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concludes that an employee may be adversely affected or impaired in his/her work performance due to possible prohibited substance abuse or alcohol misuse. 6.4 Post-Accident Testing Ail safety-sensitiVe employees will be required to undergo urine and breath testing if they are involved in an accident with Cabarrus County Transit vehicle (regardless of whether or not the vehicle is in revenue service) that results in a fatality. This includes all surviving safety-sensitive employees that are operating the vehicle and any other whose performance could have contributed to the accident. In addition, a post-accident test will be conducted if an accident results in injuries requiring immediate transportation to a medical treatment facility; or one or more vehicles incurs disabling damage; unless the employee can be completely discounted as a contributing factor to the accident. The accident definition may include some incidents where an individual is injured even though there is no vehicle collision. Following an accident, the safety-sensitive employees will be tested as soon as possible, but not to exceed eight hours for alcohol testing and 32 hours for drug testing. Any safety-sensitive employee involved in an accident must refrain from alcohol use for eight hours following the accident or until he/she undergoes a post-accident alcohol test. Any safety-sensitive employee who leaves the scene of the accident without justifiable explanation prior to submission to drug and alcohol testing will be considered to have refused the test and their employment terminated. Employees tested under this provision will include not only the operations personnel but, any other covered employee whose performance could have contributed to the accident. 6.5 Random Testing Employees in safety-sensitive positions will be subjected to random, unannounced testing. The selection of safety-sensitive employee~ for random alcohol testing will be made using a scientifically valid method that ensures~ each covered employee that they will have an equal chance of being selected each time selections are made. The random tests will be unannounced and spread throughout the year. Tests can be conducted at any time during an employee's shift (i.e. beginning, middle, and end). Employees are required to proceed immediately to the collection site upon notification of their random selection. 6.6 Return-To-Duty Testing All safety-sensitive and non-safety sensitive employees who previously tested positive on a drug or alcohol test must test negative (below 0.02 for alcohol) on a 9