Return to Duty Process
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Initial evaluation
After you are mandated to complete the return-to-duty process, you will be given a list of SAP providers who can get you started. You will complete the initial evaluation either in person or via tele-health. After the evaluation, you will work with the SAP to create a treatment plan based on your current need areas. You will be provided with a copy of your treatment plan. You will be recommended to a program that will carry out the duties of your treatment plan.
Treatment
Your SAP will monitor and communicate your progress in treatment with the referral source and/or other providers facilitating your treatment. Please note that this communication is not optional. The program may offer several services: groups, individual sessions, non-intensive outpatient, intensive outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization, urine screening, etc. You are to complete all services required by your treatment plan. Interruptions in services or failure to complete services can result in consequences, up to and including termination of your DOT license/certification. If the treatment program is unable to provide all necessary services, the SAP will find other providers in your area to carry out services. Throughout your treatment, the SAP will check in with you and provide updates to your initial paperwork.
Aftercare
Your SAP will conduct a follow up evaluation report and testing plan. This evaluation report is the initial test required prior to you returning to a safety sensitive position. Your SAP provider may follow-up your services in a less restrictive program to reduce the chances of relapse.
Important to know
· All Substance abuse evaluations will be conducted via telehealth and within 48 hours.
The requirements of your follow-up testing plan will follow you to subsequent employers and through breaks in services.
· Until the SAP has completed the follow up evaluation and testing plan, you are prohibited from being in a safety sensitive position.
· The SAP does not make recommendations on your fitness for duty. It is your employer and/or future employer, who decides to put you back into a safety sensitive position.
· If you use other substances during the return to duty process, it can affect your treatment.
· Case management is available to all clients needing this service.
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