403.01 - Employee Physical Examinations

The North Tama 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 North Tama County Community School 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 up to a maximum of $175.00. The school district will provide the standard examination form to be completed by the personal physician of the employee or 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.  

  

 

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.

I.C. Iowa Code                                      Description
 Iowa Code § 20                                     Collective Bargaining
Iowa Code § 279.8                                Directors - General Rules - Bonds of Employees
Iowa Code § 321.376                            Motor Vehicle Laws - License Authorization

I.A.C. Iowa Administrative Code           Description
281 I.A.C. 43.15                                   Transportation - Bus Driver Physical Fitness
281 I.A.C. 43.17                                   Transportation - Insulin Dependent Diabetics  

C.F.R. - Code of Federal Regulations     Description
29 C.F.R. § 1910.1030                           Labor - Bloodborne Pathogens
49 C.F.R. 391                                       Transportation - Driver Qualifications

Cross References:  403.03  Communicable Diseases - Employees
                                         403.03-R(1)  Communicable Diseases - Employees - Regulation
                                         403.03-E(1)  Communicable Diseases - Employees - Hepatitis B Vaccine Information and Record

Approved: 2/15/2016, 8/16/2021, 7/21/2025
Reviewed: 6/16/2025
Revised: 6/16/2025