Drug Test/Screening Collector Training & Certification, Tanque Verde, AZ
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Collection Sites, Medical Facilities, DER's, HR Managers, Safety Managers, Court Personnel, Probation Officers, TPA's
Accredited Drug Testing provides a comprehensive online/web-based Urine Drug Testing Collector Training and Certification course in Tanque Verde, AZ for persons required as part of their responsibilities to perform or supervise urine drug testing specimen collections. The collector training program may be completed with or without the required mock collection proficiency assessments. Upon completion of the training program, students will receive a certificate of successful completion of the training course. In Tanque Verde, AZ to be qualified/certified as a DOT urine drug test collector, you must satisfactorily complete both the training course and a minimum of 5 error free proficiency mock demonstrations.
The Drug Test Collector plays a critical role in the workplace drug screening process. Along with the employer, the testing facility and the Medical Review Officer (MRO), the collector is an essential part of a system developed to ensure drug-free workplaces for the sake of public safety.
As the collector, you are the only individual in the drug-testing process who has direct, face-to-face contact with the employee. You ensure the integrity of the urine specimen and collection process and begin the chain of custody that includes the laboratory; the MRO; the employer; and, possibly, the courts.
This training is a professional-level course that provides the knowledge and skills to qualify Drug Test Collectors to perform U.S. Department of Transportation-regulated drug tests and non-regulated tests. Course participants also have the option of becoming professionally certified after completion of this course. This designation confirms that the collector is committed to the highest standards in the drug and alcohol testing industry.
The Course
This professional-level course meets the regulatory standards of U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rule 49 CFR Part 40 and provides a solid foundation for a wide range of testing programs.
- Library of terms & resources
- Universal skills set
- Multiple industries
- Lessons
- DOT Qualification
- Public sector
- Short quizzes & final examination
- Professional Certification
- Private sector
- Mock collections
- Regulated by local, state and federal authorities
- Signature
How to become a DOT Qualified Urine Colletor?
To become qualified as a collector, you must be knowledgeable about Part 40 regulations, the current "DOT Urine Specimen Collection Procedures Guidelines," and DOT agency regulations applicable to the employers for whom you will perform collections, and you must keep current on any changes to these materials. You must also (1) successfully complete a qualification training program and (2) pass a monitored proficiency demonstration, as required by DOT regulations [See 49 CFR Part 40.33 (b-c), effective August 1, 2001]. Please note: there is no "grandfather" clause or waiver from this requirement. A collector's qualifications are not location/collection site specific, and their eligibility will follow them anywhere DOT Agency regulated urine specimens are collected. There is no requirement for qualified collectors to register or to be on any federally-maintained or federally-sponsored list, but they are required to maintain (for Federal inspection) documentation of successful completion of their training and proficiency demonstration requirements.
How to Take the Course
The Drug Test Collector Training involves multiple parts that need to be completed in a specific order to achieve certification.
- Before starting the training, the collector must:
- review 49 CFR Part 40 and be familiar with the regulatory language;
- review the DOT Urine Specimen Collection Guidelines;
- review "Instructions for Completing the Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form for Urine Specimen Collection"
- watch DOT's 10 Steps to Collection Site Security and Integrity video.
- and download the sample Custody and Control Form. This form guides the entire drug-collection process. Review the document and have it at hand through the entire course. (All required materials are also available in the Reference Library.) NOTE: The 2017 version of the CCF is no longer current. If you intend to use it, you must attach a Memorandum for Record (MFR).
- Take the course Pre-Test to show familiarity with the subject matter based on a review of the materials provided.
- Complete the lessons of the training along with the required short quizzes.
- Take the final exam. A score of at least 90 percent is required.
- When you pass the online portion of this training, continue to the Next Steps lesson for instructions on how to set up five mock collections with a live examiner. These must be scheduled within 30 days of course completion and are required for qualification and certification.
- Once the mock collections are completed without error, you will be qualified and can perform both federally regulated and non-regulated drug test collections.
- To be certified, qualified collectors are asked to sign an agreement promising to adhere to the standards set in the training. The course administrator will then issue a certification form documenting that the collector is both a USDOT Qualified and Professionally Certified Drug Testing Collector. Contact the course administrator for more information.
Additional Courses Available
- DOT Alcohol Screening Test Technician Training
- Saliva/Oral Fluid Training & Certification
- Certified Drug Test Collector Annual Exam
- DOT Breath Alcohol Technician Training
- Hair Specimen Collector Training & Certification
- DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training Course
- DER Training FMCSA
- DER Training FAA
- DER Training PHMSA
- DER Training FRA
- DER Training FTA
- DER Training USCG
- MRO Assistant Training
- New Business Start Up Overview
** Accredited Drug Testing's Urine Specimen Collector training course is developed in conjunction with the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association.
