Across the UK, Sinewave builds the infrastructure behind the shift to cleaner energy, from EV charging hubs to battery storage and solar farms. On every project, safety comes first. To support that commitment, Sinewave introduced fingerprint drug testing, offering fast, mobile, and far less intrusive testing than traditional methods.
About Sinewave
Sinewave is an infrastructure company working at the heart of the UK energy transition. Its teams install and energise the systems that power cleaner transport and cleaner power, from electric vehicle charging hubs across the country through to battery storage and solar farms.
Quality and safety sit at the centre of how the company operates. Sinewave holds three ISO accreditations, covering quality (9001), environmental management (14001), and health and safety (45001), and is a certified B Corporation. As the team explains, these standards do more than help win bids; they set the foundations for how Sinewave protects its people, day in and day out.
“They not only help us win bids, but they also help us keep really high standards.”
Tony Jackson, Head of Safety, Health, Environment & Quality
Where Traditional Testing Fell Short
For a business installing high-voltage infrastructure, being fit for duty is a top priority. Sinewave runs both random and targeted drug testing, sometimes as a contractual requirement from clients, but always as part of its overall commitment to health and safety excellence. The aim is straightforward: protect the workforce and everyone around them, on site and in the office.
When Sinewave reviewed traditional options such as urine testing, the process proved intrusive and awkward to manage in the field. It involved handling and sending physical samples, and the practical burden of escorting people to a WC, none of which suited a mobile workforce spread across live sites.
“We looked at all those urination tests and swabs, and we found it really intrusive. There were a lot of mechanical bits to look after, escorting people to the WC and all those bits.”
Tony Jackson, Head of Safety, Health, Environment & Quality
A Test That Moves as Fast as the Team
Sinewave surveyed the market for a non-invasive alternative that could keep pace with the way its teams actually work. Fingerprint drug testing stood out. The Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Testing Solution collects a fingerprint sweat sample and provides rapid on-site screening results. The process needs little more than a quiet room to run a test. There are no urine pots to handle and nothing to slow a site down.
“We surveyed the market, and we definitely felt that fingerprint testing was the right thing for us. It’s a lot cleaner than some of the other methods, but also it’s just the ability to go mobile and have instant results.”
Tony Jackson, Head of Safety, Health, Environment & Quality
Portability mattered as much as speed. A test that travels easily and needs no special facilities meant Sinewave could screen people wherever the work was happening, rather than building the process around a fixed location.
Leading From the Front
Introducing any new testing programme depends on trust. Sinewave was open with the whole company from the start, and staff were told that everyone would be subject to potential random and targeted drug testing. To show exactly how the system works, Sinewave’s chief operating officer stood up in front of the company and took a test himself.
That openness helped turn early uncertainty into acceptance. For team members who had never encountered fingerprint drug testing before, seeing how simple and quick it was in practice made the difference.
For Sinewave, this reflects a wider ambition to lead on health and safety rather than simply meet the standard. The company believes that staying safe means always looking ahead and asking how it can do better.
“Very important to us is to be what’s next, one of our core values. How do we keep you safer? How do we empower our people to put their hands up should there be a problem? But how do we know we’re as safe as we can be on site? Ensuring that people are tested and people are clean is pivotal, not putting others at risk, but also making sure that people are turning up to work ready and clear of mind.”
Michael Brown, Compliance Assistant
Cleaner Tests and Stronger Bids
Since adopting fingerprint drug testing, Sinewave has seen practical benefits across the business. The process is cleaner and simpler to run. It also avoids a common frustration in which a person may struggle to provide a sample at the time of testing.
“It’s just so much cleaner. We don’t want to be messing around with pots and things like that, sending those off. Everyone can produce a fingerprint on demand, whereas someone may not be able to provide other samples.”
Michael Brown, Compliance Assistant
Just as importantly, the approach reflects how Sinewave wants to treat its people: with respect. It also supports the business commercially, as a growing number of the larger contracts Sinewave bids for now require the capacity to carry out drug testing.
Team Sinewave: Everyone Home Safe
Sinewave describes its culture through a simple idea the team calls Team Sinewave: looking out for one another so that everyone stays safe together. Fingerprint drug testing has become a natural part of that, sitting alongside the audits, assurances, and accreditations that already underpin the company’s approach to health and safety.
“One of the things that makes Sinewave so great is Team Sinewave, making sure everyone is safe together. The fingerprint drug testing really fits within our company values. It’s about making sure that everyone turns up to work and goes home from work in the same capacity.”
Michael Brown, Compliance Assistant
For Sinewave, safety is not a box to tick. It is the starting point for every decision, and fingerprint drug testing helps them maintain that standard across all sites.
To see how fingerprint drug testing could support safer, more efficient testing in your organisation, book a demonstration of the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Testing Solution. Our team can walk you through how the system works, how it fits into existing workplace drug testing policies, and how it can reduce disruption while protecting your people.
