RSAP - Details, Documents, Links
Quick Link to RSAP Registration website :
RSAP Registration
The new Collective Agreement (2011-2015) includes a Letter of Understanding between Construction Labour Relations and Locals 1325 and 2103 that adopts the Rapid Site Access Program (RSAP).
The key elements of RSAP are:
Workers take a single initial urinalysis test, paid for by the program. No further urinalysis tests are required. If you have already taken a preaccess urine test, there is no need for another one.
Each month, a computer-generated random list of workers will be asked to take an oral swab test. Tests are given ONLY TO THOSE ON THE JOB. Testers won‘t come to your home.
If you test positive, you will be removed from the site and asked to follow up with OHI, an independent case manager, which may send you for a Human Solutions (the company which operates ARC’s employee assistance program) assessment. It is possible that you may be placed on an ‘inactive’ list, making you unavailable for dispatch until the follow-up is complete.
Follow-up occurs, and presuming it’s satisfactory, if you’ve been inactive, you are once again eligible for dispatch.
In return for being on the RSAP program, the member is NO LONGER REQUIRED TO TAKE PRE-ACCESS TESTING, and can therefore be sent directly to the job site and begin work with no down time.
The RSAP program, working with COAA, allows you to be tested orally if you give the employer reasonable cause to do so (i.e. slurred speech, post incident, near-miss etc).
Oral swab testing tends to ‘reach back’ approximately 10-12 hours
Relevant Documents:
Frequently Asked Questions (legal)
Frequently Asked Questions (procedures, etc)
Relevant Portion of the Collective Agreement
RSAP Aftercare Letter of Understanding
Canadian Model - Best Practises. Please Note: Our Collective Agreement opts us out of certain portions of this Model.
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