[Stephen Small]

We use saliva for screening for random, reasonable cause, and post-incident testing (I’m not involved with pre-employment). urine analysis is still used to confirm a non-negative.

We found it far easier to administer in the field, and less invasive (especially females).

Initially there was concern that no qualification existed for practitioners to demonstrate compliance with AS/NZS4760:2019 (compared with NZQA US25111 & US25458 for AS/NZS 4308:2008) which could lead to legal challenges if termination subsequently occurred.