PROTECTIVE DEVICES REQUIRED

PROTECTIVE DEVICES REQUIRED

Every student and teacher in Washington High School who participates in any of the following courses must use required protective devices:

1. Vocational or industrial arts shops, Art, or laboratories involving experience with any of the following:

a. Hot molten metals.

b. Milling, sawing, turning, shaping, cutting, grinding, or stamping of any solid materials.

c. Heat treatment, tempering, or kiln firing of any material.

d. Gas or electric arc welding.

e. Repair or servicing any vehicle.

f. Caustic or explosive materials.

g. Machine operation that may suggest or imply use of safety devices.

2. Chemical or combined chemical-physical laboratories involving caustic or explosive chemical or hot liquids or solids when risk is involved.

Every student and teacher shall wear industrial quality eye protective devices at all times while participating and while in a room or other enclosed area when others are participating in any phase or activity of such course which may subject the student or teacher to the risk or hazard of eye injury from the materials or processes used in said course. Visitors to such shops and laboratories shall be furnished with and required to wear the necessary safety devices while such programs are in progress. It shall be the duty of the teacher or other person supervising the students in said courses to see that the above requirements are complied with. Any student failing to comply with such requirements may be temporarily suspended from participating in said course and the registration of a student for such a course may be canceled for willful flagrant or repeated failure to observe the above requirements.

Safety devices may be paid for from the general fund but the board may require students and teachers to pay for said devices and shall make them available to students and teachers at no more than the actual cost to the district.