What is the Southern Railway pre-employment drug screening process?
Are you talking about Southern Railway in the UK…? The drugs and alcohol screening will take place when you have your medical, which is usually the last hurdle before being accepted onto a training course as a trainee driver (or are you applying for another post?). The reason is that this costs the company money because it is contracted out to BUPA, and they won’t front up the readies unless they are pretty sure you’ll make the grade. For reference for others, the process usually starts with pre-assessment to weed out the complete no-hopers. Then it’s the full battery of psychometric tests and structured interview, then an interview with the company and then, if you’ve passed all those stages, a medical. Therefore you shouldn’t expect to have the medical on the same day, though it would always be a good move to stay off the sauce before the interview to make sure you’re at your best and most rested anyway. Just as an additional thought, traces of drugs can remain in your system for u
