Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014

This section applies if an authorised person requires a rail safety worker to submit to a blood test under the Rail Safety National Law (ACT), section 127 (Authorised person may require drug screening test, oral fluid analysis, urine test and blood test).

A blood test may only be carried out by a sample taker.

An authorised person must not require a rail safety worker to submit to a blood test—

if the rail safety worker was required to submit to an alcohol screening test or a drug screening test under the Rail Safety National Law (ACT), section 126 or section 127—if more than 4 hours have passed since the test was carried out; or

in any other case—

if the worker was involved in a prescribed notifiable occurrence and—

the worker was taken to hospital—if more than 2 hours has passed since the worker’s arrival at the hospital; or

the worker was not taken to hospital—if more than 8 hours has passed since the prescribed notifiable occurrence happened; or

if the worker was not involved in a prescribed notifiable occurrence—if more than 8 hours has passed since the worker stopped carrying out rail safety work.