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District staff-safety report flags student-to-staff injuries and asks for deeper review
Summary
District staff presented three years of accident reports, said the majority of student-to-staff incidents involve highly impacted students and scheduled a deeper special-education report from Director Jenny Ryner in February to examine trends and remedies.
Susan presented the district’s approach to workplace-safety training and the employee accident-report process, noting reports are filed with supervisors and tracked centrally so the safety committee can seek trends and remedies.
She told the board the majority of student-to-staff injuries “are … with our most … highly impacted students” and said the district will ask Director of Special Services Jenny Ryner to present a fuller report at the February meeting so the board can review programmatic responses and supports.
District staff described the safety committee process (led by facilities supervisor Chuck Loch), training requirements (annual online 'public school works' modules and role-specific training) and how building principals funnel reports to the district spreadsheet for analysis. Board members asked whether increases reflected reporting changes; staff said reporting practices can vary and committed to additional context and trend analysis in the next presentation.
Next steps: Jenny Ryner will present an expanded special-education and programmatic review at the February meeting; the board asked staff to surface recommended mitigations tied to budget implications if additional resources are required.
