Florida Administrative Code
69 - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
69K - Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services
Chapter 69K-17 - FEES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
Section 69K-17.0035 - Communicable Disease Education Required for Operational Personnel

(1) This rule implements Section 497.162, F.S.

(2) "Operational Personnel" subject to the communicable disease course required under Section 497.162, F.S., shall be those unlicensed staff of any funeral establishment, direct disposal establishment, cinerator facility, removal service, refrigeration facility, or centralized embalming facility, who have direct contact with human remains. "Staff" as used in this rule includes persons who are directly employed by the establishment, facility, or service, as well as staff provided to the establishment, facility, or service by or through an employee leasing firm, temporary staffing firm, or similar business.

(3) For purposes of this rule human remains includes a body, a detached body part, or any body fluids in, taken from, or seeping from, human remains.

(4) For purposes of this rule direct contact includes touching the human remains whether or not the staff is wearing gloves or other protective gear. Direct contact includes contact with clothes being worn on the human remains.

(5) The course required by Section 497.162, F.S., shall be a course approved by the Board for at least 2 hours of continuing education credit in the communicable disease category under Rule 69K-17.0042, F.A.C., covering the basic elements of communicable disease risks and risk prevention and mitigation in the deathcare industry context. The course may be taken through use of pre-recorded DVD or video-cassette, or other type of audio, video, Internet, or home study course.

(6) All persons subject to Section 497.162, F.S., shall maintain a certificate of completion showing proof of meeting the communicable disease education requirement as a condition of employment with any establishment, facility or service regulated under Chapter 497, F.S.