COMMUNICABLE DISEASES - EMPLOYEES
Employees with a communicable disease will be allowed to perform their customary employment duties provided they are able to perform the essential functions of their position and their presence does not create a substantial risk of illness or transmission to students or other employees. The term “communicable disease” shall mean an infectious or contagious disease spread from person to person, or animal to person, or as defined by law.
Prevention and control of communicable diseases shall be included in the school district’s bloodborne pathogens exposure control plan. The procedures shall include scope and application, definitions, exposure control, methods of compliance, universal precautions, vaccination, post-exposure evaluation, follow-up, communication of hazards to employees and record keeping. This plan shall be reviewed annually by the superintendent.
The health risk to immunodepressed employees shall be determined by their personal physician. The health risk to others in the school district environment from the presence of an employee with a communicable disease shall be determined on a case-by-case basis by the employee’s personal physician, a physician chosen by the school district or public health officials.
An employee shall notify the superintendent when the employee learns the employee has a communicable disease. It shall be the responsibility of the superintendent, when the superintendent, upon investigation, has knowledge that a reportable communicable disease is present, to notify the Iowa Department of Public Health.
An employee who is at work and who has a communicable disease which creates a substantial risk of harm to a student, coworkers, or others at the workplace shall report the condition to the superintendent any time the employee is aware that the disease actively creates such risk.
Health data of an employee is confidential and it shall not be disclosed to third parties. Employee medical records shall be kept in a file separate from their personal file.
It shall be the responsibility of the superintendent to develop administrative regulations stating the procedures for dealing with employees with a communicable disease.
Adopted: Jan. 9, 1989
Reviewed: Feb. 10, 1997
March 12, 2001
December 19, 2005
June 20, 2011
July 11, 2016
Revised: November 16, 1998