Below we have listed all of the different trainings that are required of LEA's. Please familiarize yourself with these requirements.

Administrative Training
Behavioral Training
Educator Training
Emergency Preparedness Training
Health & Medical Training

Required Training - Administration

Building Rental and/or Use

Statute/Regulation: 53G-7-209, 210

Required Audience: Administrators

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such persons receive training upon initial employment and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Per 53G-7-210, training must be about implementing the provisions of 53G-7-209, and -210. For example, meaning of "civic center," proper uses of school property as a civic center, governmental immunity, the school's Building Rental and/or Use Policy, and fees the school may charge for use of its building.

Trainer Requirements: N/A

Charter Trust Land Council

Statute/Regulation: 53G-7-1203, -1205, -1206; R277-477

Required Audience: Board members; school's charter trust land council

Required Frequency: Annually

Required Content, Elements: The school's charter trust land council must be trained on the requirements in 53G-7-1203 (e.g., council meetings are open to the public; meeting information must be posted to school website one week before meeting; and meeting schedule for the year as well as certain contact information for council members and the annual report must be posted by principal to school website and front office by Oct. 20 of each year).

The Board must receive training on the requirements outlined in 53G-7-1206 (e.g charter trust land council must be established in accordance with 53G-7-1205; land trust funds must be used to implement a component of the school's student and teacher success plan; and charter trust land plan must be approved by the Board and school's authorizer).

Trainer Requirements: N/A Board provides training on 53G-7-1203 to the school's charter land trust council.

Board chair provides training on 53G-7-1206 to the Board.

In addition, the School LAND Trust Program (established under the USBE) shall provide training on the School LAND Trust Program and charter trust land councils to the Board and the school.

Training by the USBE for boards and councils can be found at here.

Employee Discrimination

Statute/Regulation: 42 USC 1981, 2000e-2, 12112, 2000ff-1; 20 USC 1681, 1684; 29 USC 621-634, 794

Required Audience: Employees with authority over other employees

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such employees receive training before exercising authority over other employees and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified, but should probably at least cover discrimination on the basis of all protected classes.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Fee Related Policies

Statute/Regulation: R277-407-15

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Annually, beginning January 1, 2020.

Required Content, Elements: The school's fee related policies. Training should be specific to each employee's job function.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified. USBE is required to provide ongoing training, informational materials, and model policies for LEAs to be able to use, however.

Fiscal Matters

Statute/Regulation: R277-113, 53G-7-401 et seq.

Required Audience: Employees who are involved in cash handling, donations and/or fundraising, financial reporting, purchasing and disbursement, or procurement (only employees involved in these functions have to be trained), Board Members, Audit Committee Members (some board members may also serve on the audit committee).

Required Frequency: Employees - annually. Board members and audit committee members - during on-boarding process or as soon as possible thereafter.

Required Content, Elements:

Employees:

The fiscal policies adopted by the school (budgeting, cash handling, donation/fundraising, financial reporting, purchasing and disbursement, and procurement); appropriate financial practices; necessary accounting procedures; and ethical financial practices. Trainings may have different components, specificity, and levels of complexity for public elementary and secondary schools.

The USBE is required to provide online training and resources for LEAS regarding the use and management of public funds and ethical practices for licensed Utah educators who manage, control, participate in fundraising, or spend public funds.

Board Members and Audit Committee:

The USBE is required to provide online training and informational materials for use by LEA governing boards in establishing their audit committees and internal audit programs in compliance with Utah Code § 53G-7-402, and LEAs must use this online training and the informational materials to train all board members and all audit committee members. There are two separate trainings, one for board members and one for audit committee members. The training must comply with Utah Code § 63G-22-103.

Trainer Requirements: The online trainings developed by the USBE can be found at this link. There is one training for board members and another for audit committee members.

GRAMA Records Officer Online Training

Statute/Regulation: 63G-2-108; 63A-12-110

Required Audience: Records Officer

Required Frequency: Annually

Required Content, Elements: Title 64G, Chapter 2, of the Government Records Access and Management Act and rules made thereunder; other legal and policy matters relating to responding to a public records request.

Trainer Requirements: The Division of Archives and Records Services provides the online training course here.

Harassment

Statute/Regulation: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including 42 USC 2000e et seq)

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Upon initial employment and annually thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Human Resource Management

Statute/Regulation: 53G-5-407(9); 17B-1-805

Required Audience: Employee or person assigned human resource management duties at the school

Required Frequency: Annually, prior to the beginning of each school year.

