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Local company offers fast drug screenings
February 05, 2015 posted by Steve Brownstein
While many companies require pre-employment drug testing, the results often take days to get back.
But a Houma company is getting results in minutes.
Global Safety Training Services, 5437 W. Park Ave., is the only area full-partner with eScreen Drugs of Abuse System, a third-party administrator offering employment screening for drugs and alcohol nationwide.
Using eScreen allows clients to set up an online account and input an applicant’s information.
“That saves a lot of time on paperwork,” said Toney Wade, head of safety instruction and canine handler.
Once the donor deposits his or her urine specimen into a plastic cup, the lid is attached and sealed. The eCup’s lid contains several embedded test strips that are sensitive to different elements.
When the eCup is placed into the eReader device, its test strips are digitally screened for the presence or absence of drugs of abuse and sent online to a medical review officer who makes the results official.
“Within 15 minutes, we know if they’re clean or not,” Wade said.
Typically it takes 72 hours for test results to come back, he said.
Glenda Olmo, project manager at Technical Marine Services in Houma, said her company started using Global’s drug testing services after having problems with other labs.
“They came to our office offering their services. We were having problems taking things to another lab that was taking too long. I don’t waste time with Global. It’s organized and done within 15 minutes,” Olmo said.
Olmo said her company uses the random drug testing and Global’s canine services offshore as well.
The company also offers training for the oilfield, medical field and U.S. Coast Guard. Wade said the business is the only one in the area offering Coast Guard safety training and has been approved to do so since 2011. Course offerings include electrical safety, fire prevention, forklift operations, hearing conservation and respiratory protection.
Global also offers testing for Department of Transportation and other employers, paternity cases, immigration cases and ancestry.
For more information, visit global-safety-training.com
