Drug Testing: Worker Guide

Overview

If your project requires drug testing, you must satisfy that requirement before your badge can be issued for jobsite access. Field Control Analytics (FCA) links your drug test result to your badge status based on the project’s requirements. 

This guide explains how to schedule a drug test, upload third-party results, and check the approval status of your submission in the FCA Worker app and FCA Worker Portal.

Project Onboarding: Scheduling a Drug Test Appointment

During onboarding, you’ll schedule your drug test at an FCA-contracted clinic or an onsite testing location. Attending your appointment is one step in the process. Your test result determines how your badge status is updated. 

FCA Worker App

Book an Appointment

Scheduling an appointment does not complete the drug testing requirement. You must attend the appointment, and your test result must meet the project’s requirements before your badge can be issued. 

After signing the project consent and drug test disclosure, follow these steps in the FCA Worker app: 

Open the Projects tab.

Select the project card for the project that requires your drug test. 

     

Select Book an Appointment

Select a Testing Facility from list 

Choose an Appointment Date

Select the Drug Testing Type

Select Book Appointment to complete your booking.

   

Third-party drug test results 

If your project accepts third-party results, you can upload them through the FCA Worker app. A company admin or general contractor (GC) admin must approve your submission before it satisfies the project’s drug testing requirement.

To submit your results: 

Select Upload third party results

Select the Test Date

Enter the Facility Name where you obtained the drug test result

Choose the Panel 

Choose the Drug Testing Type

Enter the Reason

Enter the Result

Select Upload Results

       

Check your third-party result status 

Third-party results entered directly by a worker must be approved by a company admin or GC admin before the third-party result will satisfy the drug testing requirement for a project.

Select View Third-Party Test Results to check the status of your submission.

Pending 

Your submission is awaiting review by a company admin or GC admin. You’ll see the results pending approval icon while your submission is pending. The submission does not satisfy the project’s drug testing requirement until it is approved. 

 

 

Approved 

A company admin or GC admin has approved your submission. The results pending approval icon will no longer appear, and your result status will display as **Approved**.

An approved third-party result satisfies the drug testing requirement for a project that accepts third-party results, allowing your badge to be issued once all other project requirements are met.

   

Denied

Your uploaded submission was not approved.

Upload a new third-party result for a company admin or GC admin to review. 

FCA Worker Portal

Book an Appointment

If your project requires drug testing, your Welcome Aboard message will include a link to the drug testing section after you sign the consent form. Use this link to schedule your appointment. 

Scheduling an appointment does not complete the drug testing requirement. You must attend the appointment, and your test result must meet the project’s requirements before your badge can be issued. 

Select Book an Appointment to schedule a new drug testing appointment

 

Select the Project that requires your drug test. 

Select the Testing Facility from the list

Select the Testing Panel

Select the Testing Type

Enter a Reason for the test.

Select the Appointment Date

Select Confirm to complete your booking.

Track your appointment and test result

Go to My Account > Drug Testing to view your appointment information and check for updates.

Your appointment status and test result tell you different things: 

Appointment status shows where you are in the testing process, such as whether your appointment is scheduled. 

Test result shows the outcome of your drug test once it has been entered in the FCA platform. 

Immediately after booking, you’ll see: 

Status: Scheduled — your appointment has been booked. -

Test Result: Not Set — a test result has not yet been entered. This is not a negative or positive result.

When you arrive at the facility, staff will verify your arrival as part of the testing process.

Verification is a process step, not a test result.

Once your result is entered in the FCA platform, you can review it under My Account > Drug Testing.

Understand your result and its effect on your badge

Negative

A negative drug testing result satisfies the drug testing requirement.

Your badge can be issued once all other project requirements are met. 

Non-conclusive

A non-conclusive testing result is not a final result. It remains pending until the Medical Review Officer (MRO) enters the final result in the FCA platform.

The final result determines how the drug testing requirement affects your badge eligibility. 

Invalid

An invalid drug testing result prevents your badge from being issued.

It does not satisfy the project’s drug testing requirement. 

Positive

A positive drug testing result entered by the MRO prevents your badge from being issued.