NZQA drug testing courses - Taranaki

Sue Nolan is now offering new trainee NZQA Zoom courses for both urine and oral fluid drug testing. Zoom refresher training courses are also available.

Courses

Urine drug testing classroom courses for new and refresher trainees: US 25458 and 25511: 8.5 hours

• New Plymouth, Thursday 14 March 2024

Urine drug testing Zoom courses for new trainees: US 25458 and 25511: 8.5 hours

• Friday 17 November
• Friday 19 January

Urine drug testing Zoom courses for refresher trainees: US 25458 and 25511: 5 hours 

• Tuesday 21 November
• Tuesday 23 January

Oral Fluid drug testing: classroom courses: US 32327 and 32328: 7.5 or 8.5 hours

NB: A recommended (but not mandatory) prerequisite for enrolling on NZQA oral fluid courses is that you have completed either new or refresher US 25458 and 25511 training in the past three years.

• New Plymouth: Friday 15 March

Oral Fluid drug testing Zoom courses for new trainees: US 25458 and 25511: 7.5 or 8.5 hours

• Thursday 25 January

Register

Visit www.drugfreesites.co.nz to register your interest in, or enrol on, a particular course. 

Background

Sue Nolan, Director of DrugFree Sites, is contracted by Industry Training Works (ITW) to deliver and assess the NZQA unit standards for drug testing: US 25458 & 25511 (urine) and US 32327 & 32328 (oral fluid). ITW is a highly regarded Training Organisation providing fit for purpose training to ensure safety in the workplace and the drug testing training by Sue Nolan is a compatible addition to their existing portfolio. ITW reports the US credits on behalf of DrugFree Sites to NZQA. 

Sue Nolan is New Zealand’s leading expert in Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing and Training and her courses are recognised as Gold Standard and fully conform with the requirements of:

• AS/NZS 4308: 2008 “Procedures for specimen collection and the detection and quantitation of drugs of abuse in urine.”
• AS/NZS 4760: 2019 “Procedure for specimen collection and the detection and quantification of drugs in oral fluid.”
• AS/NZS 4308: 2023 “Procedure for specimen collection and the detection and quantification of drugs in urine.”

Sue has been a member of both Australian/ New Zealand Standard committees since 1995 and has particularly sound knowledge of the specifications required for both training and ongoing quality drug testing. Her expertise is internationally recognised and she is a Board Member for the International Forum for Drug & Alcohol Testing (IFDAT) and regularly invited to be a speaker at NZ and global conferences. 

All training will comply with the two latest 2019 (V3) NZQA unit standards for urine testing:

• US 25458 (V3) Perform urine specimen collection in the workplace for drug testing (PDF).
• US 25511 (V3) Perform urine drug screening in the workplace (PDF).

And the 2021 (V1) unit standards for oral fluid testing:

• US 23237 (V1)  Perform oral fluid specimen collection in the workplace for drug testing (PDF).
• US 23238 (V1) Perform oral fluid drug screening in the workplace (PDF). 

It is a recommended (but not mandatory) that a person completes urine drug testing training prior to enrolling on a course for oral fluid training. In situations where the two courses are conducted on consecutive days, the trainee can enrol on both courses.