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904 Drug Free Work Place
The City of Grapevine is committed to providing a safe, efficient, and productive work
place for all employees. In keeping with this commitment, employees and job
applicants may be required to provide body fluids (blood, breath, or urine) to
determine the use of alcohol, illegal or controlled substances in the work place.
Drug tests will be conducted in any of the following situations:
(1) pre-employment as a prequalification to assuming any position, prospective
employees are required to provide body fluids for drug testing;
(2) promotion or transfer as a prerequisite to assuming the position, affected
employees may be required to submit to drug testing;
(3) employees involved in a reportable accident while operating City vehicles or
equipment may be required to provide body fluids for drug and alcohol testing;
(4) reasonable suspicion - as set forth under the existing Drug and Alcohol Policy;
(5) employees holding safety sensitive jobs may be subject to random drug and
alcohol testing at the direction of the City Manager.
Upon beginning work each employee shall receive a copy of the City of Grapevine
Human Resources Manual which contains the City’s Drug and Alcohol Policy. Each
employee shall sign for receipt of the Human Resources Manual, which shall be
placed in that employee's permanent Human Resources file.
Drug Free Work Place Policy Statement
While at work, each City employee has a responsibility to the public to deliver
services in a safe, efficient, and conscientious manner. In order to perform a job in
the safest manner possible, City employees must be able to work in a drug-free
environment and themselves be free from the effects of alcohol and other
performance impairing substances while on the job. Accordingly, while on the job
or in a City vehicle, the use, sale, distribution, possession of an open container, or
being under the influence of an intoxicating liquor, controlled substance, drug not
medically authorized, or any other substance which impairs job performance or
poses a hazard to the safety and welfare of the employee, the public, or other
employees, is strictly prohibited and will result in suspension or termination.
Applicants whose pre-employment drug tests are adulterated or positive as
reported by the City’s Medical Review Officer (MRO) will not be hired.
Revised 04/21/2003