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Get Back To Maritime Safety Sensitive Work

A DOT drug or alcohol violation can remove you from Coast Guard regulated safety sensitive duties. Reset Road connects you with a DOT qualified Substance Abuse Professional for a confidential virtual evaluation and guides you through the required return to duty process.

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Every Week Away From Covered Maritime Work Can Mean Lost Income

A drug or alcohol violation can remove you from Coast Guard regulated safety sensitive duties. That can affect your ability to serve aboard a vessel 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 Maritime 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 vessel operation, navigation, engineering, maintenance, and other regulated maritime duties.

Your Credentials And Work Eligibility Matter

A drug or alcohol violation can affect your ability to perform Coast Guard regulated work. Completing the required SAP process is an important step toward restoring eligibility for covered maritime duties.

Changing Employers Does Not Erase The Violation

Moving to another vessel operator or maritime 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 return to duty.

The Mariners Who Return To Covered Work Are The Ones Who Complete The Required Process

The Five Steps Back To Coast Guard Regulated Duty

Reset Road handles steps 1 through 3. Steps 4 and 5 run through your employer, and we tell you exactly what to ask for so nothing stalls.

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Initial evaluation

You meet your SAP 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.

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Treatment or education

Your SAP writes a plan and gives you a list of qualified providers to choose from. Some maritime professionals get an education course they can finish in a week. Others get a treatment program that runs longer.

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SAP follow-up evaluation

When you finish your plan, you meet your SAP again. The SAP verifies you completed what was assigned, determines whether you are compliant, and if you are, sets your follow-up testing schedule.

4
Return-to-duty test

Your Coast Guard regulated employer arranges the required return to duty test. You must receive the required result before resuming covered safety sensitive maritime duties.

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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.

Why Maritime Professionals Choose Reset Road

Fully virtual and available when and where you are.

Complete your SAP evaluation 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 maritime duties may be on hold, but the SAP process does not have to be. Virtual evaluations let you begin promptly without waiting for an in person appointment.

We Keep Your Process Moving

Delays in the SAP process can mean more time away from Coast Guard regulated work. We complete required SAP documentation promptly so you can move forward after each required step.

We Understand Maritime Work

We work with mariners, vessel crew members, engineers, deck personnel, and other Coast Guard regulated employees performing safety sensitive duties. You will not have to spend your evaluation explaining the demands of maritime 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 maritime professionals 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.

$450 flat. Virtual. All 50 states. Open 7 days a week. Se habla Español.

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