The Alcohol/Drug Testing Approval and Permit Program helps to formulate and enforce the Director of Health’s Administrative Rules OAC 3701-53-01 through 11. Functions of this Program involve:

• Approving techniques to determine the concentration of alcohol in blood, urine and breath

• Approving techniques to determine the concentration of drugs in blood and urine

• Approving evidential breath testing instruments

• Devising protocols to insure the proper and consistent operation of evidential breath testing instruments

• Overseeing the certification of Simulator Solutions used in evidential breath testing

• Promulgating basic requirements for personnel performing breath, and blood or urine testing for alcohol, and blood or urine testing for alcohol or drugs

• Promulgating basic proficiency requirements pursuant to breath, and blood or urine testing for alcohol, and blood or urine testing for alcohol or drugs

• Promulgating basic requirements for the retention of records and specimens pursuant to breath for alcohol, and blood and urine for alcohol or drugs

• Issuing permits for breath, and blood or urine testing for alcohol, and blood or urine testing for alcohol or drugs

• Revoking permits from permit holders who fail to comply with OAC 3701-53-01 through 10

Services

The Alcohol/Drug Testing Approval and Permit Program routinely provides expert testimony in support of OAC 3701-53-01 through 11. It also participates in education programs pursuant to alcohol and drug testing and regulation.