280.10 - EYE-PROTECTIVE DEVICES.
280.10 EYE-PROTECTIVE DEVICES.
1. a. Every student and teacher in any public or nonpublic
school shall wear industrial quality eye-protective devices at all
times while participating, and while in a room or other enclosed area
where others are participating, in any phase or activity of a course
which may subject the student or teacher to the risk or hazard of eye
injury from the materials or processes used in any of the following
courses:
(1) Vocational or industrial arts shops 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 metal or
other materials.
(d) Gas or electric arc welding.
(e) Repair or servicing of any vehicle while in the shop.
(f) Caustic or explosive materials.
(2) Chemical or combined chemical-physical laboratories involving
caustic or explosive chemicals or hot liquids or solids when risk is
involved.
b. Visitors to such shops and laboratories shall be furnished
with and required to wear the necessary safety devices while such
programs are in progress.
2. 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 participation in
the course and the registration of a student for the course may be
canceled for willful, flagrant, or repeated failure to observe the
above requirements.
3. The board of directors of each local public school district
and the authorities in charge of each nonpublic school shall provide
the safety devices required herein. Such devices may be paid for
from the general fund, but the board may require students and
teachers to pay for the safety devices and shall make them available
to students and teachers at no more than the actual cost to the
district or school.
4. "Industrial quality eye-protective devices", as used in
this section, means devices meeting American national standard,
practice for occupational and educational eye and face protection
promulgated by the American national standards institute, inc. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, § 280.20; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 280.10] Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 41, §249