4112.4/4212.4

Personnel — Certified and Non-Certified

Health Examinations

New Personnel

All new certified personnel shall submit to the Office of the Superintendent of Schools evidence of a physical examination obtained no earlier than six months prior to the date of employment and no later than thirty days after the date of employment.

Optional: All new staff with a risk for having latent TB infection shall also have baseline skin testing for tuberculosis at the time of employment, and the result recorded in the employee health record.

Employed Personnel

The Superintendent of Schools may require an employee to obtain a physical examination at any time.

Specific Procedures

1. Physical examination forms will be supplied by the Superintendent's office, and it is required that they be used in all instances.

2. Full and complete results of the physical examinations will be maintained in the administering doctor's office. Only a statement attesting to the individual's health and submitted by the examining doctor will be kept on file in the Superintendent's office.

3. Physical examinations may be administered by an individual's family physician and the District shall pay that portion of the cost which is equal to the cost of the examination administered by the District Physician. The remainder of the cost will be borne by the individual.

4. Physical examinations, when required by Board Policy, may be requested by an individual to be administered by the District physician and the expense shall be borne by the District. The request should be made to the Office of the Superintendent of Schools.

5. The cost of a physical examination required for an individual by the Superintendent of Schools shall be borne by the District.

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