Good health is important to job performance. Employees may be required to submit to a pre-employment physical examination after an offer of employment has been made and before the beginning of service. The district will provide the standard examination form to be completed by an appropriately licensed health care provider who performs the physical examination. If the district requires a physical examination, a written report of the physical examination shall be submitted to the district. The date by which any such physical examination report shall be submitted to the district shall be determined by the superintendent, but in no case shall be any less than five (5) business days prior to the first working day.
School bus drivers will be required to submit to a pre-employment physical examination and every two (2) years thereafter. School bus drivers will be required to present evidence of good health in the form of a physical examination report unless otherwise required by law or medical opinion.
Fitness-for-duty examinations may be required following an absence from work due to illness, if there is a reasonable belief that the employee is unable to perform the essential functions of the job, or if there is a reasonable belief that the employee poses a direct threat to the employee or others because of a health condition. A direct threat occurs when an individual poses a significant risk of substantial harm to him/herself or others, and the risk cannot be reduced below the direct threat level through reasonable accommodations. The district also reserves the right to request additional physical or mental evaluation as deemed by a licensed physician for job performance.
The cost of the initial examination will be paid by the employee. The cost of bus driver physicals will be paid by the school district up to the actual expense or designated limit for each required medical examination.
Failure to submit written evidence relative to the required medical examinations may be cause for withholding payment of salary. Refusal to undergo required physical examinations, or failure to provide evidence of physical examinations in a timely manner, will be considered grounds for termination of employment.
It is the responsibility of the superintendent to write an exposure control plan to eliminate or minimize district occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens. The plan for designated employees will include, but not be limited to, scope and application, definitions, exposure control, methods of compliance, and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up, communication of hazards to employees, and record keeping.
(June 9, 1980; June 15, 1992; June 19, 2006; April 18, 2011; June 18, 2012; January 19, 2015; June 10, 2019)