Haw. Code R. § 11-113-15 - Laboratory personnel
(a) The laboratory
shall have a scientific director to assume overall professional responsibility
for the laboratory's drug testing facility. This individual shall have the
following minimum qualifications:
(1) A Ph.D.
in one of the natural sciences such as toxicology, pharmacology, chemistry, or
biological chemistry, or training and experience comparable to a Ph.D. in one
of the natural sciences, such as a medical or scientific degree with additional
training and laboratory/research experience in toxicology, pharmacology,
chemistry, or biological chemistry; and
(2) Appropriate experience in analytical
forensic toxicology.
(b)
The scientific director shall be responsible for the day-to-day management of
the substance abuse testing laboratory, ensuring the competency of laboratory
personnel by documenting their training, reviewing their work performance, and
verifying their skills, for the continued maintenance of the procedure manual,
maintaining quality assurance program, and assuring and documenting the
validity, reliability, accuracy, precision and performance characteristics of
each test and test system. The scientific director shall review all
confirmatory test results for accuracy and reliability, and all chain of
custody documents for specimens which have yielded positive test
results.
(c) All persons who
perform substance abuse testing shall meet one of the following requirements:
(1) Have a bachelor's degree from a college
or university which is acceptable to the department, with a minimum of fifteen
semester hours in college level chemistry courses;
(2) Have a license as clinical laboratory
technologist or specialist in clinical chemistry from the department;
or
(3) Have a minimum of four years
of experience as an analyst in substance abuse testing, analytical chemistry,
clinical chemistry, or biological chemistry.
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