New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Chapter I - State Sanitary Code
Part 14 - Food Service Establishments
Subpart 14-5 - Vending Of Food And Beverages
Personnel
Section 14-5.71 - Employee cleanliness
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Employees are to maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness and are to conform with good hygienic practices when working in food vending machine operations. Employees are to wash their hands and exposed area of arms thoroughly with soap and warm water before starting work, and as often as may be necessary to remove soil and contamination. Thereafter, employees are to wash hands thoroughly after using the toilet, smoking, sneezing, coughing, eating, drinking, or otherwise soiling their hands before returning to work. Employees are to keep their fingernails clean and neatly trimmed.
(b) Tobacco in any form is not to be used by employees while engaged in food vending machine servicing, or while washing equipment or utensils, or where its use will result in contamination of food, equipment or utensils.
