7. Employee Medical Issues and Examinations
E.7.01 - Testing for Communicable Diseases
Food service personnel shall comply with health requirements established by the city, county and state health authorities. Pre-employment, or later on-the-job testing of employees to detect the presence of HIV will not be done except in response to specific on-the-job exposures or under Court-enforced order under the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act.
Communicable diseases include, but are not limited to. measles, influenza, viral hepatitis-A (infectious hepatitis), viral hepatitis-B (serum hepatitis), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection) and AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis.
E.7.02 - Employee Physical Examinations
A medical examination may be required of any employee when, in the judgment of the immediate supervisor, after consultation with the Location Executive Officer (LEO) and the Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, the employee's condition interferes with the ability to perform job-related functions or may pose a direct threat to the health or safety of the employee or others. An employee may be suspended from employment with pay pending fitness for duty examination.
E.7.03 - Reasonable Accommodations
If it is determined that an employee poses a direct threat to the health or safety of him/herself or others or that the employee is not able to perform essential job-related functions, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources or designee shall ask the medical professional to determine what reasonable accommodations are available to reduce or eliminate the direct threat or enable the employee to perform job-related functions.
E.7.04 - Exposure to Blood-borne Pathogens
The Human Resources Department is responsible for identifying employees who serve in support positions such as food service or any other employees who can "reasonably anticipate occupational exposure to a blood borne pathogen." The System shall annually review, and modify as appropriate, the minimum exposure plan provided by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
E.7.05 - Immunization and Testing
The System shall offer Hepatitis "B" vaccination to those employees who can reasonably anticipate occupational exposure to a blood-borne pathogen. The System will provide for post-exposure testing as well as post-exposure Hepatitis "B" vaccination.
E.7.06 - Workers' Compensation
To qualify for workers' compensation benefits, the employee claiming occupational exposure must report the exposure to the immediate supervisor within 48 hour of the exposure.
LSCS Policy Manual Section adopted by the Board of Trustees on August 7, 2008