Required Content, Elements: Human resource management functions and responsibilities, including complying with federal and state employment law; administering compensation and benefits; and ensuring employee safety.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Information Technology Security

Statute/Regulation: R277-487

Required Audience: Employees, aides, and volunteers

Required Frequency: Annually

Required Content, Elements: Information technology security matters and issues; school's Information Technology Security Policy; school's Information Technology Systems Security Plan; and audits and e-discovery.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified by law, but school's policies and plans state school's IT Security Manager will provide the training.

Open and Public Meetings Act

Statute/Regulation: 52-4-104

Required Audience: Board members

Required Frequency: Annually

Required Content, Elements: Per 52-4-104, the requirements of the Open and Public Meetings Act.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified. The Office of the State Auditor has a video training available at https://training.auditor.utah.gov/.

Pledge of Allegiance

Statute/Regulation: 53G-10-304(3)(d)

Required Audience: Students

Required Frequency: At least annually.

Required Content, Elements: Participation in the Pledge of Allegiance is voluntary and not compulsory; and not only is it acceptable for someone to choose not to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance for religious or other reasons, but students should show respect for any student who chooses not to participate.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Protecting Student Constitutional Rights With Respect to Religion and Conscience

Specifically in connection with students not wanting to participate in a portion of curriculum or in an activity that would require the student to affirm or deny a religious belief or right of conscience or engage or refrain from engaging in a practice forbidden or required in the exercise of a religious right or right of conscience.

Statute/Regulation: 53G-10-202 et seq; 53G-10-402

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that employees receive training before beginning their work with students and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: The person to whom a request for waiver of participation in or substitution of another activity is to be directed; how notice is to be given to the parent of a minor secondary student who makes a request pursuant to an exercise of freedom of conscience or exercise of religious freedom under 53G-10-203 and -205; how appeals may be taken from a decision to require participation in any curriculum or activity after a request to either waive participation or allow substitution of another activity has been made by a parent, legal guardian, or secondary student, including suspension of participation requirements until a ruling on the appeal is issued; procedures whereby students are not compelled to participate in any curriculum or activity after a request to waive participation or allow substitution of another activity has been submitted unless it is determined that requiring the participation of that particular student is the least restrictive means necessary to achieve a specifically identified educational objective in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and procedures whereby any portion of any curriculum or activity that is repeatedly alleged to interfere with the rights of conscience or exercise of religious freedom of students, parents or legal guardians shall be evaluated to determine whether the educational objectives could be achieved by less intrusive means.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified, but the USBE is required to provide training materials for schools to use to train their employees on these issues.

School Personnel Giving Medical Recommendations to Parents or Guardians

Statute/Regulation: 53G-9-203

Required Audience: School personnel

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that personnel receive training upon initial employment and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Training must include what school personnel can and can't do as set forth in 53G-9-203. Except as provided in 53G-9-203(2) & (6) and 53G-9-604, the things school personnel can't do are as follows (to see what they can do refer to the statute):

recommend to a parent or guardian that a child take or continue to take a psychotropic medication;

require that a student take or continue to take a psychotropic medication as a condition for attending school;

recommend that a parent or guardian seek or use a type of psychiatric or psychological treatment for a child;

conduct a psychiatric or behavioral health evaluation or mental health screening, test, evaluation, or assessment of a child, except where this conflicts with the IDEA; or

make a child abuse or neglect report to authorities, including DCFS, solely or primarily on the basis that a parent or guardian refuses to consent to (1) a psychiatric, psychological, or behavioral treatment for a child, including the administration of a psychotropic medication to a child; or (2) a psychiatric or behavioral health evaluation of a child.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Staff Code of Conduct Policy

Statute/Regulation: 63G-7-301

Required Audience: "Staff members," which for this training purpose means an employee, contractor, or volunteer with unsupervised access to students.

Required Frequency: Within 10 days of beginning employment with the school and annually thereafter. For staff members who are employed by the school at the time of the intial adoption of this policy, training must occur prior to the first day of the school year.

Required Content, Elements: Training must cover the school's Staff Code of Conduct Policy. All staff members must annually sign a statement acknowledging that the staff member has received the training and has read and understands the Staff Code of Conduct Policy.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified other than "the School" will provide the training.

Student Data Activities Prohibited Without Prior Written Consent

Statute/Regulation: 53E-9-203

Required Audience: Teachers and administrators

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such personnel receive training upon initial employment and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Training must cover implementation of the requirements set forth in 53E-9-203. For example, not administering certain surveys, exams, tests, or evaluations without obtaining prior written parental consent; giving the required written notice to parents before seeking parental consent; application of the two week minimum notification period; and recognizing that students are allowed to spontaneously express sentiments or opinions otherwise protected from disclosure under 53E-9-203..

Trainer Requirements: Board provides training.

Student Data Privacy, Security, and Records

Statute/Regulation: R277-487; 53E-9-204; 53E-9-301 (et seq.)

