Get Back To Pipeline Safety Sensitive Work
A DOT drug or alcohol violation can remove you from PHMSA covered safety sensitive duties, including work involving pipeline operations, maintenance, emergency response, and other regulated functions. Reset Road connects you with a DOT qualified Substance Abuse Professional for a confidential evaluation and guides you through the required return to duty process.
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Every Week Away From Covered Work Can Mean Lost Income
A DOT drug or alcohol violation can remove you from PHMSA regulated safety sensitive duties. That can affect your ability to perform covered pipeline work and may keep you from earning your normal income while the return to duty process remains incomplete.
Here is what that delay can mean.
Your Pipeline Duties Are On Hold
You cannot perform covered safety sensitive functions until you complete the required SAP and return to duty steps. That may include pipeline operations, maintenance, emergency response, and other PHMSA regulated duties.
Your Return To Duty Timeline Matters
The longer you wait to begin the SAP process, the longer you may remain unable to perform covered work. Starting promptly gives you a defined path through evaluation, recommendations, follow up, and return to duty testing.
Changing Employers Does Not Erase The Violation
Moving to another pipeline operator or DOT regulated employer does not make an unresolved violation disappear. Required drug and alcohol testing records can continue to affect your eligibility for safety sensitive work.
Pressure Builds While You Are Out Of Work
Lost income, uncertainty, and pressure to return can make the process harder to manage. A DOT qualified SAP gives you clear requirements and a structured path toward becoming eligible to resume covered duties.
The Employees Who Get Back To Covered Work Are The Ones Who Complete The Required Process
The Five Steps Back To PHMSA Covered Work
Reset Road guides you through steps 1 through 3. Your employer handles the required return to duty and follow up testing once your SAP determines you are ready to proceed.
Initial evaluation
You meet your SAP in-person or over video. It runs about 60. Your SAP asks about your history, your test, and your circumstances, then determines what education or treatment you need.
Treatment or education
Complete the education, counseling, treatment, or other services recommended by your SAP. The requirements are based on your individual evaluation.
SAP follow-up evaluation
Meet with your SAP again after completing the recommendations. Your SAP determines whether you have successfully complied and establishes your follow up testing plan.
Return-to-duty test
Your PHMSA regulated employer arranges the required return to duty test. You must receive the required result before resuming covered safety sensitive pipeline duties.
Follow-up testing schedule
Your SAP prescribes at least six unannounced tests in your first 12 months back on the job, and can extend the schedule up to five years total. Your employer runs those tests and reports completion.
When Pipeline Work Becomes a PHMSA Covered Function
PHMSA drug and alcohol requirements work differently from regulations that can be associated with a particular license or occupation. In the pipeline industry, the work an employee actually performs is especially important. Under 49 CFR Part 199, covered functions generally involve operations, maintenance, or emergency response activities regulated under federal pipeline safety rules and performed on a regulated pipeline or LNG facility. This means two people working for the same pipeline company may have different DOT drug and alcohol requirements based on their actual responsibilities.
PHMSA regulated work can involve natural gas pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, hazardous liquid pipelines, and carbon dioxide pipelines. The regulations can also reach beyond employees who work directly for the pipeline operator. Contractors and employees of contractors may be covered when they perform qualifying operations, maintenance, or emergency response functions. Simply working at a pipeline company, however, does not automatically make every position subject to PHMSA drug and alcohol testing.
The distinction becomes particularly important when determining whether a drug or alcohol test is a DOT test requiring the federal SAP process. A maintenance activity performed directly on regulated pipeline equipment may qualify as a covered function, while other work performed for the same company may not. PHMSA has issued interpretations examining specific duties because job titles alone do not always answer the coverage question. For an employee facing a reported DOT violation, understanding whether the work was performed under PHMSA authority can therefore be an important part of understanding what happens next.
When a PHMSA covered employee has a DOT drug or alcohol violation requiring the return to duty process, a DOT qualified Substance Abuse Professional conducts an individual evaluation and determines the appropriate education or treatment recommendations. After the employee completes those recommendations, the SAP conducts a follow up evaluation to determine successful compliance. If the employer decides to return the employee to a covered function, the employee must also satisfy the applicable return to duty testing requirements before resuming that work.
Returning to pipeline work can be especially important when an employees responsibilities include maintaining equipment, responding to an emergency, or performing operational tasks that directly affect pipeline safety. Completion of the SAP process does not replace an operators responsibility to determine whether the employee satisfies other qualification, training, medical, or company requirements associated with the position. The SAP addresses the DOT drug and alcohol return to duty requirements, while the pipeline operator remains responsible for compliance with the PHMSA requirements governing its operation.
Reset Road provides virtual DOT SAP evaluations for PHMSA regulated employees and covered contractors. Our role is to complete the SAP portion of the return to duty process, including the initial evaluation, individualized recommendations, and required follow up evaluation. We also help employees understand the distinction between completing their SAP requirements and receiving authorization from their employer to resume covered pipeline functions.
Why PHMSA Regulated Employees Choose Reset Road
available when and where you are.
Complete your SAP evaluation in-person or by secure video from a private location. No office visit is required. All you need is a phone, tablet, or computer with a reliable internet connection.
$450, Transparent Pricing
Your 450 dollar fee covers the initial SAP evaluation and follow up evaluation. You know the cost before you begin, with no additional fee for the required follow up evaluation.
Start The Process Without Waiting
Your covered pipeline duties may be on hold, but the SAP process does not have to be. Optional virtual evaluations let you begin promptly without waiting for an in-person appointment.
We file fast, because your clock is running
Delays in the SAP process can mean more time away from PHMSA regulated safety sensitive work. We complete required SAP documentation promptly so you can move forward after each required step.
We Understand Pipeline Work
We work with PHMSA regulated employees involved in pipeline operations, maintenance, emergency response, and other covered safety sensitive functions. You will not have to spend your evaluation explaining the nature of your work.
You pick your SAP
Your DOT qualified SAP evaluates your situation, determines the required education or treatment, conducts the follow up evaluation, and establishes your follow up testing plan.
Nothing changes until you make the first call
The evaluation takes about 60 minutes. Most Pipeline professionals working with Reset Road finish the return-to-duty process in under a week. Every week you wait is a week of missed income. Start the evaluation online, or pick up the phone and talk to a real SAP today.
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