Code No. 403.1
Employee Physical Examinations
The Davis County Community School District believes good health is important to job performance. School bus drivers will present evidence of good health upon initial hire and every other year in the form of a physical examination report, unless otherwise required by law or medical opinion.
The cost of the initial examination will be paid by the district. The form indicating the employee is able to perform the duties, with or without reasonable accommodation, for which the employee was hired, must be returned prior to the performance of duties. The cost of bus driver renewal physicals will be paid by the school district. The school district will provide the standard examination form to be completed by a certified medical examiner for bus drivers.
Employees whose physical or mental health, in the judgment of the administration, may be in doubt will submit to additional examinations to the extent job-related and consistent with business necessity, when requested to do so, at the expense of the school district.
The district will comply with occupational safety and health requirements as applicable to its employees in accordance with law.
Employees identified, as having reasonably anticipated contact with blood or infectious materials, will receive the Hepatitis B vaccine or sign a written waiver stating that they will not take the vaccine.
Upon approval by the Director of Support Services, a bus driver may obtain the physical from a different doctor with equivalent payment made to that doctor.
Legal Reference: 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1030.
49 C.F.R. §§ 391.41 – 391.49.
Iowa Code §§ 20; 279.8; 321.376.
281 I.A.C. 43.15; 43.17.
Cross Reference: 400 Series Employees’ Health and Well-Being
Approved: August 16, 2004
Reviewed: March 20, 2006
Revised: September 17, 2018
Revised: June 17, 2019