The Staffing Agency Drug Testing Challenge
Staffing agencies face a unique drug testing problem: speed. When a client calls needing 10 workers on Monday, you don't have a week to wait for clinic appointments and lab turnarounds. But you also can't skip the drug test — your client contracts almost certainly require it, and your own liability exposure depends on it.
The traditional model — giving candidates a form and sending them to a clinic — creates delays, no-shows, and result turnarounds that slow your placements. Mobile testing changes the equation.
How Mobile Testing Helps Staffing Agencies
Instead of coordinating clinic appointments across multiple candidates, staffing agencies can schedule a single On Point Drug Testing visit to their San Diego office. We arrive at a set time, run through your candidate pool in order, and provide rapid on-site results for non-DOT screens within minutes.
For a batch of 10 candidates, the entire process might take 2–3 hours on-site — versus days of coordinating 10 separate clinic visits, chasing down no-shows, and waiting for results to come in.
Reducing No-Shows
Candidate no-shows at drug testing clinics are a real problem for staffing agencies. When the test happens at your office during the interview process — or immediately after the conditional offer — the candidate is already present. The completion rate is dramatically higher than sending candidates to an off-site location.
DOT vs. Non-DOT Placements
Many staffing agencies place workers in both DOT-regulated and non-DOT roles. For CDL driver placements, DOT pre-employment testing is mandatory and must follow 49 CFR Part 40 procedures. On Point Drug Testing performs both DOT and non-DOT collections, so you don't need two different vendors. Call us at 619-241-4415 and we'll match the collection type to the placement.
Rapid Results = Faster Placements
For non-DOT placements using our rapid 5-panel or 10-panel screen, a negative result is in hand on-site before we leave — meaning you can place that worker the same day. No waiting for lab results to come back the next morning. In a competitive staffing market, that speed difference can mean winning or losing the placement.