Author Archives: Manraj

How can workplaces manage risk due to substance use? In spite of rigid urine and hair testing regimes, drug use in NZ has not decreased, rather they have opened pathways for ventures that provide powdered/synthetic urine. Drug Screening has mainly become a tick exercise and we have lost the intent of why we are screening. […]

Advance Diagnostics is proud to advise they are the first suppliers of breathalysers that comply to the Australian Standard AS3547:2019 Breath Alcohol Testing Devices. The Alcolizer LE5, Alcolizer HH4 and Alcolizer HH3 Alcohol Testers are now certified as compliant to the Australian Standard AS3547:2019. The SAI Global certificate showing compliance is available to download off the SAI Global […]

Police and scientists have developed a handheld device for frontline officers to test for methamphetamine, MDMA and cocaine. The real-time drug-screening tool allows officers to test for “the three most harmful and commonly used drugs on the New Zealand market” while “working in our communities”, police said in a statement. A six-month trial of the […]

American Airlines cancelled a flight from Detroit to Philadelphia after a co-pilot was suspected of being intoxicated. The pilot, who hasn’t been named, allegedly tested above the legal limit for blood alcohol content, according to a statement issued by the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials had reported his behaviour. The pilot was detained at a security checkpoint at […]

Prominent harness driver Blair Orange has been fined $1050 and suspended from race driving for five meetings after failing a raceday breath test at the Central Otago trots on Saturday. Orange had pleaded guilty to presenting himself to drive at the races with excessive alcohol in his system. The penalty was delivered at Roxburgh on […]