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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 120.217 

conduct leading to actual loss of life, 
injury, or damage to property, whether 
the provisions apply specifically to 
transportation employees or employers 
or to the general public. 

§ 120.207

Other requirements imposed 

by employers. 

Except as expressly provided in these 

alcohol testing requirements, nothing 
in this subpart shall be construed to af-
fect the authority of employers, or the 
rights of employees, with respect to 
the use or possession of alcohol, includ-
ing any authority and rights with re-
spect to alcohol testing and rehabilita-
tion. 

§ 120.209

Requirement for notice. 

Before performing an alcohol test 

under this subpart, each employer shall 
notify a covered employee that the al-
cohol test is required by this subpart. 
No employer shall falsely represent 
that a test is administered under this 
subpart. 

§ 120.211

Applicable Federal regula-

tions. 

The following applicable regulations 

appear in 49 CFR and 14 CFR: 

(a) 49 CFR Part 40—Procedures for 

Transportation Workplace Drug Test-
ing Programs 

(b) 14 CFR: 
(1) § 67.107—First-Class Airman Med-

ical Certificate, Mental. 

(2) § 67.207—Second-Class Airman 

Medical Certificate, Mental. 

(3) § 67.307—Third-Class Airman Med-

ical Certificate, Mental. 

(4) § 91.147—Passenger carrying 

flights for compensation or hire. 

(5) § 135.1—Applicability 

[Doc. No. FAA–2008–0937, 74 FR 22653, May 14, 
2009; Amdt. 120–0A, 75 FR 3154, Jan. 20, 2010] 

§ 120.213

Falsification. 

No individual may make, or cause to 

be made, any of the following: 

(a) Any fraudulent or intentionally 

false statement in any application of 
an alcohol testing program. 

(b) Any fraudulent or intentionally 

false entry in any record or report that 
is made, kept, or used to show compli-
ance with this subpart. 

(c) Any reproduction or alteration, 

for fraudulent purposes, of any report 

or record required to be kept by this 
subpart. 

§ 120.215

Covered employees. 

(a) Each employee, including any as-

sistant, helper, or individual in a train-
ing status, who performs a safety-sen-
sitive function listed in this section di-
rectly or by contract (including by sub-
contract at any tier) for an employer 
as defined in this subpart must be sub-
ject to alcohol testing under an alcohol 
testing program implemented in ac-
cordance with this subpart. This in-
cludes full-time, part-time, temporary, 
and intermittent employees regardless 
of the degree of supervision. The safe-
ty-sensitive functions are: 

(1) Flight crewmember duties. 
(2) Flight attendant duties. 
(3) Flight instruction duties. 
(4) Aircraft dispatcher duties. 
(5) Aircraft maintenance or preven-

tive maintenance duties. 

(6) Ground security coordinator du-

ties. 

(7) Aviation screening duties. 
(8) Air traffic control duties. 
(9) Operations control specialist du-

ties. 

(b) Each employer must identify any 

employee who is subject to the alcohol 
testing regulations of more than one 
DOT agency. Prior to conducting any 
alcohol test on a covered employee 
subject to the alcohol testing regula-
tions of more than one DOT agency, 
the employer must determine which 
DOT agency authorizes or requires the 
test. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2008–0937, 74 FR 22653, May 14, 
2009, as amended by Amdt. 120–2, 79 FR 9973, 
Feb. 21, 2014] 

§ 120.217

Tests required. 

(a) 

Pre-employment alcohol testing. 

As 

an employer, you may, but are not re-
quired to, conduct pre-employment al-
cohol testing under this subpart. If you 
choose to conduct pre-employment al-
cohol testing, you must comply with 
the following requirements: 

(1) You must conduct a pre-employ-

ment alcohol test before the first per-
formance of safety-sensitive functions 
by every covered employee (whether a 
new employee or someone who has 
transferred to a position involving the 

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