Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 16, 2025

Title 49 - Transportation last revised: Jan 27, 2025
§ 655.31 - Alcohol testing.

(a) An employer shall establish a program that provides for testing for alcohol in the following circumstances: post-accident, reasonable suspicion, random, and return to duty/follow-up. An employer may also conduct pre-employment alcohol testing.

(b) Each employer shall prohibit a covered employee, while having an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater, from performing or continuing to perform a safety-sensitive function.

authority: 49 U.S.C. 5331 (as amended); 49 CFR 1.91
source: 66 FR 42002, Aug. 9, 2001, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 49 CFR 655.31