Alaska Administrative Code
Title 18 - Environmental Conservation
Chapter 31 - Alaska Food Code
Article 3 - Management and Personnel
18 AAC 31.300 - Employee health

(1) each applicant to whom a conditional offer of employment is made and each employee reports each of the following conditions to the operator, including the date of onset, as it relates to diseases that are transmissible through food, if the employee or applicant has, or is diagnosed with, that condition:

(2) an employee or applicant who is experiencing a symptom of a disease transmissible by food as described in (1)(A) - (E) of this subsection is either excluded or restricted as listed in Table E of this section; and

TABLE E

EXCLUSION OR RESTRICTION REQUIREMENTS FOR SYMPTOMATIC

EMPLOYEES OR APPLICANTS

Symptom Exclusion or Restriction Removing

Exclusion

or

Restriction *Department

of

Environmental

Conservation

Approval

Needed to

Work? Establishments

Serving

Highly

Susceptible

Population All

Other

Establishments Vomiting Exclude Exclude When the

excluded

employee

has been

asymptomatic

for at least

24 hours. No Diarrhea Exclude Exclude When the

excluded

employee

has been

asymptomatic

for at least

24 hours. NoJaundice Exclude if the

onset occurred

within the last

seven days Exclude if the

onset occurred

within the last

seven daysWhen approval

is obtained

from the

Department

of Health. Yes, unless

medical

documentation

is provided to

the operator.Sore Throat

with Fever Exclude Restrict When the

employee

provides

written

medical

documentation

to the

operator. No Lesion

Containing

Pus Restrict Restrict When the

infected

wound or

boil is

properly

covered. No * An exclusion or restriction may be removed for any symptom if the excluded or restricted employee provides medical documentation to the operator that the condition is from a non-infectious condition and that the risk of transmitting a pathogenic microorganism is minimal.

(3) in addition to the requirements of (a) of this section, the operator contacts the department, verbally or electronically, within 24 hours after being notified that an employee or applicant has been diagnosed by a health practitioner as having a disease as described in (1)(F) - (J) of this subsection or is jaundiced; each notification must provide the date, name of the diagnosed disease, and the name and contact information of the food establishment reporting the diagnosed disease.