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Chapter 4 Staffing
Article 27
A testing institution shall designate a responsible person to take charge of the management of drug abuse urine testing activities.
The responsible person shall have any of the following qualifications:
1. Doctor's degree, major in analytical chemistry or other related natural science, and at least one year of practical experiences;
2. Master's degree, major in analytical chemistry or other related natural science in college or research institute, and at least three years of practical experiences; or
3. Graduate from chemistry or other related natural science department of university or college, and at least five years of practical experiences.
The responsible person shall undertake the following duties:
1. To ensure the testing institution has enough trained and experienced personnel to carry out drug abuse testing activities, and take charge of the on-job training, auditing of workload and technical confirmation of internal personnel;
2. To ensure the testing institution has a complete standard operation procedure, audit the revision of the procedure and record the date of revision;
3. To establish and implement quality assurance plan;
4. To supervise the implementation of quality management and quality control urine test;
5. To ensure the accuracy of the testing system and the test of each batch of test samples, and take relevant records;
6. To approve and sign the test report; and
7. To take necessary correction and prevention measures and take relevant records if any incompliance with the quality management system occurs.
Article 28
A testing institution shall designate certifying scientist to confirm all the data and quality control results.
A certifying scientist shall have any of the following qualifications:
1. Doctor's degree, major in analytical chemistry or other related natural science, and at least one year of practical experiences in testing;
2. Master's degree, major in analytical chemistry or other related natural science in college or research institute, and at least two years of practical experiences in testing; or
3. Graduate from the department of chemistry or other related natural science of university or college, and at least three years of practical experiences in testing.
Article 29
The personnel of a testing institution shall take on-job training and master the technologies required for accomplishing the work.
Article 30
The responsible person, cerifying scientist, testers and other personnel of a testing institution all shall have a positional representative, and written records shall be taken about the representation.
Article 31
The testing institutions shall set up personnel data file, and the contents of the files shall include at least educational background, working experiences, training records, performance test records, and description of the current job.