EMPLOYEE INJURY PREVENTION GUIDELINES - PARTICIPATING IN STUDENT ACTIVITIES

• For liability reasons, for their own safety and that of others, and to reduce workers' compensation losses, employees are encouraged to refrain from participating in high-risk student games and activities.  Instead, they should supervise, coach, and instruct.

• Participating for short periods to demonstrate safe procedures may be appropriate; but beyond that, prudent practice dictates that employees withdraw from the immediate activity in favor of general surveillance and supervision.

• Supervision is most effective when prioritized by activity hazard level.

• Some examples of high-risk activities are softball, football, baseball, basketball, raquetball, tetherball, foot racing, sack or three-legged races, tag games, job-a-thons, tug-of-wars, ice and rolling skating, using swings and slides, climbing on jungle gyms, traversing horizontal ladders, using gymnastic equipment such as swing rings, swimming, diving and water sports, long jumping, high jumping, using slide poles, sitting in dunk tanks, driving dodge cars, donkey racing (carrying kids on their backs), and roller sports.