Positive drug test - poppy seeds!!! beware!!

SomeRandomGuy wrote: »

What type of job is it that requires drug testing? I find this general creep towards employers sticking their nose into employee's private lives quite concerning. I can't really see the justification for drug testing unless perhaps you are doing a safety critical job like a pilot or surgeon, but even then without reasonable suspicion it hardly seems proportionate.

Also to add to the already posted lists, how about any factory job where machinery is used?

The company I work for drug test all candidates, not only for work heath and safety concerns but also, as we build cars, the safety of the customer doing 70 (ish;) ) down the motorway in their 2 tonne lump of metal.

I believe that we can be randomly drug/alcohol tested but have never known it happen.

It is even stricter for the agency forklift truck drivers, who, if they have even the most minor of incidents are immediately drug and alcohol tested and not allowed back on the trucks until they have had a driving re-test.