Required Audience: Employees, aides, and volunteers who are authorized by the LEA to have access to education records as defined in FERPA; educators

Required Frequency: Employees, aides, and volunteers - annually.

NOTE: Schools are required to have all employees who are authorized to have access to education records to sign a statement certifying that they have received the training and that they understand student privacy requirements. These signed statements must be provided to the School's Board.

Educators - additional training prior to re-licensure.

Required Content, Elements: Employees, aides, and volunteers who are authorized to have access to education records -

Student data privacy; confidentiality of student data, including PII and student performance data.

Student privacy laws, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA); Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA); Utah's student privacy and data protection laws in Title 53E, Chapter 9 and rule R277-487; confidentiality of student data; LEA's required student privacy training; confidentiality of PII and student performance data.

School policies, such as the School's Student Data Privacy and Security Policy, Data Governance Plan, and FERPA policy and procedures.

Educators - beginning in the 2018-19 school year, educators shall complete the student data privacy and security training developed for educators by the USBE as a condition of re-licensure.

Trainer Requirements: Board shall provide the training. The USBE has provided some power point slides and videos for schools to use for this training if they want. Also, the FERPA/Student Data Privacy Section in the annual online training provided by HR probably already satisfies this training topic. Schools would still need to have their employees sign the required statement, however, unless the signed statement is somehow handled electronically through HR's annual online training.

The additional training for educators as a condition of their licensure will be provided by the USBE.

Student Searches

Statute/Regulation: R277-615-4(5)

Required Audience: Appropriate classes of employees (so, probably employees who have authority to conduct student searches)

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such employees receive training before beginning their work with students and as needed thereafter..

Required Content, Elements: Fair and consistent implementation of the school's student search policies.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Test/Assessment Administration and Ethics

Statute/Regulation: R277-404-5; R277-515-4(2)(b)(v)(D); 53E-4-311(3)

Required Audience: Educators, administrators, appropriate paraprofessionals, standardized assessment administrators, and proctors.

Required Frequency: Schools must provide educators, administrators, assessment administrators, and proctors annual training concerning guidelines and procedures for statewide assessment administration, including educator responsibility for assessment and security and proper professional practices.

Other training frequency for educators and paraprofessionals is not specified, but it should probably be annually as well.

Required Content, Elements: For educators - how to implement the assessment system;

For educators and appropriate Para pros -requirements of assessment administration ethics; and how to use statewide assessment results effectively to inform student instruction;

For educators, administrators, assessment administrators, and proctors - guidelines and procedures for statewide assessment administration, including educator responsibility for assessment security and proper professional practices.

The Standard Test Administration and Testing Ethics Policy shall be used in providing training for all assessment administrators and proctors.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Title I (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)

Statute/Regulation: 20 USC 6301 et seq.; 20 USC 6318

Required Audience: Teachers, specialized instructional support personnel, principals, and other schools leaders and staff; parents of participating children

Required Frequency: Not specified, but should be as often as required by the LEA's Plan adopted pursuant to 20 USC 6312.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Title IX; Sexual Harassment; Discrimination on Basis of Sex; Sexual Violence

Statute/Regulation: Title IX (20 USC 1681 et seq; 34 CFR 106); OCR Letters/Guidance

Required Audience: The school's Title IX Coordinator, Investigator, Decision-Maker, and Facilitator of Informal Resolution Process; the school's regular employees (training for regular employees is not the same or as extensive as the training for the positions mentioned above)

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that the Title IX Coordinator, Investigator, Decision-Maker, and Facilitator of Informal Resolution Process receive training upon assignment to such positions, that regular employees receive training upon employment, and that all such individuals receive additional training as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Title IX Coordinator, Investigator, Decision-Maker, and Facilitator of Informal Resolution Process must receive sexual harassment training that covers the applicable definition of sexual harassment; the scope of the school's educational program and activities; how to conduct a sexual harassment investigation and grievance process including hearings, appeals, and informal resolution processes, as applicable; and how to serve impartially, including by avoiding prejudgment of the facts at issue, conflicts of interest, and bias. Investigators must receive training on issues of relevance so that they can create an investigative report that fairly summarizes relevant evidence. Training materials must not rely on sex stereotypes and must promote impartial investigations and adjudications of formal complaints of sexual harassment.

Training requirements for regular employees is not specified, but should probably cover Title IX compliance requirements and applicable state and federal laws; and how to identify, stop, prevent, and report sexual harassment and violence and discrimination based on sex. The USBE has a video training that schools may use to satisfy the training requirement for regular employees. It can be found at https://youtu.be/Xxr2Oh2Qp7g (Links to an external site.).

Trainer Requirements: Not specified. However, in 2020, State Risk Management in cooperation with the USBE and the AG's office conducted virtual trainings for Title IX Coordinators, Decision-Makers, and Facilitators of Informal Resolution Process. These trainings were recorded and are available for viewing.

