal to 5 mg/dL) and the MRO reports the specimen as negative and dilute; the Company directs a return-to-duty test or follow-up test be performed under direct observation; the Collector observes materials brought to the collection site or the driver’s conduct clearly indicates an attempt to tamper with a specimen; the temperature on the original specimen was out-of-range; or the original specimen appeared to have been tampered with. In such circumstances, the DER will be notified and drivers will be requir ed to provide a specimen while being observed. 5. If the driver does not provide a sufficient amount of urine for testing (at least 45 ml), the Collector will discard the specimen, tell the driver to drink additional fluids, wait up to three (3) hours and try again to provide a specimen. If the driver refuses to drink those fluids or provide another specimen, the Collector shall notify the Company’s DER of the driver’s refusal to cooperate. If the driver cooperates, but still does not provide an adequate specimen, testing will stop and the driver will be sent to a doctor acceptable to the Company’s MRO within five working days for an evaluation. If that doctor states in writing to the Company’s MRO that it is highly probable that a medical condition prevented the driver from providing an adequate specimen, the driver will not be disciplined on grounds of refusing to provide a specimen. 6. If the driver provides a sufficient amount of urine for testing, it will be inspected by the Collector and its temperature will be measured. If there is a reason to believe an altered or substituted specimen has been provided, the DER will be notified and a second, observed specimen will be collected. Collected specimens will be poured into two containers (i.e. a split-specimen collection). The collector will seal the bottles by placing the tamper -evident bottle seals over the bottle caps/lids. The collector will date the seals and instruct the donor to initial the tamper- evident bottle seals for the purpose of certifying the bottles contain the specimens he or she provided. 7. Both specimen containers will be sent to a federally certified laboratory designated by the Company. The lab will review the CCF and check the specimens for apparent tampering. Any apparent tampering or CCF problems will be reported to the DER. 8. If the specimens appear to be in order, the lab will run an initial screening test on the primary specimen. If the screening test is negative, the lab will report the result as negative and the driver has passed the drug test. If the screening test is positive, the lab will conduct a confirmation test and analyze the specimen using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS). The laboratory will send the test results to the Company’s Medical Review Officer (MRO). 9. The MRO is a trained doctor the Company has retained to review test results and to evaluate any explanation a driver may have for a positive, adulterated, substituted (because of a creatinine concentration of less than 2 mg/dL), or invalid drug test result. The MRO will