Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE
Part XXIII - Retail Food Establishments
Chapter 7 - Employee Health
Section XXIII-701 - General [formerly paragraph 23:031]

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XXIII-701

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024

A. All employees shall meet the requirements of Part I, §117. A, B of this title, Employee Health and Chapter 2, The Control of Diseases, of the State Sanitary Code. The employee shall report information to the person in charge about their health and activities as they relate to infectious diseases that are transmissible through food. The person in charge shall be responsible for complying with Part I, §117 of this title, and excluding the employee from the food establishment to prevent the likelihood of foodborne disease transmission.

B. All employees shall report to the person in charge any symptom caused by illness, infection, or other source that is:

1. associated with an acute gastrointestinal illness such as diarrhea, fever, vomiting, jaundice or sore throat with fever; or

2. a lesion containing pus such as a boil or infected wound that is open or draining and is:
a. on the hands or wrist, unless an impermeable cover such as a finger cot, or stall protects the lesion and a single-use glove is worn over the impermeable cover;

b. on exposed portions of the arms, unless the lesion is protected by an impermeable cover; or

c. on other parts of the body, unless the lesion is covered by a dry, durable, tight-fitting bandage.

C. The person in charge shall restrict employees from working with exposed food; clean equipment, utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles, in a food establishment or retail food store/market if the employee is suffering a symptom specified in Subsection B of this Section.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:4.

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