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) Career and technical education programs 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.
[C66, 71, 73, §280.20; C75, 77, 79, 81, §280.10]
2009 Acts, ch 41, §249; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §67; 2016 Acts, ch 1108, §64
Referred to in §280.31
Structure Iowa Code
Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 280 - UNIFORM SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS
Section 280.3 - Educational program — attendance center requirements.
Section 280.3A - Accredited nonpublic school child care programs.
Section 280.4 - Limited English proficiency — weighting.
Section 280.5 - Display of United States flag and Iowa state flag — pledge of allegiance.
Section 280.6 - Religious books.
Section 280.7 - Dental clinics.
Section 280.7A - Student eye care.
Section 280.8 - Special education.
Section 280.9 - Career education.
Section 280.9A - History and government required — voter registration.
Section 280.9B - Violence prevention curriculum.
Section 280.10 - Eye-protective devices.
Section 280.11 - Ear-protective devices.
Section 280.12 - School improvement advisory committee.
Section 280.13 - Requirements for interscholastic athletic contests and competitions.
Section 280.13A - Sharing interscholastic activities.
Section 280.13B - Recording and broadcast fees restricted.
Section 280.13C - Concussion and brain injury policies.
Section 280.14 - School requirements — administration.
Section 280.15 - Joint employment and sharing.
Section 280.16A - Epinephrine auto-injector supply.
Section 280.17 - Procedures for handling child abuse reports.
Section 280.17A - Procedures for handling dangerous weapons.
Section 280.17B - Students suspended or expelled for possession of dangerous weapons.
Section 280.18 - Student achievement goals.
Section 280.19 - Plans for at-risk children.
Section 280.19A - Alternative options education programs — disclosure of records.
Section 280.20 - Career and technical agriculture education.
Section 280.21 - Corporal punishment — burden of proof.
Section 280.21A - Leave — episode of violence.
Section 280.21B - Expulsion — weapons in school.
Section 280.22 - Student exercise of free expression.
Section 280.23 - Student health services.
Section 280.24 - Procedures for reporting drug or alcohol possession or use.
Section 280.25 - Information sharing — interagency agreements.
Section 280.26 - Intervention in altercations.
Section 280.27 - Reporting violence — immunity.
Section 280.28 - Harassment and bullying prohibited — policy — immunity.
Section 280.30 - High-quality school building emergency operations plans.