Drug and Alcohol Testing Locations Tanque Verde, AZ
9175 E TANQUE VERDE RD STE 187 3.5 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85749
9525 E OLD SPANISH TRL STE 101 4.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85748
7187 E TANQUE VERDE RD 5.9 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85715
7119 E BROADWAY BLVD 6.4 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85710
310 N WILMOT RD STE 209 7.1 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85711
6238 E PIMA ST 7.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85712
1011 N CRAYCROFT RD STE 201 8.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85711
5594 E 22ND ST 8.5 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85711
888 S CRAYCROFT RD STE 150 8.6 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85711
1400 N WILMOT RD STE 110 8.7 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85712
350 N WILMOT RD 8.9 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85711
2460 N SWAN RD STE 140 9.1 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85712
3102 E BELLEVUE ST 11.1 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85716
3360 S PALO VERDE RD 11.5 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85713
3681 S PALO VERDE RD 11.6 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85713
2510 E BROADWAY BLVD 11.7 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85716
2800 E AJO WAY 12.5 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85713
501 N Park Ave Ste 110 12.9 miles
Tucson, AZ 85719
698 E WETMORE, STE 350 13.3 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85718
1001 E PALMDALE ST 13.8 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85714
4600 S PARK AVE STE 5 14.0 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85714
4280 N ORACLE RD STE 100 14.3 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85705
904 W GRANT RD 14.6 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85705
1324 W PRINCE RD 15.0 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85705
7725 N ORACLE RD STE 131 15.4 miles
ORO VALLEY, AZ 85704
1657 W GRANT RD 15.4 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85745
1661 W GRANT RD 15.4 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85745
1601 W SAINT MARYS RD 15.5 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85745
5369 S Calle Santa Cruz Ste 145 16.1 miles
Tucson, AZ 85706
2005 W RUTHRAUFF RD STE 111 16.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85705
1925 W ORANGE GROVE RD STE 204 16.6 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85704
1400 W VALENCIA RD STE 101 17.1 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85746
7482 N LA CHOLLA BLVD 17.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85741
13101 N ORACLE RD 17.4 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85739
5445 N SHANNON RD 17.4 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85705
1895 W VALENCIA RD 17.8 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85746
2945 W INA RD STE 103 18.1 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85741
7850 N SILVERBELL RD STE 132 22.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85743
8333 N SILVERBELL RD 23.2 miles
TUCSON, AZ 85743
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Local Area Info: Tanque Verde, Arizona
Tanque Verde began as a small community, remote from Tucson, and settled by ranchers arriving to the American West around the 1860s. The name of the area, which means "green tank," is a reference to the algae in a large and prominent stock water tank in the area in the late 19th century.
The Tanque Verde Valley was used by the Apache, a Native American tribe throughout the 19th century. Soldiers from Fort Lowell operated by the U.S. Army in the late 19th century also frequented the Tanque Verde Valley.
The army closed Fort Lowell in 1891, and when some Hispanic immigrants from Baja California and Sonora saw the fort's buildings standing empty, they moved into the abandoned adobes. Soon they began farming the rich floodplain northeast of the fort, where Pantano Wash feeds into Tanque Verde Creek to form the Rillito (Little River), and by the turn of the century the community they came to call El Fuerte was thriving. Upstream from El Fuerte, in the canyons and nooks (rincons) of the front range of the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Rincon range—the area they came to call Tanque Verde—Hispanic families with names like Escalante, Estrada, Andrade, Vindiola, Lopez, Riesgo, Benitez, Telles, Martinez, and Gallegos began establishing homes and ranches. Initially the largely self-sufficient community of homesteads thrived, but over time many of the smaller ranches were swallowed up by larger ones or sold to speculators. According to Frank Escalante, a descendant of Tanque Verde homesteaders, some non-Hispanic Americans robbed some of these families of their land titles and ranches by fraud or force. Some Hispanics who became Mexican Americans after the Gadsden Purchase had limited understanding of English and a naivete regarding American property law even four decades after the transition, and made easy marks for the unscrupulous. The infamous Arizona Rangers sometimes enforced interlopers' property claims. The First World War brought a rise in the market for cotton and the value of farmland, and still more of the original homesteaders felt pressured to sell. Ultimately the growth of Tucson and the demand for land for housing priced most of the remaining pioneers off their ranches.