5-H. DRUG FREE WORKPLACE CERTIFICATE.pdf
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- Solicitation number
- 26B-038
- Issued by
- Marion County, Florida
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This is a Drug-Free Workplace Program Certification document issued by the State of Florida Department of Transportation for use in state and local contract solicitations. The certification requires responding firms to confirm implementation of a drug-free workplace program in accordance with Section 287.087, Florida Statutes. Bidders must attest that their business has established workplace policies prohibiting the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of controlled substances and has communicated these policies to all employees engaged in providing the commodities or contractual services under bid.
To maintain a qualifying drug-free workplace program, businesses must publish a statement notifying employees of the prohibition on controlled substances and the consequences for violations; inform employees about drug abuse dangers and available counseling and rehabilitation programs; distribute the policy statement to each employee; require employees to notify the employer within five days of any conviction or guilty plea related to controlled substance violations occurring in the workplace; and impose sanctions or require satisfactory participation in drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation programs for violations. When two or more bids, proposals, or replies are equal in price, quality, and service, preference in the award process is given to businesses that certify implementation of a drug-free workplace program. This certification applies to the road resurfacing project for NE 35th Street and NE 60th Court in Florida.
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STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE PROGRAM CERTIFICATION
(6) Make a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace through implementation of this section.
Does the individual responding to this solicitation certify that their firm has implemented a drug-free workplace program in accordance with the provision of Section 287.087, Florida Statutes, as stated above?
YES
NO
NAME OF BUSINESS:
287.087 Preference to businesses with drug-free workplace programs. --Whenever two or more bids, proposals, or replies that are equal with respect to price, quality, and service are received by the state or by any political subdivision for the procurement of commodities or contractual services, a bid, proposal, or reply received from a business that certifies that it has implemented a drug-free workplace program shall be given preference in the award process. In order to have a drug-free workplace program, a business shall:
(1) Publish a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the workplace and specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violations of such prohibition.
(2) Inform employees about the dangers of drug abuse in the workplace, the business's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace, any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs, and the penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug abuse violations.
(3) Give each employee engaged in providing the commodities or contractual services that are under bid a copy of the statement specified in subsection (1).
(4) In the statement specified in subsection (1), notify the employees that, as a condition of working on the commodities or contractual services that are under bid, the employee will abide by the terms of the statement and will notify the employer of any conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any violation of Chapter 893 or of any controlled substance law of the United States or any state, for a violation occurring in the workplace no later than 5 days after such conviction.
(5) Impose a sanction on, or require the satisfactory participation in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program if such is available in the employee's community by, any employee who is so convicted.
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