Rule 511-6-2-.06 - Employee Health and Safety(1) No person affected with any disease in a communicable form, boils, infected wounds, or sores, or while a carrier of a communicable disease shall work in any area of a tourist accommodation in any capacity in which there is a likelihood of such a person contaminating bedding and other surfaces with pathogenic organisms or transmitting disease to other individuals and no person known or suspected of being affected with any such disease or condition shall be employed in such an area or capacity. When there is reason to suspect that an employee has contracted any disease in communicable form or has become a carrier of such a disease, the employee shall be removed from the tourist accommodation premises; or his or her service is restricted to some area of the establishment where there would be no danger of transmitting disease.(2) Employees, other than clerical employees, shall thoroughly wash their hands and the exposed portions of their arms with soap and warm water before starting work, during work as often as necessary to keep them clean and after smoking, eating, drinking or using the toilet. Employees shall keep their fingernails clean. Employees shall maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness and conform to other good hygienic practices.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 511-6-2-.06
O.C.G.A. §§ 31-2A-6 and 31-28-5.
Original Rule entitled "Employee Health and Safety" adopted. F. Jul. 16, 2013; eff. Jan. 1, 2014, as specified by the Agency.