Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3364 - University of Toledo › Chapter 3364-25 - Benefit Policies; Employment › Section 3364-25-128 - Nicotine-free pre-employment process

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Policy statement
The university of Toledo medical center ("UTMC") recognizes the
				U.S. surgeon general findings that tobacco use in any form, active and passive,
				is a significant health hazard. UTMC further supports the findings of the American hospital
				association that recommends that hospitals "serve as a role model of health for
				the community." UTMC recognizes that smoking and the use of tobacco and other
				products containing nicotine is detrimental to the health and safety of
				everyone.
(B) Purpose of
			 policy
To support the community effort toward better health and
				safety, UTMC requires all candidates for employment at UTMC to be
				nicotine-free. All external candidates seeking employment at UTMC must submit
				to a cotinine test during their pre-placement screening. This is a
				pre-employment test only. The cotinine test will detect the presence of
				nicotine in all forms of tobacco.
(C) Scope
All individuals, including rehires, seeking any position at
				UTMC, including faculty, staff, contingent, temporary, resident, and select
				graduate* and undergraduate student* positions, will be required to submit to a
				cotinine test upon an offer of employment at UTMC. All applicants will be
				informed, either during the application process or through oral communication,
				that any employment offer is conditional upon successful completion of a
				cotinine test. This policy does not apply to positions within the university of
				Toledo college of medicine and life sciences ("COMLS"), even if those people
				may perform work at UTMC.
*Graduate assistant and student worker positions that will be
				working in any patient care areas or enter patient care areas in the course of
				performing the duties of their job.
(D) Roles and responsibilities
(1) Prior to or concurrently with
			 conditionally offering an individual employment for a position at UTMC, human
			 resource representatives will provide the applicant the telephone information
			 to occupational health for purposes of scheduling an appointment for medical
			 screening which will include a cotinine test. Any applicant who chooses not to
			 allow the cotinine test will be informed he/she is no longer a candidate for
			 employment.
(2) Occupational health
			 will notify human resources of all cotinine test results. A human resource
			 representative will subsequently contact applicants who test positive to
			 withdraw the offer of employment. Human resources will also notify hiring
			 department managers of applicants who test positive and are not eligible for
			 employment. A separate notification process will be followed for faculty and
			 resident hires.
(3) Applicants who
			 test positive for cotinine will be eligible to reapply after
			 
									thirty
			 days from the test date. These individuals will also be given information
			 regarding free smoking cessation offerings.
(4) No applicants will be permitted to
			 actually begin work until the results of the cotinine test are determined and
			 proper notification is provided.