{"id":51092,"date":"2016-05-12T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?p=51092"},"modified":"2022-12-01T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:43:04","slug":"dot-blind-specimens-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/dot-blind-specimens-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT Blind Specimens Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We get many questions about the DOT requirement<\/strong><\/a> for Blind Specimens as required in 49 CFR Part 40.103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an employer if you fewer than 2000 DOT-covered employees, you are not required to provide blind specimens. So no need to worry about this if you have less than 2000 DOT-covered employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an employer or Consortium\/Third Party Administrator (C\/TPA) with an aggregate of 2000 or more DOT-covered employees<\/strong><\/a>, you must send blind specimens to laboratories you use. TPA\u2019s as they grow need to watch their numbers so that they can stay in compliance when they reach the 2000 or more DOT-covered employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help make it easy for an employer to comply with the DOT Blind Specimen requirements, we recommend the services of PROTOX<\/a> or Professional Toxicology Services<\/a> Cathy Mansfield at (913) 599-3535, cathy@protoxservices.com<\/a>. PROTOX has a turnkey program that you will find to make the process very simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An employer or consortium manager must have more than 2000 covered employees in order to be required to submit blind specimens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To each laboratory to which you send at least 100 specimens in a year, you must transmit a number of blind specimens equivalent to one percent of the specimens you send to that laboratory, up to a maximum of 50 blind specimens each quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of blinds you need to send to any laboratory is capped at 50 per quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n