State Risk Management provides investigator training for their client schools. Schools not insured with State Risk Management can find investigator training at https://www.bricker.com/events/title-ix-regulations-training-k-12-57800 (Links to an external site.) (this includes two levels of training, both of which must be completed).

Required Training - Behavioral

Arrest Reporting Policy and Ethics Policy

Statute/Regulation: R277-516-7(3)

Required Audience: Non-licensed employees, volunteers, and board members

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such persons receive training upon initial employment or volunteering and as needed thereafter. It is also recommended that licensed employees receive this training as well.

Required Content, Elements: Per R277-516-7(3), training must cover the self-reporting provisions in the school's Arrest Reporting Policy and the ethical behavior requirements in the school's Ethics Policy.

Trainer Requirements: Board provides training.

Bullying, Cyber Bullying, Hazing, Abusive Conduct, and Retaliation

This training complements the LEA's suicide prevention program for students and suicide prevention training for licensed educators

Statute/Regulation: R277-613; 53G-9-601 et seq; 53G-9-607(1)(a)

Required Audience: Employees, students, and volunteers

Required Frequency: School determines how often to provide training. However, students, employees, or volunteer coaches participating in a public school sponsored athletic program, both curricular and extracurricular, or extracurricular club or activity, shall participate in bullying, cyber bullying, hazing, and harassment prevention training prior to participation in the athletic program and at least every 3 years afterwards.

Required Content, Elements: Training must be specific to:
Overt aggression that may include physical fighting such as punching, shoving, kicking, and verbal threatening behavior, such as name calling, or both physical and verbal aggression or threatening behavior;
Relational aggression or indirect, covert, or social aggression, including rumor spreading, intimidation, enlisting a friend to assault a child, and social isolation;
Sexual aggression or acts of a sexual nature or with sexual overtones;
Cyber-bullying, including use of email, web pages, text messaging, instant messaging, three-way calling or messaging or other electronic means for aggression inside or outside of school;
Civil rights violations, appropriate reporting and investigative procedures. This includes bullying, cyber-bullying, hazing, and harassment based upon the students' actual or perceived identities and conformance or failure to conform with stereotypes; and
Awareness and intervention skills, such as social skills training for students and staff, including aides, custodians, kitchen and lunchroom workers, secretaries, paraprofessionals, and coaches.
The USBE must provide training opportunities or materials or both for school employees .

Trainer Requirements: Trainers must be qualified to give the training (no definition of "qualified" is provided, however).

Schools may collaborate with the UHSAA to develop and provide the training to students, employees, or volunteer coaches participating in a public school sponsored athletic program or extracurricular club or activity.

Crisis Intervention

Statute/Regulation: R277-609-4(3)(h)(i)

Required Audience: Appropriate school personnel (personnel who are designated and authorized to participate in student restraint)

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such persons receive training upon initial employment and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Special Education

Statute/Regulation: Individuals with Disabilities Act (20 USC 1400 et seq; 34 CFR 300, 303); USBE Special Education Rules; Every Student Succeeds Act

Required Audience: Employees who are responsible for providing special education services/instruction to students

Required Frequency: Annually

Required Content, Elements: All staff - child find obligation and awareness of observed academic or social/emotional behaviors that might suggest a suspected disability; effectively implementing a continuum of behavioral interventions and supports.

Those who collect or use student PII - the State's policies and procedures in USBE SER IV.X and 34 CFR 99; academic and social behavior instruction.

Para educators (when used to carry out Part B of the IDEA) - USBE Para educator Standards.

Targeted training for persons working with students with specific and individual needs for academic and social behavior instruction.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Student Conduct and Discipline

Statute/Regulation: R277-609, 608; 53G-8-202 et seq

Required Audience: Employees with authority to discipline students

Required Frequency: Annually (recommended that employees receive such training prior to their working with students).

Required Content, Elements: School's Student Conduct and Discipline Policy and Plan; prevention of hazing, bullying, cyber-bullying, discipline, emergency safety interventions, and harassment among school employees and students.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Required Training - Educator

Educator Evaluation Data

Statute/Regulation: R277-487-6

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Not specified

Required Content, Elements: Training should cover the confidential nature of employee evaluations and the importance of securing evaluations and records. This should include reviewing R277-487-6.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Electronic Device/Resources Policy

Statute/Regulation: R277-495-5

Required Audience: Employees and students

Required Frequency: Annually - within the first 45 days of each school year.

