STAFF HEALTH                                       File:  GBE

 

            As a condition of employment every new employee of the School Board including teachers, cafeteria workers, janitors and bus drivers, shall submit a certificate signed by a licensed physician, physician assistant or licensed registered nurse stating the employee appears free of communicable tuberculosis. Volunteers and student teachers may be required to provide such a certificate.

 

            Any employee who does not comply with this requirement will have violated the terms of employment, and is not entitled to compensation. Any new volunteer, or student teacher who begins his/her duties without having complied with this requirement may be removed from that assignment until the requirement is fulfilled. For the purposes of this policy, a new employee is designated as someone hired for the first time or rehired after a one-year absence.

 

            The School Board at its discretion may require a tuberculosis rescreening of all employees.

 

Contagious and Infectious Diseases

            While in that condition, persons suffering with a contagious or infectious disease may be excluded from his/her current assignment by the School Board.

 

Physical Exams for School Bus Drivers and for Car Drivers who Transport Students

            No person shall be employed as a bus or car driver unless they have a physical exam of the scope required by the Board of Education and provides the School Board the results of the exam on the form prescribed by the Board of Education.  Such exam and report may be provided by a licensed nurse practitioner.

 

            The School Board may also require alcohol and drug testing in accordance with Policy GDQ.         

 

Adopted:

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Legal Refs.:     Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, ¤¤ 22.1‑300, 22.1‑301, 22.1-178,

22.1-272, 54.1-2952.2, 54.1-2957.02.

 

Cross Ref.:      EBAB  Reporting of Possible Exposure to Viral Infections

                        EBBB Personnel Training–Viral Infections

GDQ   Drug and Alcohol Testing 

JHCC Communicable Diseases

JHCCA Student/Staff Bloodborne Contagious or Infectious Diseases

 

Rockingham County Public Schools Administrative Directive: Student/Staff Bloodborne Contagious or Infectious Diseases  AD-JHCCA-6/09

 

 

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