SAFETY IN THE WORK PLACE. The City and the BMA reaffirm their joint commitment to ensure safety and reasonable health in the work place and to maintain a continuous awareness of safety procedures and accident prevention guidelines. In order to reinforce these objectives, a Citywide Safety Coordinators Committee has been established to broaden the base of participation in safety activities. The Burbank Management Association (BMA) will have a representative on the Safety Coordinators Committee.
SAFETY IN THE WORK PLACE. A. It is the obligation of the District to provide safe working conditions for members of the unit and to correct verified unsafe working conditions in a timely manner. It is the obligation of each member of the unit to work in a safe manner and one that does not create hazards.
B. If the safety of a unit member or students is threatened by a real and present danger, a psychologist/counselor may use reasonable force as necessary, and to the extent authorized by law, to protect himself/herself from attack, to protect another person or property, to quell a disturbance threatening physical injury to others or to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects upon the person or within control of a pupil. Unit members shall immediately report incidents of battery or instances as referred to above in connection with their employment to their principal (or other immediate supervisor in the case of the District Office). The District will carry worker’s compensation insurance to provide protection for members of the unit battered/injured while in the course and scope of carrying out their assigned duties.
C. Pursuant to law the District shall inform the unit member of each pupil who has engaged in, or is reasonably suspected to have engaged in, any of the acts described in any of the divisions, except subdivision (h), of Education Code Section 48900 or in Sections 8900.2, 48900.3, 48900.4, or 48900.7 that the pupil engaged in, or is reasonably suspected to have engaged in, those acts. The District shall provide the information to the unit member based upon any records that the District maintains in its ordinary course of business, or receives from a law enforcement agency, regarding a pupil described in this section.
