Helpful Articles & Resources

UFT Board of Ed Agreement - Article Ten: Safety & Health

In recongnition of the importance of employee safety and health, the Board agrees to provide the appropriate recognized standards of workplace sanitation, cleanliness, light, and noise control, adequate heating and ventilation.

BBP Exposure Procedure

The DOE Office of Occupational Safety and Health will provide information regarding post-exposure evaluation and follow-up procedures

Concussion Tool Kit for High School Coaches

CDC has introduced a multimedia tool kit, Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports, to help coaches of high school teams protect their athletes from concussion. Concussions are a type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by a blow or jolt to the head that can range from mild to severe and can disrupt the manner in which the brain normally functions.

Educational Articles

As more and more students begin using the Internet with the classroom curriculum, many educators are challenged with teaching students how to critically evaluate the content that they are reading. Do you love reading? Then, you're welcome to freely read articles on subjects such as: Black History, Disease Detectives, How DNA works, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pregnancy the FACTS, Structure of HIV, etc.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

UFT members are injured in school incidents-mostly assaults-every day. What are my rights if I am assaulted?

Memorandum of Agreement 2005-2006Time

Memorandum of Agreement 2005-2006Time & Tentative Contract Agreement 2005

Mercury

Broken thermometers are the cause of numerous calls to the Poison Center. Thermometers with a silver line contain elemental mercury. Thermometers with a red or blue liquid do NOT contain mercury. There is much misinformation about mercury, its various forms and its dangers. Three different types of mercury exist, varying in their levels of toxicity. They are elemental mercury, inorganic mercury and organic mercury.