So I just started a new job, managing a warehouse, and I have been concerned about people smoking meth or haroin in the public bathrooms.

I live in a small town and with in the last year 80% of the public restrooms have tested positive for toxins. There is a couple of reason why this is a concern: one is monetary and the other is my kids will be around and will be using the same facilities.

So I have been wondering if anyone out there has any ideas on how to combat this issue? I was looking for a smoke alarm that detects meth along with heroin, but I have been striking out.

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Drug test employees, fire offenders, repeat.

We already are subject to drug testing and are in a random pool as well. I don't think the employees are the ones I am worrying about.

these are the public bathrooms. I might be mistaken, but since there was ADA funding that we have to offer a ADA bathroom for public use.

I would think the bigger concern would be the meth heads and junkies making off with inventory, destroying equipment and other wise acting like dope heads than the residue of their toxins in the crapper.

Most $20 bill "test positive" for Cocaine, but you're not going to get high by handling them

You're seriously overreacting

Wouldn't a standard smoke alarm work for meth?

Most smoke detectors these days are photoelectric, in simple terms a light on one side of a chamber, and a detector on the other side. If enough particles are in the chamber to obscure enough light, the detector goes into alarm. The alarm threshold depends on both the quantity and size of the particles. So yes, if someones puffing on their meth pipe, the alarm would go off at some point.

If I lived somewhere that you'd have to worry about meth heads sparking up in your companies bathrooms, I'd make moving somewhere else priority number one.

I very well could be. I have been told that once you test positive the "only" way to decontaminate is to gut the bathroom down to the studs and rebuild it. SO at the very least it is a financial issue. I will do a little more research on the harmfulness of absorbing it through your skin and worry about that later.

Just a guess - it sounds like someone wants to single out the meth-heads, while accommodating the tobacco smokers. There's a simple answer for this...

Google says a smoke alarm will not work as Meth Smoke is a vapor and dissipates too quickly.

Only one I can come up with is a 175 gr Sierra BTHP at 2700 fps from a 308 Winchester.

they would take your smoke alarm apart and make a bowl or bong out of it

Order a couple dogs from Ingwe.

Drug test new employees when hiring. Don't hire convicted felons. Drug test employees involved in accidents.

If you have corporate policies that affect these issues, you will have to comply with them. Some companies, for example, will require a full time employee to enter rehab if they fail a drug test.

I had an excellent employee once - never had a bit of trouble from him, and a great worker. He had a strange accident on the job, we tested him, and his cocaine level was so high that the lab wondered how he was alive. We fired him, but he was rehired by another guy a couple years later, after supposedly cleaning up his act.

He already said more than once it's a PUBLIC restroom, and he's not worried about the employees



Was the person who told you that in the remodeling business?
It sounds like a big load of BS to me unless they have set up a lab in there to MAKE Meth, and not just smoke it

It was the maintenance department from another company. I guess they had to go to a seminar, or whatever you want to call it, to learn how to decon for meth.

I would guess that a 40gr hp at 1050fps from a suppressed 22lr would be just as effective. But I can see your point.

Agree with this post.

Recreational drug use is a victimless crime. I heard.

You'll end up with residue and broken smoke detectors.

Unless there are different residential and commercial decontamination regulations, a total tear out and replacement of drywall was not mandatory when a meth lab got busted by police in a rental house that my wife used to own.

A thorough decontamination of the entire inside of the house by trained HazMat certified professionals was mandatory though before it could be legally rented again and expensive enough as it was.

Hidden camera that cant view someones gear while they are on the toilet, but can see the face/etc if they are smoking.

Use it periodically, and never ever reveal that it is there. Ever. And dont be a perv about it.

Anytime a methhead etc uses in the bathroom, report to police re odd behavior, smell, etc, DUI.

That, or put in a large sign and a fake camera or device... unplugged... that states "meth/heroine detector".

Sounds like they are manufacturing job security
I don't believe they are accurate

Got one of those too, and yes, the little "whisperer" would be less of a mess.

That would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.

All you need is one female to stand up while she wipes and you are a convicted sex offender, broke from her lawsuit, and unemployed for violating company policy.

very bad idea.