California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 4 - Environmental Health
Chapter 20 - Public Swimming Pools
Article 3 - Maintenance and Operation
Section 65541 - Health of Employees and Public Pool Users

Universal Citation: 22 CA Code of Regs 65541

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) No public pool employee having a communicable disease while in an infectious state shall work in any capacity involving contact with pool users, pool water, or the operation of the pool equipment and ancillary facilities at a public pool unless a current written statement is provided by a licensed physician as prescribed in subdivision (b).

(b) No public pool employee or pool user having a communicable disease while in an infectious state, including, but not limited to, Cryptosporidium, giardia, Legionnaires' disease, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, or while having any symptoms such as a cough, cold sore, or nasal or ear discharge or when wearing bandages, shall not enter public pool water unless the public pool employee or pool user submits a current written statement to the pool operator, signed by a licensed physician, confirming that the public pool employee or pool user does not present a health hazard to others using the public pool or ancillary facilities.

(c) If two or more lifeguards or pool users at a public pool report within 5 days of each other to the pool operator that they have had diarrhea, the pool operator shall report this to the enforcing agent.

1. Amendment of section heading, section and NOTE filed 10-14-2014; operative 1-1-2015 (Register 2014, No. 42).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 116035, 116050 and 131200, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 116040, 116043 and 116050, Health and Safety Code.

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