When this is the program
- A growing company writing its first testing policy
- A policy written before New Jersey's cannabis laws changed
- A school board or municipality that needs a policy to survive formal review
- An employer whose auditor asked for the written program and found a gap
What's included
- The DOT-required written policy and employee educational materials, including the alcohol thresholds and consequences 49 CFR 382.601(b) requires the materials to explain
- The signed certificate of receipt for every driver, with the original kept on file (49 CFR 382.601(d))
- Non-DOT policies that define coverage, testing events, and consequences clearly, and keep the DOT and non-DOT programs completely separate as 49 CFR 40.13 requires
- New Jersey cannabis-law awareness built in: the metabolite rule, the physical evaluation by a certified Workplace Impairment Recognition Evaluator, and the federal carve-out
- Board-adopted district policies and municipal policies drafted for public-sector review
- Annual review and upkeep as regulations and case law move
- Written to hand your counsel a near-finished document
How it works with PSI
- The policy is stage one of the PSI program; everything else in your program enforces what it says
- Reviewed against how your testing actually runs, so the paper matches the practice
- Kept current year to year as part of the ongoing relationship
Common questions
Is this legal advice?
No. Final review belongs with your attorney. What PSI brings is the testing-industry substance: the federal requirements, the program mechanics, and how New Jersey employers are handling cannabis. Counsel review goes faster when the draft arrives nearly finished.
We already have a policy. Why revisit it?
Because the law moved. On May 26, 2026 the New Jersey Appellate Division held in Sanders v. The Levari Group, LLC that an applicant refused hire over a positive cannabinoid-metabolite test can sue under the state cannabis law, a matter of first impression. That reading may develop further, and none of this is legal advice, but a non-DOT policy that predates it is worth an hour of review before an incident forces the question. Federally required DOT testing is not affected.