Required Content, Elements: The training must be a school-wide or an in-classroom training that covers:
(a) the contents of the school's Electronic Device or Resources Policy;
(b) the importance of digital citizenship;
(c) conduct and discipline related consequences for violating the school's Electronic Device or Resources Policy;
(d) the school's Student Conduct and Discipline Policy (generally); and
(e) the benefits of connecting to the Internet and utilizing the school's internet filters, while on school premises.
Schools that allow employees and/or students any use of their personal electronic devices at school must also cover as part of the training the specific rules governing the permissible and restricted uses of personal electronic devices in a classroom.
Extra Note: Each educator in the school that allows the use of a personal electronic device in the classroom must also clearly communicate to parents and students the conditions under which the use of a personal electronic device is allowed.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

LEA-Specific Educator License Trainings

Statute/Regulation: R277-301

Required Audience: Educators with LEA-specific educator licenses

Required Frequency: Within first year of employment with LEA-specific educator license.

Note: An educator with an LEA-specific educator licenses in special education must receive his/her special education law training within the first month of the educator's employment under that license.

Required Content, Elements: Educator ethics; classroom management and instruction; basic special education law and instruction; and the Utah Effective Teaching Standards described in R277-530.

Trainer Requirements: LEA is to provide the training.

The special education law training for educators with an LEA-specific educator license in special education must be the training recommended by the state Superintendent.

Utah Educator Professional Standards

Statute/Regulation: R277-515-7

Required Audience: Licensed educators

Required Frequency: Annually

Required Content, Elements: The Utah Educator Professional Standards described in Rules R277-515 and 516.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Required Training - Emergency Preparedness

Emergency and Fire Drills

Statute/Regulation: R277-400-15A-5-202.5(2)(b)(i)

Required Audience: Employees and students

Required Frequency: Elementary and Secondary Schools:
No later than October 1 each year, schools must have at least one annual drill for school emergencies in addition to the emergency drills set forth below.

Elementary Schools:
During school year, schools shall conduct an emergency drill at least once each month during school time. Fire drills should occur every other month, with the first fire drill in the first 10 days of the school year. In the months schools do not do a fire drill, they should alternate between doing one of the following drills/practices: shelter in place; earthquake; lock down or lock out for violence; bomb threat; civil disturbance; flood; hazardous materials spill; utility failure; wind or other types of severe weather; shelter and mass care for natural and technological hazards; parent and student reunification; or an emergency drill appropriate for school location.

Secondary Schools*:
Schools shall have at least one fire drill every two months, for a total of four fire drills during the nine-month school year. The first fire drill shall be within 10 school days after the beginning of classes. The third fire drill, weather permitting, shall be conducted 10 school days after the beginning of the next calendar year. The second and fourth fire drill may be substituted by a security or safety drill to include shelter in place, earthquake drill, or lock down for violence. If inclement weather causes school to miss the 10-day deadline for the third fire drill, the school shall perform the third fire drill as soon as practicable after the missed deadline.

Required Content, Elements: Fire drills shall include the complete evacuation of all persons from the school building or the portion of the building used for educational purposes.
*Important Note: Schools that include both elementary and secondary grades in the school shall comply with the elementary fire/emergency drill requirements.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Emergency Preparedness/Response

Statute/Regulation: R277-400-53G-4-402(18); 29 CFR 1910.38

Required Audience: Employees and students

Required Frequency: Employees - annually. Students - not specified, but probably annually.
Extra FYI - Schools must designate an Emergency Preparedness/Emergency Response week each year before April 30 which shall have activities that may include: community, student, and teacher awareness; emergency preparedness or response training; or other activities as outlined in R277-400-7 and -8.

Required Content, Elements: Employees - employees' roles, responsibilities, and priorities in the school's emergency response/preparedness plan.
Students - emergency preparedness training appropriate to their ages in rescue techniques, first aid, safety measures appropriate for specific emergencies, and other emergency skills.

Trainer Requirements: Not Specified

Emergency Safety Interventions

(Seclusionary timeouts, physical restraint and school's policies related thereto - for regular Ed and Special Ed students)

Statute/Regulation: R277-609-4(3)(h)(ii)-(iii); R277-609-7; R277-608-4

Required Audience: Appropriate school personnel (personnel who are designated and authorized to participate in student restraint)

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such employees receive training before beginning their work with students and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified, but it is recommended that training include appropriate use of seclusionary time out or physical restraint when a student presents an immediate danger to self or others; safe use of emergency safety interventions and release criteria; and effective alternatives to emergency safety interventions.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified, but the USBE is required to provide LEAs with technical assistance in training employees in the appropriate use of physical force and emergency safety interventions to the extent of resources available.

