Railway D&A

Railway Drugs & Alcohol

Course Summary: You are required to undertake Network Rail D&A screening before sitting a PTS Training Initial course. The NWR drug test is a lab analysis of a urine sample. The rail industry has an alcohol cut off level of 13 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath.

Network Rail’s drug and alcohol policy is zero-tolerance. If you test positive for any of the substances in the 7 panel, your Sentinel card will be cancelled, and you will not be able to work on their infrastructure for 5 years.