Science teachers want TSC to pay them risk allowance
Science teachers through KUPPET want TSC (Teachers Service Commission) to pay them risk allowance
Science teachers through KUPPET want TSC (Teachers Service Commission) to pay them risk allowance.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) should give science teachers risk allowances, according to the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET).
Mr. Ronald Tonui, the assistant national treasurer, claimed that instructors faced several health risks while working with hazardous chemicals in laboratories while training learners in schools.
“Science teachers have contracted serious respiratory diseases owing to the exposure to chemicals during practical lessons in laboratories over the years and some have died as a result yet they are not compensated for the risks,” Mr. Tonui said.
He mentioned that some of the teachers had suffered injuries in laboratory mishaps, the majority of which go unreported.
The most impacted are those who teach physics and chemistry since they deal with electrical devices and substances that produce gases and are prone to explosions.
Numerous students have also sustained injuries during practical sessions, many of whom were burned to varying degrees and required hospital admission.
The medical facilities in the institutions are unable to handle the injuries that have been received, thus the sufferers must be brought to hospitals that are frequently dispersed throughout the community, particularly in rural areas.
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“In Uganda, science teachers are paid risk allowances, why is it that the same can not be paid to those in Kenya yet we have a better performing economy? It is time the country focuses on the welfare of the teachers who have suffered years in silence,” Mr. Tonui wondered.
All teachers in public schools, he said, should also be paid risk allowances by TSC owing to the frequent attacks by learners resulting in serious injuries and death.
“Going by the rate of the attacks in the learning institutions spread across the country with many cases going undocumented, there is a need for TSC to pay teachers risk allowances. It is a very serious matter in the institutions with rising cases of indiscipline and attacks,” Mr. Tonui said.
Education policies limit teachers on the nature of the discipline that can be meted to students with corporal punishment having been outlawed.
However, some of the institutions have been accused of entrenching corporal punishment on indisciplined students.
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