§ 40.45 What materials are used to send urine specimens to the laboratory?

(a) TheExcept Federalas Drugprovided Testingin Custodyparagraph and Control Form (CCFb) mustof be used to document every urine collection required by the DOT drug testing program. You may view this form on the Department's Web site (http://www.dot.gov/odapc) or the HHS Web site (http://www.workplace.samhsa.gov).
(b) You must not use a non-Federal form or an expired CCF to conduct a DOT urine collection. As a laboratorysection, C/TPA or other party that provides CCFs to employers, collection sites, or other customers, you must not provide copies of an expired CCF to these participants. You must also affirmatively notify these participants that they must not use ana expiredshipping CCFcontainer (e.g., that afteradequately Novemberprotects 30, 2011, they must not use an expired CCF for DOT urine collections).
(c) As a participant in the DOTspecimen drugbottles testingfrom program,shipment youdamage are not permitted to modify or revise the CCF except as follows:
(1) You may include, in the areatransport outside the border of thespecimens form,from other information needed for billing or other purposes necessary to the collection process.
(2)site The CCF must include the names, addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers of the employer and the MRO, which may be preprinted, typed, or handwritten. The MRO information must include the specific physician's name and address, as opposed to only a generic clinic, health care organization, or company name. This information is required, and it is prohibited for an employer, collector, service agent or any other party to omit it. In addition, a C/TPA's name, address, fax number, and telephone number may be included, but is not required. The employer may use a C/TPA's address in place of its own, but must continue to include its name, telephone number, and fax number.
(3) As an employer, in Step 1-D of the CCF you may preprint the box for the DOT Agency under whose authority the test will occurlaboratory.
(4b) AsYou a collector, you may use a CCF with your name, address, telephone number, and fax number preprinted, but under no circumstances may you sign the form before the collection event.
(5) When using an electronic CCF, you must establish adequate confidentiality and security measures to ensure that confidential employee records are not availablerequired to unauthorizeduse persons. This includes protecting the physical security of records, access controls, and computer security measures to safeguard confidential data in electronic form.
(d) Under no circumstances may the CCF transmit personal identifying information about an employee (other than a socialshipping securitycontainer numberif (SSN) or other employee identification (ID) number) to a laboratory.
(e) Ascourier an employer, you may use an equivalent foreignhand-languagedelivers version of the CCFspecimens approvedfrom by ODAPC. You may use such a non-English language form only in a situation where both the employee and collector understand and can use the form in that language.
(f) An employer who uses an electronic CCF must ensure that the collection site, theto primary and split laboratories, and MRO have compatible systems, and that the employee and any other program participants in the testing process will receive a legible copy of the CCFlaboratory.
[65 FR 79526, Dec. 19, 2000,. asRedesignated amended at 6688 FR 4195027639, Aug.May 92, 2001; 75 FR 59107, Sept. 27, 2010; 76 FR 59577, Sept. 27, 2011; 80 FR 19553, Apr. 13, 20152023]