La. Admin. Code tit. 51 § I-117

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section I-117 - Employee Health

A. [formerly paragraph 1:008-1] No person known to be a case or carrier of a communicable disease, as defined in Part II, §101, in an infectious stage which can be transmitted through water, milk or other food materials, shall be employed as a food handler or permitted to work in any capacity in a manufacturing, processing or packing plant; in a food, drug or cosmetic plant; in any bakery or manufacturing confectionery; in a food salvaging or repackaging area; in syrup rooms, mixing areas, filling rooms, in an artificial ice or cold storage plant, or in the delivery or distribution of ice; in a dairy farm, transfer station, receiving station or milk plant; in a marine or fresh water animal food product establishment; in a game and or small animal slaughterhouse or meat packing plant; in a water treatment plant; in a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house, in a school, day care center, residential facility (as defined in Part XXI) in any capacity which might bring him into contact with other employees or pupils; in a retail food store/market; or in a food establishment; except where there is no reasonable possibility of disease transmission by such person.

B. [formerly paragraph 1:008-2] Any individual suspected of being a case or carrier of a communicable disease, as defined in Part II, §101, or who is a contact of or has been exposed to a communicable disease which can be transmitted through water, milk or other food or beverage materials shall submit to an examination by a licensed physician and/or to the collection of appropriate specimens as may be necessary or desirable in ascertaining the infectious status of the individual. Any such person who refuses to submit to such an examination or specimen collection shall not be permitted to work in the types of establishments listed in §117. A until he submits to such examination.

C. [formerly paragraph 1:008-3] Routine examinations and collections of specimens shall not be required.

La. Admin. Code tit. 51, § I-117

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, LR 27:1694, (October 2001), amended LR 28:1210 (June 2002).

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