DBS CODE:  4147

DBS CODE:  4247

PERSONNEL – CERTIFICATED/NON-CERTIFICATED:

Employee Safety:

Employees are entitled to work under safe conditions.  To this end, employees will be provided necessary training in safety techniques and precautions.  The Board of Education and school administrators shall maintain in each facility a safe and healthy work place, safe equipment, proper materials, and shall establish and insist upon safe methods and practices at all times.

Eye Safety:

Principals shall require all personnel engaged in activities affected by the act (Eye Protective Devices 10-214a) to wear eye protective devices and receive copies of the regulations on the subject.  All necessary precautions should be taken to comply with this policy.

Use of Physical Force

Employees may use reasonable physical force as necessary to protect themselves from attack, to protect another person or property, to quiet a disturbance which threatens physical injury to others, or to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects.

Physical Assaults on Teachers, Administrators, Other School Personnel, and Students

Employees shall report, as soon as possible, assaults on them in connection with their employment to their Principal or other immediate supervisor who shall further report such assault to the local police.  The Principals or supervisor shall notify the Superintendent of the incident.

The employee may also, in his/her discretion, file a complaint with the local police.

The Superintendent shall maintain records of any assaults for required reports to the Commissioner of Education.

Legal Protection of Employer

As required by the general statutes, the Board of Education shall indemnify Board members and employees.

Legal Reference:  Connecticut General Statutes

10-214a Eye Protective Devices

10-233g Boards to report school violence.  Reports of principals to police authority.

10-235 Indemnification of teachers, board members and employees in damage suits; expenses of litigation.

10-236a Indemnification of educational personnel assaulted in the line of duty.

53a-18 Use of reasonable physical force.

Adopted:  May 24, 1982

Revised:  April 6, 2009