Workplace Drug Testing

Workplace drug testing services

Choosing AlphaBiolabs as your partner laboratory ensures that you are using one of the most experienced and accredited laboratories in the country. You also get the best prices possible!

With our on-site sample collection service, we can help you manage all your employee drug testing.

Many companies and employers use drug testing in the workplace as a measure to improve safety. Recent studies have shown the detrimental effects that drugs can have in the workplace. AlphaBiolabs has been operating in the drug and alcohol testing sector for over 15 years and its team has over 50 years combined knowledge, which makes us one of the most experienced testers in Europe. Do not compromise on quality and leave your drug testing to chance: please choose a certified laboratory.

Oral fluid drug testing

It is possible to determine whether someone is misusing drugs by taking a sample of their saliva and analysing it for particular substances. An immediate negative result may mean that no further action needs to be taken; a non-negative result will then undergo confirmation testing at our in-house laboratory to determine exactly what drug was taken and in what quantities.

Oral fluid drug testing is known as a ‘narrow window’ form of testing as its period of detection is up to 48 hours (although this can depend on the particular substance taken).

Urine drug testing

This workplace drug testing method is used to determine whether someone is misusing drugs by taking a sample of their urine and analysing it for particular substances. An immediate negative result may mean that no further action is necessary; a non-negative result may require confirmation testing from our laboratory to determine exactly what substance was taken and in what quantities.

Urine drug testing is known as a ‘narrow window’ form of testing as its period of detection is approximately 4 days (although this can depend on the particular substance taken).

Hair drug testing

Hair drug testing is an innovative way to determine historically whether illicit drugs have been abused over a period of up to 12 months.

An average person’s head hair grows at a rate of approximately 1 cm per month. Following consumption of a drug and its passage into the bloodstream, a proportion of the drug’s metabolites will enter the hair follicle.

The head hair sample is collected and cut according to the specific requirements. To gain a clearer picture of how long a drug has been used, we recommend that the hair is segmented, and each segment analysed separately for the presence of drugs. This allows us to analyse the hair sample on a month-by-month basis to indicate over which months the sample donor was taking the drug, rather than providing a general overview of the entire period.