Fire Extinguishers

Statute/Regulation: R614-1-4(A)(3); 29 CFR 1910.157

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Upon initial employment and at least annually thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: General principles of fire extinguisher use and the hazards involved with incipient stage fire fighting.
For those employees designated to use fire fighting equipment as part of an emergency action plan, training in the use of the appropriate equipment.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Fire Hazards and Prevention

Statute/Regulation: R614-1-4(A)(3); 29 CFR 1910.39

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Upon initial employment and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Fire hazards to which employees are exposed. The portions of the school's fire prevention plan necessary for self-protection.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Hazardous Chemicals

Statute/Regulation: R614-1-4(A)(3); 29 CFR 1910.1200

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Upon initial employment and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area.

Required Content, Elements: The requirements of 29 CFR 1910.1200, any operations in work area where hazardous chemicals are present, and the location and availability of the written hazard communication program, including the required list(s) of hazardous chemicals and safety data sheets. Training must also include:
Methods and observations that may be used to detect presence or release of hazardous chemicals at school;
The physical, health, simple asphyxiation, combustible dust, and pyrophoric gas hazards, as well as hazards not otherwise classified, of the chemicals at school;
The measures employees can take to protect themselves from these hazards, including specific procedures the school has implemented to protect employees from exposure to hazardous chemicals, such as appropriate work practices, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment to be used; and
The details of the hazard communication program developed by the school, including an explanation of the labels received on shipped containers and the workplace labeling system used by the school; the safety data sheet, including the order of information and how employees can obtain and use the appropriate hazard information.
Information and training may cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Personal Protective Gear

Statute/Regulation: R614-1-4(A)(3); 29 CFR 1910.132

Required Audience: Employees that are required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) due to hazards present in workspace (such as those who have risk of exposure to blood or other body fluids)

Required Frequency: Prior to performing work requiring the use of PPE. Retraining of affected employees is required when (1) changes in the workplace render previous training obsolete; (2) changes in the types of PPE to be used render previous training obsolete; or (3) inadequacies in an affected employee's knowledge or use of assigned PPE indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite understanding or skill.

Required Content, Elements: Training should cover at least the following: when wearing PPE is necessary, what PPE is necessary, how to property wear and adjust PPE, the limitations of PPE, and, the proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of PPE.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Required Training - Health & Medical

Administration of Asthma Medication (stock albuterol)

Statute/Regulation: 26-41-101 et seq

Required Audience: Teachers or other school employees who volunteer to become a qualified adult

Required Frequency: Each primary and secondary school in the state shall make initial and annual refresher training regarding the storage and emergency use of stock albuterol available to a teacher or school employee who volunteers to become a qualified adult.

Required Content, Elements: Per 26-41-104.1(2), the training must include (1) techniques for recognizing symptoms of asthma emergency; (2) standards and procedures for the storage and emergency use of stock albuterol; (3) emergency follow-up procedures, and contacting, if possible, the student's parent; and (4) written materials covering the information required above.

Trainer Requirements: Training must be provided by the Utah Department of Health.

Administration of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors

Statute/Regulation: 26-41-101 et seq

Required Audience: Teachers or other school employees who volunteer to become a qualified adult

Required Frequency: Each primary and secondary school in the state shall make initial and annual refresher training available to any teacher or other school employee who volunteers to become a qualified adult.

Required Content, Elements: Per 26-41-104(2), training must include (1) techniques for recognizing symptoms of anaphylaxis; (2) standards and procedures for the storage and emergency use of epinephrine auto-injectors; (3) emergency follow-up procedures, including calling 911 number and contacting, if possible, the student's parent and physician; and (4) written materials covering the information stated above.

Trainer Requirements: Training must be provided by the school nurse, or other person qualified to provide such training, designated by the medical director of the local health department or the local emergency medical services director.

Administration of Glucagon

Statute/Regulation: 53G-9-504

Required Audience: School personnel who volunteer to be trained in the administration of glucagon

Required Frequency: A public school shall, within a reasonable time after receiving a glucagon authorization, train two or more school personnel who volunteer to be trained in the administration of glucagon. Frequency after initial training is not specified.

Required Content, Elements: Per 53G-9-504, training must include: (1) techniques for recognizing the symptoms that warrant the administration of glucagon; (2) standards and procedures for the storage and use of glucagon; (3) other emergency procedures, including calling 911 and contacting, if possible, the student's parent or guardian; and (4) written materials covering the information stated above.

Trainer Requirements: Training must be provided by the school nurse or another qualified, licensed medical professional.

Administration of Medication

Statute/Regulation: 53G-9-502

Required Audience: Employees

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that initial training be provided before designated employees administer medication and refresher training be provided on an annual basis.

Required Content, Elements: No specified training content.

Trainer Requirements: Training must be provided by school nurse.

Administration of Seizure Rescue Medication

Statute/Regulation: 53G-9-505

Required Audience: Each school employee who volunteers to receive training in the administration of seizure rescue medication

Required Frequency: A public school shall, after receiving a seizure rescue authorization, provide initial and annual refresher training to each school employee who volunteers to become trained.

