Employee Drug and Alcohol Program Education for DOT-Regulated Workplaces
Understand your rights, responsibilities and what to expect under a DOT drug and alcohol testing programme.
Start Course Now →If you perform a safety-sensitive function in a DOT-regulated workplace, you are covered by your employer's drug and alcohol testing programme — and you are expected to understand how it works. This beginner-level course explains why these programmes exist, what conduct is prohibited, how testing happens and what your own responsibilities are, so you can stay compliant with confidence.
Walk out able to actually help.
Know why DOT drug and alcohol programmes exist and when you are performing a safety-sensitive function.
Identify prohibited alcohol and controlled-substance conduct and your responsibilities around medications.
Understand the main types of testing and what each collection and review process involves.
Know what happens after a violation and how the return-to-duty process helps you get back to work.
Built around the moment it matters.
Understanding Your DOT Drug and Alcohol Program
Why these programmes exist and which employees and functions are covered.
Policy, Prohibited Conduct, and Your Responsibilities
Your employer's policy, prohibited alcohol and drug conduct, and your duties around medications.
Types of Testing
When testing happens, including for-cause and return-to-duty testing.
How Testing Works: Procedures and Privacy
The collection and testing process, and how your privacy and integrity are protected.
Violations, Consequences, and Getting Back to Work
What happens after a violation, the return-to-duty process, and where to find support.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Five structured modules with reviews
- Plain-language explanation of DOT requirements
- Guidance on testing and your responsibilities
- Certificate of completion