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Appendix B employees' abilities to perform their duties. The City has contracted with an outside vendor to perform the periodic selection of employees for inclusion in the random testing pools The contractor selects employees at random for drug testing at any time during each calendar year The City will provide employee identification numbers to be used in the random selection drawings. The contractor will, in turn, furnish the City with a list of individuals to be tested at the beginning of each selection period. It shall be the responsibility of the City to notify each employee who was selected with the date, time and location that random testing will be performed. When notified, it shall be the responsibility of the individual employee to provide a urine specimen for drug testing. An employee's failure to comply with the request for a specimen for random testing may result in termination of employment. E. Follow -up testing after return to duty from assessment or treatment We conduct this test of employees who previously tested positive but whose employment we did not terminate. We require a negative return -to -duty test before we allow the employee to return to woi k. if the employee fails this test, this may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Once an employee tests negative and returns to duty, management will ensure additional tests occur. Any employee with a second positive test result will be disciplined, up to and including termination. Follow -tip tests will be unannounced. They may occur at any time for a time per iod management considers reasonable. The intent is to deter any subsequent use that would violate the City's policy and result in termination of employment. III, Substances to be tested for and methods of testing Systems presence testing is the procedure used. This is how qualified testing professionals identify the presence of one or more of pr ohibited controlled substances or alcohol that may be present in the employee. If the initial screening test proves negative, then a negative test is declared. The qualified testing professional does a second test, called a confirmatory test, only if the initial test is non - negative. This means the results came in at or higher than the cut -off level for one or more drugs There is also a confirmatory test for alcohol when the preliminary test is at or above the specified cut -off level. Expetls and the courts consider the confirmatory test 100 percent accurate. Scientific experts identified standard cut -off levels for each of the tested drugs after years of research. And employers have used these successfully for decades for both federal testing and non- regulated workplace testing. Professionals use these levels to interpret all drug screens /tests, including the drugs for which testing may occu i under our drug -free policy We reserve the right to add or delete substances on the list above, especially if mandated by changes in existing federal, state or local regulations or laws. For alcohol testing, a medical clinic that uses only certified equipment and personnel will conduct testing We will consider breath alcohol concentrations exceeding 0.02 BAC a verified positive result. In the event of an accident where an employee has blood alcohol drawn at a medical treatment facility, we will consider a result equal to or greater than 0.04 BAC a verified positive result. The collection site will typically use an Evidentiary Breath Test (EBT) to confirm any initial positive test result performed through saliva or breath testing. We may terminate employees adulterating, attempting to adulterate or substituting a specimen or otherwise manipulating the testing process. We will consider refusal to produce /provide a specimen a positive test unless there's a verifiable medical reason. IV. Specimen collection procedure Trained collection personnel who meet standards for urine collection and breath alcohol testing will conduct testing. We require confidentiality from our collection sites and labs. We permit employees to provide urine specimens in private, but subject to strict scrutiny by collection personnel This avoids any alteration or substitution of the specimen. Likewise, the collection site will conduct breath alcohol testing in an area that affords the individual privacy, hi all cases, there will be one individual tested at a time