Required Content, Elements: Per 53G-9-505, the Dept. of Health, with input from the USBE, must develop a training program that includes: (1) techniques to recognize symptoms that warrant the administration of seizure rescue medication; (2) standards and procedures for the storage of a seizure rescue medication; (3) procedures, in addition to administering seizure rescue medication, in the event that a student requires administration of the seizure rescue medication, including calling 911 and contacting the student's parent or legal guardian; (4) an assessment to determine if an individual is competent to administer a seizure rescue medication; (5) an annual refresher training component; and (6) written materials describing the information stated above.

Trainer Requirements: Training must be provided by a school nurse or a licensed health care professional.

Bloodborne Pathogens

Statute/Regulation: R614-1-4(A)(3); 29 CFR 1910.1030

Required Audience: Employees who have exposure to blood or other bodily fluids as part of their job.

Required Frequency: Prior to engaging in work activities that involve exposure to blood or other bodily fluids and annually thereafter.
Additional training should be provided when changes to tasks or procedures (or new tasks or procedures) are implemented that affect employees' exposure.

Required Content, Elements: At a minimum the training must include:
- A copy of 29 CFR 1910.1030;
- A general explanation of the following: epidemiology and symptoms of bloodborne diseases; modes of transmission of bloodborne pathogens; school's exposure control plan and the means by which employees can obtain a copy of the written plan; appropriate methods for recognizing tasks and other activities that may involve exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials; use and limitations of methods that will prevent or reduce exposure including appropriate engineering controls, work practices, and PPE; basis for selection of PPE; procedure to follow if an exposure incident occurs, including the method of reporting the incident and the medical follow-up that will be made available; and signs and labels and/or color coding required by 29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(1);
- Information on the following: types, proper use, location, removal, handling, decontamination and disposal of PPE; hepatitis B vaccine, including information on its efficacy, safety, method of administration, the benefits of being vaccinated, and that the vaccine and vaccination will be offered free of charge; appropriate actions to take and persons to contact in an emergency involving blood or other potentially infectious materials; and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up that the school is required to provide for an employee following an exposure incident;
- An opportunity for interactive questions and answers with the person conducting the training session.

Trainer Requirements: Person conducting training shall be knowledgeable in the required subject matter covered by the training as it relates to the workplace.
NOTE: Bloodborne Pathogens is covered in the annual online training provided by HR.

Child Sexual Abuse, Molestation, and Human Trafficking Prevention and Awareness

Statute/Regulation: 62A-4a-403; 53E-6-701; 53G-9-207

Required Audience: All employees; parents/guardians of elementary school students

Required Frequency: For employees, upon initial employment and every other year thereafter. For parents/guardians of elementary school students, every other year.
Coaches must complete the training prior to the start of any coaching.

Required Content, Elements: Per 53G-9-207, schools must use the instructional materials approved by the USBE to provide the training topics described in 53G-9-207(3)(a).

Trainer Requirements: Providers approved by the USBE (as of 1-14-20 the providers are):
(1) 3Strands Global Foundation (contact Jacob Thompson at jacobt@3sgf.org or 801-719-4639); and
(2) Refugee & Immigrant Center Asian Association of Utah (contact Allison Smith at allison.smith@aau-slc.org or 801-990-9476).
https://www.schools.utah.gov/prevention/childsexualabuse for info on training materials.
https://www.3strandsglobalfoundation.org/protect-login for parent training materials.

Both providers provide training for free.

Concussion and Head Injury

Statute/Regulation: R277-614; 26-53-101 et seq

Required Audience: Coaches, employees, teachers, representatives, nurses, and volunteers that supervise a school's sports team or sporting event

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that such persons receive training prior to supervising school sports teams or sporting events and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Traumatic head injuries (including how to identify students' traumatic head injuries), responding to suspected student injuries, providing notice to parents, and how to comply with law in this area.
School nurses are required to have training in the evaluation and management of a concussion, as funding allows.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

CPR, First Aid

Statute/Regulation: USBE

Required Audience: Health, PE, and Driver's Ed teachers; coaches

Required Frequency: Prior to licensing and as needed to maintain certification and/or within the time frames adopted by the LEA.

Required Content, Elements: Training must be through an approved or recognized program which complies with USBE requirements.
Extra FYI:
R392-200-9(1)(a) requires that at least two designated individuals be on site that have a current Red Cross basic first-aid and CPR certificate or equivalent training approved by the LEA.
In addition, R392-200-9(1) (e) requires that in high risk injury areas of the school, including shops, labs, playgrounds, gyms, and places where theater props or scenery are built, the instructor possess at a minimum a Red Cross basic first-aid certificate (or equivalent as determined by the LEA) and be on site at all times when classes are being held. Community level training is adequate and the certification is good for two years.

