The DOT requires that all trucking companies with two or more drivers have at least one
supervisor complete a two-hour course on reasonable suspicion of drug and alcohol use in the workplace. Progressive Reporting Agency has an online interactive DOT drug and alcohol supervisor training course that meets this requirement and is simple and easy to use. This is part of our goal to help managers fight workplace substance abuse.
Overview of Course Content
- Introductory overview and concepts
- Personal problems versus drug/alcohol
- Addictive disease and enabling
- Common supervisor myths
- Rationale for reasonable suspicion training
- Major drug categories and types
- Understanding alcoholism
- All about beverage alcohol
- Understanding denial
- Excuses employees use when confronted
- Understanding tolerance and impact
- Cross tolerance and cross addiction
- Loss of control: what it really means
- Understanding denial
- Drug photos, categories, symptoms, etc.
- Performance signs and symptoms
- What to measure with job performance
- Avoiding armchair diagnosis
- Enabling: coworkers, supervisors, others
- Work performance curve for drug users
- Drugs of abuse chart
- Confronting behavior: three ways
- Follow-up with employees
A certificate of completion is issued with this Drug and Alcohol Online Training.
This course meets the DOT 2-hour Compliance for Alcohol and Drug Education. This program
may also be used for non-DOT Drug and Alcohol Training with Supervisors. Call (866) 736-6507 with any additional questions or to register for the course.
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