Trainer Requirements: Training must be through an approved or recognized program that complies with USBE requirements.

Protecting Students with Disabilities

Statute/Regulation: R277-474; 53G-10-205

Required Audience: Employees who are responsible for providing instruction to students

Required Frequency: Not specified, but it is recommended that employees receive training before beginning their work with students and as needed thereafter.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified

Sex Education Instruction

Statute/Regulation: R277-474; 53G-10-205

Required Audience: Educators with responsibility for any aspect of sex education instruction.
Educators in general.

Required Frequency: All newly hired or newly assigned educators with responsibility for any aspect of sex education instruction shall attend state-sponsored professional development regarding sex education instruction within the first year of their employment or assignment. Thhis could include, for example, health, science, and consumer science teachers.
LEAs shall provide training similar to the state-sponsored training above at least once during every three years of employment for Utah educators.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified

Trainer Requirements: USBE provides professional development for educators regarding sex education instruction and schools provide a training similar to the state's.

Underage Drinking and Substance Abuse Prevention

Statute/Regulation: 53G-10-406; R277-910

Required Audience: Students in grades 4 or 5; 7 or 8; and 9 or 10.

Required Frequency: Annually. Schools must offer the underage drinking and substance abuse prevention program each school year to each student in grades 4 or 5; grades 7 or 8; and grades 9 or 10.

Required Content, Elements: Per 53G-10-406(1)(e), the program must be aimed at preventing underage consumption of alcohol and underage use of electronic cigarette products; be delivered by methods that engage students in storytelling and visualization; address the behavioral risk factors associated with underage drinking and use of electronic cigarette products; and provide practical tools to address the dangers of underage drinking and use of electronic cigarette products.
School must report to the Superintendent annually regarding the general participation and deployment of the underage drinking and substance abuse prevention program. Report must be made via the Annual Assurances Document described in R277-108 and shall include: (1) if program was offered to students each school year in grades 4 or 5, 7 or 8, and in grades 9 or 10; (2) name of the course where the program was offered including if it was offered as a stand-alone course; and (3) if the instructor has attended the one time training, including online state level training for the underage drinking and substance abuse prevention program.

Trainer Requirements: Program providers must be qualified by the USBE. USBE will only qualify those providers that meet the requirements in R277-910-2.
Currently, Botvin LifeSkills Training has been approved by the USBE. See www.lifeskillstraining.com.

Youth Suicide Prevention - For Employees

Statute/Regulation: 53G-9-704

Required Audience: Licensed employees

Required Frequency: Minimum of two hours of professional development training on youth suicide prevention every three years.

Required Content, Elements: Not specified

Trainer Requirements: Not specified, but the USBE is required to develop sample materials to be used by schools for professional development training on youth suicide. Currently, licensed employees can take the training through a Canvas course provided by the USBE. The training is available at https://www.schools.utah.gov/prevention/suicide?mid=3859&tid=4.

Youth Suicide Prevention Program - For Students

Statute/Regulation: R277-620; 53G-9-702

Required Audience: Elementary Students (K-5 and grade 6 if associated middle or junior high school does not include grade 6)
Secondary Students (7-12 and grade 6 if a middle or junior high school includes grade 6)

Required Frequency: Not specified

Required Content, Elements: Per 53G-9-702(2), the training must address:
Elementary and Secondary Students:
Life-affirming education, including the concepts of resiliency, healthy habits, self-care, problem solving, and conflict resolution; methods of strengthening the family; and methods of strengthening a youth's relationships in the school and community.
Secondary Students:
Prevention of youth suicide; decreasing the risk of suicide among youth who are: (A) not accepted by family for any reason, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning youth or (B) suffer from bullying; youth suicide intervention; and postvention for family, students, and faculty.
Schools must also consider coordinating its suicide prevention program with the prevention of bulling and hazing (53G-9-601) and prevention of underage drinking and substance abuse programs (53G-10-406). Suicide prevention program must also include provisions ensuring school promptly communicates with parents/guardians of students who threaten suicide or are involved in a bullying, cyber-bullying, hazing, abusive conduct, or retaliation incident (53G-9-604). Per 62A-15-103(3)(b)(vi), program should include firearm safety packets if the Div. of Substance Abuse and Mental Health provides such packets to the school. If provided to school, packets should be given by school to parents, free of charge.

Trainer Requirements: Not specified, but the USBE, in collaboration with the Utah Department of Health and state suicide prevention coordinator, is required to establish model youth suicide prevention programs for LEAs that include training and resources. Resources and program options can be found at https://www.schools.utah.gov/prevention/suicide?mid=3859&tid=3.